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New research is challenging our understanding of repeated patterns of action, or schemas. Dr Cath Arnold, consultant at the Pen Green Centre, looks at how we can refine our approach.
Making children feel secure and content is essential, but settings often have a narrow view of how this should be achieved - creating an environment of forced gaiety, for example, which although...
The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) published its annual report and accounts for 2007-2008 last week.
What is it like growing up with two languages, and how does it affect development? Ludovica Serratrice and Samantha Durrant address some common misunderstandings and provide the facts.
Supporting the physical development of children in their first year does not require specialist equipment, explains a new book by the Pre-school Learning Alliance
Picking up rhymes supported by physical actions seems to be innate in children. But how adults mediate is important for later literacy development, says Opal Dunn
Dr David Whitebread is a developmental cognitive psychologist and early years specialist, and a senior lecturer in psychology and education convenor in the Faculty of Education at the University of...
Islington has become the first local authority in England to adopt a policy to ensure that children experience and learn about risk through play.
The SSTEW scale has been developed to assess the quality of early childhood education and care. Denise Kingston and Professor Iram Siraj of the Institute of Education explain.
Local authorities around the country are clawing back money for unused free entitlement hours for three and four-year-olds, and telling nurseries to bill parents for the lost funding.