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Understanding Quality and Success in Early Years Settings: practitioners' perspectives

Dr Elise Alexander

This project aims to examine practitioners’ understandings of quality and success in the context of their particular settings, the effects of these understandings on the children with whom they work and the implications for training and professional development.

This project is supported by ESRC Research Grant ESRC RES-061-23-0012. (01/01/07-31/12/08)

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Kindergarten in Common:  Early Education in England and the USA, 1850-1975

Dr Kristen D. Nawrotzki

This project is a revision and extension of  doctoral thesis. Drawing upon Daniel T. Rodgers's Atlantic Crossings model of transnational intellectual landscapes, it offers a transnational historical analysis of the kindergarten and related ECE in England and the USA from 1850 to 1975.

This project is funded by a 2007/08 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship (01/09/07-30/07/09)

The Voice of the Child: Ownership and Autonomy in Early Learning

Sue Robson and Hiroko Fumoto with Professor David Hargreaves
The project is investigating the attitudes and practices of early childhood practitioners in relation to the development of children's personal and social and cognitive (thinking) skills within the context of the current demands of the Foundation Stage curriculum

This project is supported by the Froebel Research Committee of the Incorporated Froebel Educational Institute (1/1/06-31/12/08)