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With Development Matters removed from both the Department for Education's website and the Ofsted inspectors' guidance, Lena Engel examines its history and asks what the implications are for practice.
The battle for Reception? Is this most crucial of years about curriculum or about skills/child development? In this Best Practice Focus, we consider the latest on the controversial Reception year...
Block play allows a child to mix creativity with mathematical problem-solving, says Anne O'Connor.
Young children need to learn about healthy foods while they enjoy eating them. Jean Evans hears how one setting does it.
Assumptions about twins need to be challenged, says Anne O'Connor.
Understanding Child Development. Linking Theory and Practice By Jennie Lindon
The many ways that young children and adults give and receive messages without using words, and their importance for secure, social relations, are explored by Maria Robinson.
We expect young children to learn moral behaviour, but does it come naturally to them? Penny Tassoni looks at theories of development and good practice in the nursery
Research linking them with preventing cot death has put the use of babies' dummies back under scrutiny. Annette Rawstrone hears both sides of the debate.
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...