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Why is touch so important for babies and young children? Because it is linked to healthy physical and emotional development, Anne O’Connor explains
Understanding children’s schemas, or ‘patterns of behaviour and thinking’, enables practitioners to support them as they use them to deepen their learning, explain Professor Tina Bruce CBE, Dr Stella...
An equal opportunities policy is no longer a statutory obligation, but ensuring that everyone gets a fair chance is central to good practice. Babette Brown and Vicky Hutchin explain how.
In the first of a new series, Jan Dubiel considers the meaning of the characteristics of effective teaching and learning, highlighted in the Early Years Foundation Stage review
Adopting the dialogic approach to reading with a child will help parents, and practitioners, to advance the child's oral language. Joan Kiely explains the method and its importance.
Nicole Weinstein finds out how software developers are designing their child development programs to be less of a box-ticking exercise for practitioners
In the second part of his series exploring the revised Development Matters guidance, Dr Julian Grenier looks at the newly included terms ‘curriculum’ and ‘pedagogy’ and explains what they mean in the...
Do ICT and multimedia in the early years have positive potential, or are they a danger to development? Here, two experts make their case.
As concerns grow about the over-formalisation of Reception learning, Charlotte Goddard hears how some academies are protecting early years
Controversy over when reading and writing should be taught could persist under the revised framework.Jan Dubiel, national development manager for Early Excellence, reviews the essential principles.