Outputs (32)

Foundation Phase Teachers’ Understandings and Enactment of participation in school settings in Wales (2022)
Book Chapter

This essential textbook explores inclusive pedagogies by presenting theoretical viewpoints and research on everyday practices in early childhood education that affirm diversity in relation to learning, disability and culture. The authors consider... Read More about Foundation Phase Teachers’ Understandings and Enactment of participation in school settings in Wales.

‘Doing Reggio?’ Exploring the complexity of ‘curriculum’ migration through a comparison of Reggio Emilia, Italy and the EYFS, England (2022)
Journal Article

This paper begins a quarter of a century ago with the first visit to the UK of the Reggio Emilia exhibition ‘The Hundred Languages of Children’ and initial interest by some of the early education community in ‘doing Reggio’. Within the same period, t... Read More about ‘Doing Reggio?’ Exploring the complexity of ‘curriculum’ migration through a comparison of Reggio Emilia, Italy and the EYFS, England.

An exploration of FP teachers’ understanding of participation rights within Foundation Phase Classrooms (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Playful learning around the world (2021)
Book Chapter

The go-to textbook for everything you need to know about play! Covering ages 0-8, this book explores what play is, why it matters and where and how play happens. Taking you from start to finish on your course, it helps you: Think critically... Read More about Playful learning around the world.

Raising awareness of neurodiversity my lived experience of dyspraxia (2021)
Digital Artefact

Creativity within the foundation phase curriculum: A risky business? (2019)
Journal Article

Whilst creative behaviours are viewed as twenty-first century competencies [Davies, L.M., L.D. Newton, and D.P. Newton. 2017. “Creativity As a Twenty-First-Century Competence: An Exploratory Study of Provision and Reality.” Education 3–13, 879–891.],... Read More about Creativity within the foundation phase curriculum: A risky business?.

Children’s rights in early years education in Wales (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An exploration of the enactment of children's rights in Welsh Foundation Phase settings

Exploring the potential and challenges of utilising projects to embed creativity into the curriculum for young children (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

‘Words are bandied about but what do they mean?’ An exploration of the meaning of the pedagogical term “project” in historical and contemporary context (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Chicken. S (2015) ‘Words are bandied about but what do they mean?’ An exploration of the meaning of the pedagogical term “project” in historical and contemporary contexts, EECERA, Barcelona University, Spain, September 2015

What really works for the early years? Guidance for the Early Years Pupil Deprivation Grant Welsh Government: Cardiff (2015)
Report