Practitioners need to be sensitive to the tendencies that children exhibit in their learning and encourage those that will lead to independence, says Anne O'Connor The need to support the development...
Forging ahead into 2004, we've got a great issue of Nursery World for you this week, with both new and long-running features to help your practice and career development. Our 'project on a poster'...
The new Level 3 Early Years Educator courses could mean major changes to the way some trainers operate, says Karen Faux.
A landmark High Court case against the Government’s funding for special educational needs will be heard tomorrow.
Even very young children can recognise signs and labels and nurseries can build on this 'real life' reading. Jane Drake suggests ideas for developing early literacy skills. We may settle down to read...
New nurseries offering services that are integrated, child-centred and sensitive to local needs are winning in the popularity stakes. Mary Evans explains how While the growth rate in the early years...
The legacy of early years pioneer Elinor Goldschmied has been given new life in a film looking at her lasting influence on practice. By Dr Jacqui Cousins, Anita M Hughes and Dorothy Y Selleck
Gender is the timely subject for our special eight-page pull-out this week. Timely, because what has been accepted as good practice in this area now needs to be rethought and refined. In a climate...
(Photograph) - Four-year-old Megan Fowler of Craigiebarns Nursery in Dundee puts the finishing touches to her clay tern. Children at the day nursery have been playing their part in a project to...
In the final part of this series, Professor Tina Bruce and Jane Dyke explore Froebel’s ideas about encouraging self-discipline