Empowering Play in Primary Education - 1st Edition - publication Day!! Many thanks ⁦Paul Ramchandani⁩ ⁦Sara Baker⁩ JFlutter⁩ ⁦Dr James Biddulph MBE⁩ ⁦Dr. Neil Gilbride⁩ ⁦Stephen Kilgour⁩ ⁦Lenka Janik Blaskova⁩ ⁦Luke Rolls⁩ 🙏 routledge.com/Empowering-Pla…

So excited!! In this chapter, myself and Dr James Biddulph MBE unpack the role of play in #leadership and leadership development and it's importance when taken into the account #adultdevelopment and #complexity of schools!

She'll be joined by PEDAL's Sara Baker, Professor of Developmental Psychology and Education and Dr Stephanie Smith, a senior research specialist at the Centre for Evidence and Implementation Centre for Evidence and Implementation Learn more about our speakers and book your tickets at buff.ly/3y76TK6

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What do education experts want to see from the curriculum review led by Prof Becky Francis? ✏️ Emphasis on children's agency when learning, says Dominic Wyse. Read more: theguardian.com/education/arti…

Thought-provoking piece today The Washington Post with links to our Global Executive Function Initiative Proud to be involved with these researchers questioning the paradigm.

I was at the Cog Dev Society conference this March when I heard a series of talks that kinda blew my mind - from Dana Miller-Cotto Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social and others, finding shortcomings in tests that measure some of the most famous skills in psychology -- executive function. wapo.st/3WZ9HRQ

I support so much of Labour’s education strategy so far. However, I’m disappointed with the composition of the Francis curriculum review panel. It seems to be top-heavy on Academy representatives and omits experts on several key areas e.g. Early Years/Subject specialists.

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I’m recruiting a research assistant to help collect data in Durham (UK), for a cross-cultural ESRC New Investigator grant aimed at developing culturally grounded tool innovation measures in children across different cultural contexts - please share jobs.ac.uk/job/DJM961/res…

With the latest expansion to childcare rolling out this week, it is more vital than ever that the coming year sees the introduction of a comprehensive workforce strategy to recruit, retain, recognise and reward the talented early years professionals at the heart of the sector.

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…

Again, there’s no good evidence that smartphone bans fix the things we’re all worrying about, and on their own they do nothing to prepare young people for the digital world ahead of them. We need to focus much more on building digital literacy skills theguardian.com/education/2024…

Re-sharing this book edited by Aimee Durning MBE and PEDAL's Paul Ramchandani and Sara Baker as there was lots of interest at the #PEDALConference2024 📚 routledge.com/Empowering-Pla…

✨New Global Executive Function Initiative's (GEFI) recommended practices for selection, adaptation, and administration of EF performance-based tasks and for processing, evaluating, reporting, and interpreting data that these tasks yield. Download here: gefi.stanford.edu/gefi-resources

Starting a #PhD? You need to read this article about: The care and maintenance of your adviser/supervisor. Download the Nature article on this topic here. buff.ly/2PKIX7V #PhDchat #PhDforum #postgrad #VitaeCon2024

🚨Postdoc Application due: Nov 15. The IES Equity in Early Education (E3) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program trains the next generation of scholars to conduct research toward equitable, impactful, and sustainable early childhood care and education systems. Stanford Graduate School of Education Stanford Center on Early Childhood

🚨We are hiring! Assistant rank faculty position in promoting learning, broadly defined, in early childhood. Details: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/4947… Deadline: Oct 21. Join me and my colleagues Stanford Graduate School of Education Stanford Center on Early Childhood

🚨 We've extended our deadline for the E3 Postdoctoral Fellowship to December 1st! More info here: earlychildhood.stanford.edu/postdoc