Did you know that every child has a right to play? Under Article 31 of the UNCRC, every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. Download the child-friendly UNCRC poster here:

Guildford Nursery School's Froebel Festival is back! 📅 Sat 17 May 10am-12pm at Hazel Avenue & York Road. 🔨 See Froebelian principles in practice. 💰 It's free! Drop in for a short time or stay for the whole festival. 🥰 Bring the whole family. All are welcome. ☕ Refreshments will be available.

Tidy up time and children's rights 🚸 in early childhood @nathanarcher.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/billys...

Pleased to have contributed a chapter with @joalbinclark.bsky.social on children's rights and participation in this forthcoming book: us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/a-....

How wonderful is this? 🌳 "..children partaking in the projects as local connoisseurs, with knowledge of their surroundings, formulating questions and enacting matters of concerns.." www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... beautiful thinking from 🙋 Teresa Elkin Postila & Christine Eriksson in

Now this is a starter for an article that has me hooked 👌: "What difference might it make to frame relations between humans of various ages, such as the very young and ‘old/er’ adults, as intra-generational rather than inter-generational?" www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

📄 New article in the EECERJ: The impact of the ‘accelerated childhood’ culture in UK's ECEC: practitioners’ and policy makers’ views during a professional development course https://buff.ly/3CBpiRi #AcademicResearch #JournalArticle #ResearchFindings #NewResearch #EECERJ #EECERA

"With the emphasis on at-the-moment, the flat view of play fails to capture the broader spectrum of play experiences and their contribution to literacy development across time and space." 👌Chunhong Liu, Qinghua Chen, Limin Zhang and Angel M. Y. Lin and journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Come and do a funded PhD with me, Dr Laura Trafí-Prats @lala-trapra.bsky.social and Pinc College! Re-imagining Design for Critical Access in Museums and Cultural Spaces with Neurodivergent Youth www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgr...

"Schooling today is steeped in a.. community of achievement... for example high performing, average, below grade level, under achieving, lack of growth ... have come to dominate the material and lived experiences" Really enjoyed this Lindsay Lush 👍 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

"inquiry requires even greater focus on the unthought relations constructed through capitalism, as well as those relations damaged by neoliberal values and actions" Gaile Cannella affiliationshttps://journals.sagepub.com/share/TC4HIU3G8YJTSDPPP5WA?target=10.1177/15327086241268023

This looks good! Just published. Congratulations to Marissa McClure Sweeny and Mona Sakr and all chapter authors. Cracking range 📖

How does policy influence teaching practices? How does inequality impact how children experience education? Hear @alicebradbury.bsky.social (@hhcp-ucl.bsky.social) reflect on the challenges facing early years and primary education at this Professorial Lecture: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/202...

Looking forward to jumping in link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Brilliant read from Lush 😃 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The child’s right to play. The IPA USA 50th Anniversary White Paper. ipausa.org/wp-content/u...

Today is a day of love, and there is nothing we love more than children's rights! ❤️ 🎉 Under Article 31 of the UNCRC, every child has the right to play! Download the full child-friendly UNCRC poster here: https://buff.ly/40I9JR5

If you want to share a really special gift this #ValentinesDay, read to a child. It's an expression of love that will last a lifetime ❤️ @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social

Brilliant thinking from Victoria Jefferies here who wonders about the ethics and pedagogy of adventure in early childhood education "Where does their story start and mine begin? Whose adventure is education anyway?" @becerauk.bsky.social

📢 We are delighted to announce the launch of the latest publication in our Praxis series; Exploring the Pedagogy of Learning and Playing Outdoors: Questions of Purpose and Intention. Edited By Mehmet Mart, Georgia Gessiou and Jane Waters-Davies. 1/3

I’m pleased to be joining colleagues in Bristol next month at the Early Education/ECHO branch event to explore ethical subversions in early childhood education. early-education.org.uk/branches/?br...

Early Childhood Matters 2025 #ECM2025 is out now. This edition explores what parents and other caregivers need for a #GoodStart. From the science of human connection to rebuilding villages of support, it includes ideas and current solutions. earlychildhoodmatters.online/issues/early...

"..the nature of hope engages both a critical understanding and analysis of current social conditions ..the power dynamics leading to educational inequalities ..active participation in dialogical action toward liberation and humanization" 👌https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14639491241311656

📑 Our latest guest piece from upcoming BECERA 2025 presenters is: Who is listening to children's mathematics? by Elizabeth Carruthers and Maulfry Worthington. https://buff.ly/4hiNjMf #BECERA2025 #EarlyYears #EarlyMaths

Parents have you been asked to hold your child for a blood test or health care test? We need your help 🏥 💉 We are gathering information about the impact of this on you and your child in a quick 5 min survey ⬇️ www.surveymonkey.com/r/holdingfor...

Enjoyed thinking from Maureen Lehto Brewster 😀 "Following can feel involuntary, but it consistently comes down to making a choice: to (not) relate, to (question what you) know, to (not) trust." journals.oslomet.no/index.php/re... +

Time to do the last check of the final proofs of the new Edited book A Manifesto for Early Childhood. Here is a sneak peek of what’s to come of this amazing edited book. You can pre order yours here amzn.eu/d/inGc41y

"In the case of political child, this involves not measuring children's individual agency against ideas of adult agency and political participation.. it means opening up the political to previously overlooked and undervalued modes of existence" 👏Soern Finn Menning journals.oslomet.no/index.php/re...

"What if we lived in a world where children had sustainable possibilities to influence research, as part-takers and participants, in ways that cared for their matters of concern?" Great opening question 🙋 from Agnes Westgaard Bjelkerud and Anna Rigmor Moxnes journals.oslomet.no/index.php/re...

📑 Our newest guest piece from BECERA 2025 presenters; this time a CREC MA student, Kay Davey, with her article: "Political ideology and Early Years training: Using mood boards as an empowering research tool". #CREC #BECERA2025 #BECERA #EarlyYears #EarlyEducation #MoodBoards

📄 New Special Issue of the EECERJ is out now; you can read it here: https://buff.ly/4aAvENw #AcademicResearch #JournalArticle #ResearchFindings #NewResearch #EECERJ #EECERA

The UK government is seeking evidence on short term actions to stabilise the SEND system which is currently experiencing increased demand, protracted waiting times and increased pressure on schools and local authorities. Submit your evidence here: https://buff.ly/3DUswzC

Play and storytelling are the natural ways we connect, share, and learn about each other. We were delighted to partner with Generations Working Together on the Intergenerational Play and Storytelling toolkit: https://buff.ly/4g5PWiZ

Teachers! Tonight at 5pm. #phdchat #phdsky #teaching #BERA @julianamandra.bsky.social

"Data are not neutral. Data have power in knowledge making apparatuses, both qualitative and quantitative. How much do you have? Where and how did you get it? Where do you keep it? How do you protect it?" 💽 Great provocation from Susan Cannon journals.oslomet.no/index.php/re...

"We live in a world populated by ‘stuff’. Our schools are filled with resources that have a significant part to play" 👌 A lovely read from Katherine Evans journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Are you interested in free professional development? Take a look at our Reflection with Guidance, a Froebelian tool for developing practice & transformation - a FREE package for early years settings that promotes wellbeing & transformations. Find out more at: bit.ly/409EVJh #Froebel #earlyyears

Hi everyone! An update! The deadline for abstracts was extended to January 31st. Please consider submitting your work to participate in the conference - we need you and your exciting ideas about how to make education better!!!! 🦄🌈✨🤩

Loads more thought provoking commentary in this editorial in RERM, check out this; . journals.oslomet.no/index.php/re...

"What can children teach us about politics, we asked, and how can the child become more than an object of policies?" What a question! Congratulations 👌 to Anne Beate Reinertsen, Camilla Eline Andersen and Ann Merete Otterstad journals.oslomet.no/index.php/re...

Great to see our Department of Learning and Leadership, @ioe.bsky.social research featured in this article. Professor Rachael Levy and I investigated digital technology in UK and South Korean #EarlyChildhoodEducation settings. Many thanks to our Korean colleagues for hosting us in Seoul! 🇬🇧🇰🇷

Check out the call for papers in Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology (RERM) journals.oslomet.no/index.php/re...

Call for Participants - can you help? Governing Board Chairs/Headteachers/CEOs for doctoral study focus 'An exploration of the relationship between the chair & the executive leader in the English state school system.' Detail on image #UKEd #UKEdGovs LINK app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/lincoln/a-...

Join the Froebel Trust for a day of practical workshops and inspiring talks from Professor Dame Cathy Nutbrown, Dr Stella Louis and Jane Whinnett. Learn about a Froebelian approach to early childhood education. Saturday 29 March 2025 More info: https://buff.ly/3BiZ5q0

"..how we can create the conditions for early childhood educators to “read hard, think hard and write hard”—to dig deep, and to go deeper (St. Pierre, 2019) without dismantling a sense of self.." Nice 😊 Veronica Lynn Maclean journals.uvic.ca/index.php/jc...

Cardboard boxes lying around? Read Alex's brilliant blog on the open-ended, loose parts potential of the humble cardboard box. Unleash creativity & endless play possibilities! Read it at: www.playscotland.org/the-humble-c... #Froebel #EarlyYears #EarlyChildhood #PlayMatters #EduSky #EarlyYearsSky

"This means leaving space for those ideas that may arrive, a radical openness of the undecidable spaces of anticipation that cannot be foreclosed. It is a failure of care not to wait for the new arrival" Really enjoyed this 👍Sheena Vachhani and Emma Bell www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We have learnt so much over the last year working with amazing young people, parents and professionals to develop a symbol based version of the rights- based standards and prep sheet. Thank you to everyone 👏👏 especially Children in Hospital Ireland and Inclusion Ireland 🙏🙏

"We asked authors to choose an object and bring its infinite relations to life" 🌏 A joy to be part of with my pal @julieovington.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/gred20/c...

" ..We do not explore the concepts by classifying them, but rather by using the concept of rhizome to think with in relation to the content of the selected articles." Enjoyed how Juliette Boks-Vlemmix is creative 🖌️ with lit review journals.oslomet.no/index.php/re...