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...on the premise that effective leadership will mean improved outcomes for children’s care, learning and development. We take the view that leadership is the concern of all practitioners and not the exclusive domain of one individual, the designated leader. Stacey (2009) notes that while good leadership is key to a team’s success successful leaders are dependent on the rest of the team. From this perspective, leadership can......

...care – it’s nothing to do with me brigade’. This disinterest chimes with some recent primary phase research by Dobson and Stephenson (published in the UKLA Journal Literacy) and not only does it represent a clear cause for concern, it calls for action. Young people can feel distanced from the act of writing, particularly if teachers retain too strong a grasp on the...

...adult and this raises a question: how do children, who are generally thought to be less skilled and knowledgeable than adults, acquire such a complex system at such a young age? Early learning centre [Young child kissing pregnancy 'bump']Language learning certainly begins early. At 35 weeks old, babies can already distinguish between different vowel sounds. That is not 35...

...adult researchers and gatekeepers, and young people as participants can hide how young people feel about participating in research. In this short video we present a reflexive researcher approach to achieving effective ongoing assent/consent working with children and young people. It identifies different reflexive considerations for adult researchers as a continuous...