The UK’s recent race riots once again shows that racism still exists. Educators cannot look away. Great article by Hannah Betteridge on some things you can consider. nurseryworld.co.uk/content/opinio…

Many thanks to Pete Moorhouse for the guest blogpost Slow pedagogy at the workbench- looking at woodwork through a Slow lens. Photo credit: Pete Moorhouse alisonclarkinthemaking.wordpress.com/2024/08/16/ide…

"A key problem associated with datafication is that evaluations are supposed to provide ‘objective’ information, but they can never be neutral" Understanding datafication in Swedish ECEC 👏 Malin Benerdal and Magnus Larsson journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

"Doppelganger as method begins by locating doubles, finding that doubles of the child and teacher are created through the focus on data production in early childhood education" 👏Mandy Pierlejewski @SAGE_CIEC journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

"The features of critical agency, collective action and a recognition of the strengths of an agnostic pluralism discerned in this case study are, I believe, symptomatic of a maturing ECEC system." Clear as a bell writing from @NathanArcher1 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

if you are starting a teacher education course next week, then don't let anyone tell you that your accent or way of talking is improper, unsuitable, in need of modification, or symptomatic of unacceptable teaching. the way you talk is beautiful. 🩷 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"Education as a relational practice concerned with the whole child and her well-being should, in our thinking, be inscribed with this ethics of care" From anger to dreaming to real utopias: 👏 Diana Sousa, Peter Moss, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

📝NEW BLOG POST Storytelling in music education By Anna Mariguddi EHU | Education Read here: bera.ac.uk/blog/storytell…

Released today! A new title in our popular pamphlet series. For everyone who works with and supports young children. Free to download via our website: froebel.org.uk/training-and-r… #ECEC #earlyyears #earlyeducation #earlychildhood #Froebel

Applications are now open to the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Teacher Development Fund!! Grants up to £165,000 support arts organisations and schools to work together to develop arts-based approaches in primary. What's not to love? Do RT! Why not apply now? 👉phf.org.uk/tdf

Reception parents 📢 Have you seen our Parents’ Guide? It will tell you all about the different government tests your child will have to do as they go through primary school 👉 bit.ly/3gQlEVw

plymouth.ac.uk/research/educa… Adventures in Posthumanism seminar 2-3.30pm GMT 18th September See link for zoom info Maria Saari University of Oulu For anyone interested in fascinating research on sustainability and multi-species pedagogy All welcome

European Early Childhood Edu. Research Journal invites early career researchers, professionals and scholars to apply for the College of Reviewers. 20-25 positions available for 2025. The application deadline is 31-October-2024. Please see attached for more information, or visit buff.ly/3QVRaC2 #EECERA

✨Laura Trafí-Prats and I welcome abstracts for consideration in a special issue proposal for Children Geographies, titled ‘Un/Common Atmospheres and Young People’s Urban Lives’. Further info via this link file:///C:/Users/55123684/Downloads/CG_Special_issue_Atmospheres.pdf

One week left to submit your abstracts for the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, January 2025, in Edinburgh ecqi.hss.ed.ac.uk/en/

Huge congratulations to Victoria Jefferies, MA Education (Early Years) student, for having her blog "Sea state: rough, occasionally very rough, rarely smooth!" published by The British Association for Early Childhood Education 🎉Read it here: bit.ly/4gPVFv9

Starting school? Wow! There’s so much to take in… Read our Parents’ Guide to find out what your child will be tested on, from Reception onwards 👉morethanascore.org.uk/what-we-do/par…

nurseryworld.co.uk/content/opinio… Well said! concise article which raises the issues and provides links for further reading. Why is England only country to have paid twice to be part of this - hasn't reception baseline taught us anything?