Blogs about: Early Years Education The Educational Debates
Early Childhood Literacy and Numeracy: Building Good Practice
wrote 4 days ago: This short book (Early Childhood Literacy and Numeracy: Building Good Practice, by Marilyn Fleer and … more →
The Kids Should See This.com: Not-made-for-kids videos for kids
wrote 1 week ago: This is pretty neat: “Not-made-for-kids videos for kids.” http://thekidshouldseethis.com … more →
Infant Swimming Resource
wrote 1 week ago: This really surprised me. And I’m curious: Infant Swimming Resource – Miles Self-Rescue … more →
Why Do Children Spin?
wrote 1 week ago: I just had this emailed on to me: Why Do Children Spin? May 22, 2013 The cure for boredom is curiosi … more →
Science education is founded on attitudes, learning strategies and skills
wrote 2 weeks ago: In a recent Studies in Science Education article, authors Eric M. Anderman , Gale M. Sinatra & D … more →
Inquiry-based learning
wrote 2 weeks ago: Still working on Gadzikowski (2013)… and still ignoring (and omitting) her notion of ‘ex … more →
The Scientific method as ECE curriculum
wrote 2 weeks ago: I mentioned this book yesterday (and I reiterate my dissatisfaction with the concept of ‘excep … more →
Children who succeed at science are very observant and curious
wrote 3 weeks ago: While I don’t really agree with the concept of ‘bright’, let alone ‘exceptio … more →
"Fragmentation and discontinuity ... demand the wisdom of more immediate perception, intuitive awareness and imagination"
wrote 3 weeks ago: Still working away at Parkins and Craig’s Slow Living… They also write: “Slow livi … more →
Slow living; "'the times' are ripe for a serious consideration of slowness"
wrote 4 weeks ago: I’m interested in what Wendy Parkins and Geoffrey Craig have to say about slowness (I’ve … more →
Call for Papers: Documentation, diversity, democracy – three interrelated aspects of Early Years Education
wrote 1 month ago: Early Years: An International Research Journal http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ceye20/current Since i … more →
"humans learn by observing and listening in on others as they collaborate in shared tasks"
wrote 1 month ago: “Rogoff et al. describe how humans learn by observing and listening in on others as they colla … more →
Interest-based Curriculum and Funds of Knowledge
wrote 1 month ago: Hedges, Cullen and Jordan point out: “Curriculum is a highly contested construct. In the case … more →
English Muffins (still sussing out bread science)
wrote 1 month ago: I’m still keen on doing bread from scratch with the kids – and learning more about bread … more →
Science education resource
wrote 1 month ago: Hmmm. the Hawkins Center website has resources… just checking them out: http://hawkinscenters. … more →
Nordic Childhoods and Early Education
wrote 1 month ago: “Cross-cultural study informs us through the juxtaposition of the familiar and the new, the kn … more →
Attachment theory...
wrote 1 month ago: According to Margaret S. Stroebe and John Archer: “By the close of the last century, attachmen … more →
'superficial happy endings'
wrote 4 months ago: There is an article I really like on children’s conflict that analyses a group of children … more →
explaining play
wrote 4 months ago: I mentioned this book already (Animal Play; Evolutionary, Comparative and Ecological Perspectives, E … more →
