Join our Early Years community of research and practice on 16th Feb in Birmingham for a day of learning and dialog. www.crec.co.uk/becera-ticke... #BECERA #EarlyChildhood #EarlyYears #EYFS #EarlyLearning

🚨FUNDED PhD STUDENTSHIPS in Transformative Humanities, Durham University. 🚨 📄 Tuition fee waiver, 3.5 year stipend. 📄 8 studentships available. ⁉️ Q&A session 10/11/25. ⏱️ Application deadline: 16/01/26. www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Anyone researching #inclusion in #earlychildhood ⬇️

If you weren’t able to join EECERA 2025 - stay in touch with and consider EECERA 2026 in Madeira 🇵🇹 #earlyyears #ecec

When: 17:00 – 17:45, Tuesday 26th August 2025 Where: Room G115, 1st Floor, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava Exploring the Pedagogy of Learning and Playing Outdoors: Questions of Purpose and Intention (Routledge, 2025), edited by Mart, Gessiou, and Waters-Davies EECERA #EECERA2025

Good morning from #EECERA2025 in Bratislava 🇸🇰 looking forward to meeting g delegates at tonight’s opening ceremony @eecera.bsky.social

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I had a great time in Erfurt @intfroebelsociety.bsky.social and love how our connections are being nurtured.

Congratulations to @crecuk.bsky.social MA graduates today! Enjoy 🎓😊

Delighted to be giving a keynote at the 14th Edinburgh Froebel Network & Froebel Trust Conference on 8th Nov 2025. #Froebel Booking is now open www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edinburgh-...

Amanda Norman Senior Lecturer (Early Years) @uniwinchester.bsky.social and co-author of the Alliance 4 Children’s new Power 2 Play report was at No 10 Downing Street yesterday to launch the charity’s campaign for greater investment in play. Find out more at bit.ly/469ETE0

Last call for CRECs learning circle…

My heart is full - she’s off to teach reception class at my first school; I have fond memories of Mrs Meakin my reception class teacher, the dumplings for school dinner, the enormity of assemblies! I love how CREC serves Birmingham Schools 😊 ♥️ #earlyyears #getintoteaching @crecuk.bsky.social

📄 New article in the EECERJ: How do pre-school teachers in Turkey make sense of emotional and behavioural disorder risk? Gamze Apaydın, Banu Karaahmetoğlu & Çığıl Aykut buff.ly/1d2DHcF #AcademicResearch #JournalArticle #ResearchFindings #NewResearch #EECERJ #EECERA

This is a fabulous piece of research and takes our early childhood methodologies into museums ⬇️ #creativemethodologies #earlychildhood

📄 New article in the EECERJ: Seven-year-old children’s learning opportunities when solving problems in a playful inquiry-based mathematics activity. Linn Flaten buff.ly/WXIHCy8 #AcademicResearch #JournalArticle #ResearchFindings #NewResearch #EECERJ #EECERA

Really interesting to unpick the details of Froebels words @helwasmuth.bsky.social - thanks to Jane too for hosting and adding such insightful reflections - love the human/ humane consideration @froebeltrust.bsky.social - see you all in Erfurt!

Read our guidance paper which foregrounds Froebelian practice-based research using one of the strands explored across three years by the Froebel Partnership. The complexity of play and its place in networks of developing learning is the focus of this paper. buff.ly/hMM3fAs

If you currently work with AFF and would like to access this draft resource and join the pilot please sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Over the past +12 months CREC - Centre for Research in Early Childhood have been conducting research on behalf of SCiP Alliance to inform a new resource to help educators support children of Armed Forces Families (AFF). This will sit alongside their current Thriving Lives toolkit for schools.

Join us this Thursday 19th June for a webinar with @helwasmuth.bsky.social, exploring the Froebelian concept of ‘freedom with guidance’ and what it means for modern day practice. Info and booking ↩️ www.froebel.org.uk/events/webin... #Froebel #EarlyYears #EarlyLearning #EarlyEducation

Last day for early bird tickets is today 02/06/25 ⬇️

♻️I am very excited, this Thursday 5th June is World Environment Day, and the theme for this year is Ending Plastic Pollution. ✏️Tag me in the post by Monday 9th June, in order to win one of the five copies. 🇬🇧UK followers only, can enter. #worldenvironmentday #beatplasticpollution

30% of children in the UK live in poverty. Nicholas Barr @lse-ei.bsky.social‬ @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social‬ argues abolishing the Two-Child Benefit limit is good policy not just for ethical reasons: investment in children will have a positive impact on economic growth @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social‬

Hurry! Last few days to get your early bird ticket. Early bird bookings are available until Monday 2nd June 2025 Early bird bookings up to 2nd June 2025 starting at £285; for full details visit here: buff.ly/anI14dg #EECERA2025 #EECERA #Bratislava

Make a cuppa, have a sit down, and read our latest newsletter: www.linkedin.com/pulse/crec-m... #CREC #EarlyYears #EarlyEducation #EarlyChildhood

Do you want to make an impact on the lives of children in Ireland? Early Childhood Ireland is recruiting a Press Officer (Local & Regional) to join our Policy, Advocacy and Campaigning team. Apply now 👇 buff.ly/ElgwBg6

📣 LAST CHANCE TO *WIN* £250 EQUIPMENT VOUCHERS FOR YOUR NURSERY 👶 CREC are running a survey to learn where families find Early Years activities in their area. they can nominate YOU to win fantastic equipment vouchers from Cosy! Find out more: buff.ly/xB7KivB @artscouncilengland.bsky.social

Phones have become an essential part of a teenagers' lives 📱 But excessive screentime has been linked with mental health issues, and social media platforms can open the door to online exploitation. We take a closer look at what can be done: www.childrenssociety.org.uk/what-we-do/b...

Very happy to recommend Sue’s online sessions - great for trainee teachers and ECTs ⬇️ will be recommending to @crecuk.bsky.social SCITT students.

🎓 “Amplifying children’s agency in schools” In her keynote, Professor Susan O'Neill (@ioe.bsky.social) will explore how Child-Led Participatory Action Research (CLPAR) repositions children as co-researchers, challenging traditional hierarchies in education. 🗓️ 24 June www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

⚠️ Cool PhD alert ⚠️ Fully funded PhD at @exeter.ac.uk assessing the potential for, and impact of, community-led research in the Isles of Scilly.

Used alongside our Reflection with Guidance toolkit, The Layers of Play helps you decide what you are observing & how you might support & extend the child’s development & learning. bit.ly/3EOYvCe Developed at @gnsfc.bsky.social with guidance and support from Professor Tina Bruce.

Tune into @lbc.co.uk about 8 am to hear me chat with @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social about Labour & Reform's welfare policies, the 2 child limit and disability cuts.

We're exhibiting at nasen LIVE 2025! Join us on 4th July 2025 at The Vox Conference Centre, Birmingham, for an unmissable SEND event! 🌟 Secure your ticket now: bit.ly/4bg4VGl #nasenLIVE2025 #SEND #Inclusion #Education #nasen #InclusiveEducation #edusky #SENCO #eduskyuk #DiversityMatters

Join us at the British Academy for our Summer Showcase 2025 on 20-21 June. See our funded researchers share their innovative social sciences and humanities research that is shaping the society we live in – and informing the one we want to create. Book your free tickets here: buff.ly/D7wxOYx

Are you ordering UK curriculum books from overseas? We now offer international ordering so that you can get our recommended children's books delivered to your country #edchat #teachersofx #kidlit schoolreadinglist.co.uk/internationa...

📆 Essential dates for your diary if you're exploring our SCITT course for September: buff.ly/bneq55L #SCITT #TeacherTraining #EarlyYearsTeacher #NewJob #BirminghamJobs #BirminghamTeacher #TrainToTeach #TeachFirst

I've published the next in my series of free webinars. This one is on 11th June and it's about adaptive teaching. Please share! Thank you. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...

And for some lovely examples of children's mathematical graphics in pretend play and other contexts, see www.childrens-mathematics.net

📄 New article in the EECERJ: Enhancing fundamental motor skills through active play: a systematic review and meta-analysis of educational contexts. buff.ly/oPcHKNc #AcademicResearch #JournalArticle #ResearchFindings #NewResearch #EECERJ #EECERA

Loved our Hay day yesterday 📚 ⛺️ 🍦 @hayfestival.bsky.social - shame we can’t manage the whole week (off to rummage round the online content) 🎧

Improved wellbeing, reduced inequality, quality education - alignment to the #SDGs will come naturally to most #earlychildhood researchers 😊

Great to see closer alignment with the UN SDGs! This new innovation from EECERA will allow tagging and sorting of published articles into relevant SDG categories 🌎

Lens 4 of our Reflection with Guidance toolkit asks, “How do we capture transformations, the impact on all actors, and the changes apparent over time?” Take a look at our case studies which demonstrate how to capture transformations for children, adults, practice and pedagogy here: bit.ly/3FJebqR

📄 New article in the EECERJ: Interprofessional collaboration in ECEC: a review of European countries with different levels of system integration. buff.ly/DMSS3Uc #AcademicResearch #JournalArticle #ResearchFindings #NewResearch #EECERJ #EECERA

Ethical research practices are so important and I’m proud of the work we do on our MA @crecuk.bsky.social to ensure this ethical code is lived out in practice:

📢 We are seeking additional content submissions to publish online on our Research Hub, alongside a special issue of Impact focusing on the safe and effective use of AI in education. 📅 Deadline for initial overview submission: 1st May More details here: https://shorturl.pulse.ly/mlewwyligo

Happy birthday to Froebel - and perfect that I’m spending today prepping for an exciting new publication with @froebelpartnership.bsky.social @sallycave.bsky.social @crecuk.bsky.social

📄 New article in the EECERJ: Corres-Medrano, Irune, Klara Smith-Etxeberria, Patricia Macía, and Alaitz Etxaniz. 2025. “The Role of Active Methodologies in the Socio-Emotional Development of Children at Risk: A Case Study in 3 Public Schools in the Basque Country.” buff.ly/TY2u69N #EECERJ #EECERA