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‘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.

“It makes me angry. REALLY angry”: Exploring emotional responses to climate change education (2022)
Journal Article
Jones, V., & Whitehouse, S. (2022). “It makes me angry. REALLY angry”: Exploring emotional responses to climate change education. Journal of Social Science Education, 20(4), 93-120. https://doi.org/10.11576/jsse-4551

Purpose: Climate change education and the emotional consequences this topic raises in the classroom has been largely ignored by researchers. This paper considers the emotional response to climate education in a primary classroom (age 9-10 years) in E... Read More about “It makes me angry. REALLY angry”: Exploring emotional responses to climate change education.

The classroom as a complex adaptive system (CAS): Credible framing, useful metaphor or mis-designation? (2022)
Journal Article
Knight, B. (2022). The classroom as a complex adaptive system (CAS): Credible framing, useful metaphor or mis-designation?. International Journal of Complexity in Education, 3(1),

This paper discusses the legitimacy of framing school classrooms as complex adaptive systems (CASs) with the aim of advancing discourse about the extent to which systems within education can be usefully designated as complex. Perspectives differ on c... Read More about The classroom as a complex adaptive system (CAS): Credible framing, useful metaphor or mis-designation?.