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If you are happy and you know it…

On November 24, 2017 By Contemplating ChildhoodsIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

hat does it mean to be “happy”? What do children need to be happy? And is it important to be happy all the time?

Sorting through the rubbish

On November 17, 2017 By Contemplating ChildhoodsIn Uncategorized2 Comments

Is our pedagogy with young children becoming ‘worn out’?  Do we need to think about ‘upcycling’ it?

The not so secret lives of children

On November 10, 2017November 10, 2017 By Contemplating ChildhoodsIn Uncategorized4 Comments

Is it okay for photographs, videos and documentaries of young children to be distributed via the Internet, social media and television?

What (not) to wear

On November 3, 2017November 3, 2017 By Contemplating ChildhoodsIn Uncategorized5 Comments

How do we support young girls in making decisions about how to dress and the sort of image they want to portray to the world?

Teaching in the great outdoors

On October 27, 2017October 27, 2017 By Contemplating ChildhoodsIn Uncategorized2 Comments

I believe in using ‘the outdoors’  not only to support but enhance learning

Climbing up the Faraway Tree – recognising working-class children’s values and assumptions

On October 20, 2017 By Contemplating ChildhoodsIn Uncategorized3 Comments

I can remember being sneered at by my English teacher at the beginning of secondary school because I shared the fact that I liked to read Enid Blyton.

The lucky ten thousand

On October 13, 2017 By Contemplating ChildhoodsIn Uncategorized2 Comments

What opportunities are you going to take to support the children you know in being part of the ‘lucky 10,000’?

Is it me you’re looking for?

On October 6, 2017October 7, 2017 By Contemplating ChildhoodsIn Uncategorized4 Comments

My firstborn child made the transition into primary school last September. He had attended a pre-school and been supported, both by them and myself, to prepare for his move to school.

Unicorns or uniforms?

On September 29, 2017 By Contemplating ChildhoodsIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Like many young children in England, my niece started school this month.

Making the leap

On September 22, 2017September 22, 2017 By Contemplating ChildhoodsIn Uncategorized12 Comments

Last week, I was chatting to a mum whose little boy had just made the transition from the Foundation Stage into Key Stage One;

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We are Polly Bolshaw and Jo Josephidou. We both lecture at universities in the UK in the discipline of early childhood.

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