Acknowledgements

Our acknowledgements are a list of professionals, parents and organisations who have contributed to this module or who have made it possible.

Faculty Production Team at the Open University:

Jackie Musgrave and Sarah Burton, Academic leads and Katy Thomas, Project Manager

OpenLearn Create Production Team at the Open University

Caroline Steggles, Senior Project Manager; Michael Hackett, Digital Development Editor and Anna Page, Senior Producer

Open University in Scotland:

Page Munro, Contract Manager and other colleagues who have supported this work

Media Production:

Michael Grant, Director of Raw Film Productions

External Contributors:

Max Alexander, Play Worker

Pamela Anderson, Parent

Liz Auld, Early Years Practitioner (retired)

Joanne Gibson, Early Years Speech and Language Therapist

Dr Elizabeth Henderson, Early Years Specialist working in a Scottish Local Authority

Emma Watt, Project Worker, Multi Cultural Family Base,

Organisations:

Multi-cultural Family Base, Cowgate Under 5s Centre, The Yard Edinburgh, Down's Syndrome Scotland, City of Edinburgh Council, Clifton Hall School, Fort Early Years Centre, and Scottish Book Trust.

The Scottish Government:

Carole Campariol-Scott and Halle Brown at Scottish Government

The steering group

Pilot Participants

The participants in the pilot of the module who gave their time and offered valuable feedback to improve the module

Special thanks

The Module Team would also like to acknowledge and thank all the children whose lives and experiences have informed our learning. We have not included children’s voices directly in the module. We hope that their experiences speak through our accounts of their lives but we are aware that we are not hearing their voices directly. The case studies and stories about children are mostly fictional (based on our experiences) or are anonymized with the exception of Eilidh. Thank you to parents who have enabled us to describe their children’s lives.

Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders. If any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources:

Collection image: Diverse group of four children are playing together at the park: © Olga Enger/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Module image: Hands of child and adult: © Expensive/Shutterstock

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Figure 1.4: Mason, M. and Rieser, R. (1994) Altogether Better (from special needs to equality in education), Charity Projects/Comic Relief.

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Figure 2.4: Casey, T. and Robertson, J. (2019) Loose Parts Play Toolkit, Edinburgh, Scottish Government [Online].

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Figure 2.7: Mother Natured, https://mothernatured.com/

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