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...children have found themselves having to study at home, but is this a bad thing? Professor Jonathan Rix explores...We largely just go along with what the school decides our children should learn and with how this learning should happen. However, schools often have a narrow view of learning and how it can be achieved. Under everyday pressures, and drawing on a history of...

...Children and Family Centre (Medhurst, 2014). She interviewed the boys’ mother, family worker and new nursery worker, and found that pre-transition visits to the nursery with the boys and their family worker, had been valuable opportunities to listen to their needs and interests, to build continuity and address concerns. To extend their listening further the collective...

...researching the experience of children starting school in England has highlighted ways in which this transition could go as smoothly as possible so that the impact is a positive one...[Photos from Vicky Preece] In order to understand the experience of children, my study also looks at the experiences of those around them; their families, early years educators and teaching...

...children’s health for my doctoral research. Children's health is not as good as it could be or as good as they deserve. They have a right to good health. And it is up to the adults in their lives to do what they can to promote good health for children. This course brings together contemporary research and current knowledge about ......

...children was being placed ‘centre stage’. Today it can be hard to realise that care settings did not consider such issues to be equally as important as children’s physical health. As a consequence of Bowlby’s work, various policies and practices changed for the better, such as hospitals allowing parents to visit their sick children, which today is taken for...

...children are given enough autonomy when it comes to writing...Over the last three months the Craft of Writing team, (Debra Myhill and I, Becky Swain, Becky Coles and Sara Venner) have been recruiting schools to this new project. Funded by EEF and the RSA, it’s a partnership study between the OU, the University of Exeter and Arvon and a rare opportunity for deep,...

...Children’s misconceptions in primary science: a survey of teachers’ views’, Research in Science & Technological Education, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 79–96 [Online]. Available at dx.doi.org/10.1080/02635140120046240 (Accessed 16 May 2016). Vosniadou, S., Ioannides, C., Dimitrakopoulou A. and Papademetriou, E. (2001) ‘Designing learning environments to promote...