All Outputs (3)

Can you hear me? Problematising the enactment of UNCRC Article 12 in Welsh early years classrooms, exploring the challenges of ‘children’s voice’ (2023)
Journal Article
Chicken, S., & Tyrie, J. (2023). Can you hear me? Problematising the enactment of UNCRC Article 12 in Welsh early years classrooms, exploring the challenges of ‘children’s voice’. International Journal of Children's Rights, 31(2), 301-325. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-31010001

This paper explores teacher enactment of the UNCRC Article 12, a child’s right to participate and give their view within the context of Welsh early years settings (children aged 3-7). A rights-based perspective is adopted in which children are positi... Read More about Can you hear me? Problematising the enactment of UNCRC Article 12 in Welsh early years classrooms, exploring the challenges of ‘children’s voice’.

‘Doing Reggio?’ Exploring the complexity of ‘curriculum’ migration through a comparison of Reggio Emilia, Italy and the EYFS, England (2022)
Journal Article
Chicken, S. (2023). ‘Doing Reggio?’ Exploring the complexity of ‘curriculum’ migration through a comparison of Reggio Emilia, Italy and the EYFS, England. Global Studies of Childhood, 13(4), 322-340. https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106211068041

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.

Creativity within the foundation phase curriculum: A risky business? (2019)
Journal Article
Chicken, S. (2020). Creativity within the foundation phase curriculum: A risky business?. Education 3-13, 48(6), 733-745. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2019.1646298

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?.