Our latest post from our Early Years Blog: 'How can going for a walk in early childhood education and care be interconnected with rights and democracy?' to read in full, visit: Dr Alicia Blanco-Bayo Dr Jo Albin-Clark Karen Boardman DEYE, EHU, FCCT blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/earlyyears/how…

Read the latest blog by Nathan Archer here: ow.ly/4f2J50SfkMe

Play has an essential role in children’s educational lives and matters to their childhood, so why is it increasingly being marginalised? -- Dr Jo Albin-Clark and Dr Nathan Archer on the EERA Blog #EdSci #ECEC blog.eera-ecer.de/childrens-righ…

Bewildering the early childhood 'pioneers' Special Issue: Pedagogy, Culture & Society Sincere thanks to Jayne Osgood Dr Sid Mohandas Dr Jo Albin-Clark for the opportunity to work together on this. tandfonline.com/toc/rpcs20/32/4

Nathan Archer Carnegie Education Research and Enterprise at Leeds Beckett Montessori Global Education The International Montessori Institute 'Desire paths are alternative tracks.. In this paper I think with the metaphor of pathways and desire paths positioning an educator’s choice to practice Montessori pedagogy as an approach which wanders outside of mainstream qualifications and education' Nathan Archer 😍

😍New publication today Full article: Digitally doing Reggio: mobilising posthuman pedagogical knowledge co-creation with socially mediated performativities of early childhood education 📲tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

'The UK’s childcare costs are amongst the highest across developed countries, and we have nearly the lowest level of public spending on childcare across OECD (at 0.5% of GDP, against 1.7% in highest spending Sweden and Iceland).'

On These Magic Shores: exploring spaces for children’s play – in pictures theguardian.com/environment/ga…

It will take 8 mins to check out my latest research project with the fantastic Liz Clark June O'Sullivan OBE & the amazing children,staff & families of LEYF Nurseries - thank you University of Brighton youtu.be/OVSn8BwgdlI?si…

This ONS data on 'childcare accessibility' is interesting. ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati… However, I think these data are about availability/supply of places. Accessibility is not just proximity to home or parents' work, but also includes issues of affordability, equity and inclusion

“Babies and young children are not just small versions of older pupils; they require distinctive provision that meets their unique needs" @SalHogg highlights the need to avoid a #BabyBlindspot if early education is integrated into the school system buff.ly/461sjEP

Congratulations Mona Sakr and Dr Sara Bonetti - hugely important and much needed work!

More advertising is not going to be the answer to the recruitment and retention crisis in early years because it doesn't improve wages or conditions. I'm wondering what other actions they will take once they see this reality.

🎉 Today is historic! The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is now part of Scots law, making children's rights legally enforceable in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Let’s celebrate this huge milestone & thank all the children & young people who campaigned to make this possible. ❤️🛡️👏🏾

Reflections and research from the EY community. bit.ly/EYVoices Nathan Archer keynote speaker Will you be joining us?

Towards a just approach for knowledge exchange in early childhood education and care bera.ac.uk/?p=52113 via BERA

I am on the look out for sessional lecturers to support our growth. Looking for sessional lecturers to support across Early Childhood Studies, Placement visits, Early Years Lead apprenticeships and EYITT.

🗓️ Tomorrow is the first of our autumn webinars - register before it's too late to hear from our brilliant panel on Labour's plans for early years provision: bit.ly/3X4Suq4

PEDAL staff and PhD students recently published a paper which interrogates the concept of learning through play in different global contexts. A summary of the research and a link to the paper can be found here: pedalhub.net/resource-libra…

NEW: Today marks the release of a world-first study by Mitchell Institute mapping childcare access for 10 million children across nine countries. The study finds England to be one of the worst countries with 30% of people living in a 'childcare desert' 1/2 vu.edu.au/about-vu/news-…