All Outputs (8)

Participative rights in Welsh primary schools: Unpicking the policy rhetoric (2024)
Journal Article

This paper presents the findings from the initial stage of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project which examines the pedagogic practices that embed young children's participative rights in lower primary classrooms in Wales. An... Read More about Participative rights in Welsh primary schools: Unpicking the policy rhetoric.

Questioning ‘voice’ and silence: Exploring creative and participatory approaches to researching with children through a Reggio Emilian lens (2024)
Journal Article

There has been much debate around the ‘voice’ of the child in qualitative research. This paper contributes to these discussions by drawing on the philosophy of Reggio Emilia, which emphasizes dialogical encounters that recognize the value of children... Read More about Questioning ‘voice’ and silence: Exploring creative and participatory approaches to researching with children through a Reggio Emilian lens.

Constructing child participation in early years classrooms: An exploration from Wales (2024)
Journal Article

This paper addresses the research problem that arises from evidence that, despite supportive policy contexts, enactment of pedagogies that attend to young children’s participation rights in classroom settings is highly variable. We report our explora... Read More about Constructing child participation in early years classrooms: An exploration from Wales.

Belonging, community and capability: Listening to the voices of young children to realise process quality in early childhood curriculum enactment in Wales (2023)
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This paper addresses the problem of how to achieve process quality in early childhood education (ECE) in a manner that attends to young children’s views. Process quality, the interactional experiences of the child in ECE, is highlighted by the OECD a... Read More about Belonging, community and capability: Listening to the voices of young children to realise process quality in early childhood curriculum enactment in Wales.

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

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

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

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?.

Through a different lens: Exploring Reggio Emilia in a Welsh context (2010)
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In Wales, concerns about the perceived over-formalisation of young children's educational experiences led to the introduction of a Foundation Phase Framework for children aged three to seven years that advocates a more holistic, play-based approach.... Read More about Through a different lens: Exploring Reggio Emilia in a Welsh context.