JoAlbinClark
@joalbinclark.bsky.social
Early childhood education academic, enthusiastic posthuman theorist and research collaborator. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6247-8363
Did you know that every child has a right to play? Under Article 31 of the UNCRC, every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. Download the child-friendly UNCRC poster here:
The Right to Play - Play Scotland
All children have the Right to Play under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
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Guildford Nursery School's Froebel Festival is back! 📅 Sat 17 May 10am-12pm at Hazel Avenue & York Road. 🔨 See Froebelian principles in practice. 💰 It's free! Drop in for a short time or stay for the whole festival. 🥰 Bring the whole family. All are welcome. ☕ Refreshments will be available.
Tidy up time and children's rights 🚸 in early childhood @nathanarcher.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/billys...
Billy’s car at tidy up time: How children’s rights happen everyday in Early Childhood Education
Educators in early childhood and care (ECEC) working in schools and settings know how much young children appreciate those moments when you attend and attune your time and actions to what matters to t...
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Pleased to have contributed a chapter with @joalbinclark.bsky.social on children's rights and participation in this forthcoming book: us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/a-....
A Manifesto for Early Childhood
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How wonderful is this? 🌳 "..children partaking in the projects as local connoisseurs, with knowledge of their surroundings, formulating questions and enacting matters of concerns.." www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... beautiful thinking from 🙋 Teresa Elkin Postila & Christine Eriksson in
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Now this is a starter for an article that has me hooked 👌: "What difference might it make to frame relations between humans of various ages, such as the very young and ‘old/er’ adults, as intra-generational rather than inter-generational?" www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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📄 New article in the EECERJ: The impact of the ‘accelerated childhood’ culture in UK's ECEC: practitioners’ and policy makers’ views during a professional development course https://buff.ly/3CBpiRi #AcademicResearch #JournalArticle #ResearchFindings #NewResearch #EECERJ #EECERA
"With the emphasis on at-the-moment, the flat view of play fails to capture the broader spectrum of play experiences and their contribution to literacy development across time and space." 👌Chunhong Liu, Qinghua Chen, Limin Zhang and Angel M. Y. Lin and journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Come and do a funded PhD with me, Dr Laura Trafí-Prats @lala-trapra.bsky.social and Pinc College! Re-imagining Design for Critical Access in Museums and Cultural Spaces with Neurodivergent Youth www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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"Schooling today is steeped in a.. community of achievement... for example high performing, average, below grade level, under achieving, lack of growth ... have come to dominate the material and lived experiences" Really enjoyed this Lindsay Lush 👍 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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"inquiry requires even greater focus on the unthought relations constructed through capitalism, as well as those relations damaged by neoliberal values and actions" Gaile Cannella affiliationshttps://journals.sagepub.com/share/TC4HIU3G8YJTSDPPP5WA?target=10.1177/15327086241268023
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This looks good! Just published. Congratulations to Marissa McClure Sweeny and Mona Sakr and all chapter authors. Cracking range 📖
Postdevelopmental Approaches to Digital Arts in Childhood
This book deconstructs traditional developmentalist logic around children's engagement with digital media where the focus is on what the digital 'does to' child…
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How does policy influence teaching practices? How does inequality impact how children experience education? Hear @alicebradbury.bsky.social (@hhcp-ucl.bsky.social) reflect on the challenges facing early years and primary education at this Professorial Lecture: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/202...
Schools, policy and inequality | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society
Professor Alice Bradbury will outline her work on policy and inequality in early years education, focusing on how reforms have engendered cultures of accountability and datafication.
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Today is a day of love, and there is nothing we love more than children's rights! ❤️ 🎉 Under Article 31 of the UNCRC, every child has the right to play! Download the full child-friendly UNCRC poster here: https://buff.ly/40I9JR5
If you want to share a really special gift this #ValentinesDay, read to a child. It's an expression of love that will last a lifetime ❤️ @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social
Brilliant thinking from Victoria Jefferies here who wonders about the ethics and pedagogy of adventure in early childhood education "Where does their story start and mine begin? Whose adventure is education anyway?" @becerauk.bsky.social
BECERA@becerauk.bsky.social · last yr.Victoria Jefferies' main research interests are the pedagogy of adventure and practitioner voice, and she is today's guest poster in preparation for BECERA 2025 which is on next week in Birmingham UK. https://buff.ly/41hpBKU #BECERA2025 #EarlyChildhood #EarlyYears
📢 We are delighted to announce the launch of the latest publication in our Praxis series; Exploring the Pedagogy of Learning and Playing Outdoors: Questions of Purpose and Intention. Edited By Mehmet Mart, Georgia Gessiou and Jane Waters-Davies. 1/3
Exploring the Pedagogy of Learning and Playing Outdoors: Questions of Purpose and Intention
Focusing on the empirical evidence base for pedagogical decisions taken when children are playing and learning outside, this groundbreaking book examines the intention and purpose of children’s outdoo...
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I’m pleased to be joining colleagues in Bristol next month at the Early Education/ECHO branch event to explore ethical subversions in early childhood education. early-education.org.uk/branches/?br...
Early Childhood Matters 2025 #ECM2025 is out now. This edition explores what parents and other caregivers need for a #GoodStart. From the science of human connection to rebuilding villages of support, it includes ideas and current solutions. earlychildhoodmatters.online/issues/early...
Early Childhood Matters 2025 - Early Childhood Matters
We need to talk about care and what parents need for a good start. The needs of parents and caregivers of young children often go unseen and unheard in public life and policy. They face growing pressu...
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"..the nature of hope engages both a critical understanding and analysis of current social conditions ..the power dynamics leading to educational inequalities ..active participation in dialogical action toward liberation and humanization" 👌https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14639491241311656
Paulo Freire in ECE: Towards a critical understanding and alternative narratives - Yue Qi, Allison Sterling Henward, 2025
This article explores critical understanding and alternative narratives within early childhood education (ECE) by drawing on Paulo Freire's ideas. Building on e...
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📑 Our latest guest piece from upcoming BECERA 2025 presenters is: Who is listening to children's mathematics? by Elizabeth Carruthers and Maulfry Worthington. https://buff.ly/4hiNjMf #BECERA2025 #EarlyYears #EarlyMaths
Who is listening to children’s mathematics? — CREC
In this post Elizabeth Carruthers and Maulfy Worthington argue the importance of listening and noticing children’s ways of communicating their mathematical thinking.
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Parents have you been asked to hold your child for a blood test or health care test? We need your help 🏥 💉 We are gathering information about the impact of this on you and your child in a quick 5 min survey ⬇️ www.surveymonkey.com/r/holdingfor...
Enjoyed thinking from Maureen Lehto Brewster 😀 "Following can feel involuntary, but it consistently comes down to making a choice: to (not) relate, to (question what you) know, to (not) trust." journals.oslomet.no/index.php/re... +
View of On following and becoming a follower
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Time to do the last check of the final proofs of the new Edited book A Manifesto for Early Childhood. Here is a sneak peek of what’s to come of this amazing edited book. You can pre order yours here amzn.eu/d/inGc41y
"In the case of political child, this involves not measuring children's individual agency against ideas of adult agency and political participation.. it means opening up the political to previously overlooked and undervalued modes of existence" 👏Soern Finn Menning journals.oslomet.no/index.php/re...
View of Under the table
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"What if we lived in a world where children had sustainable possibilities to influence research, as part-takers and participants, in ways that cared for their matters of concern?" Great opening question 🙋 from Agnes Westgaard Bjelkerud and Anna Rigmor Moxnes journals.oslomet.no/index.php/re...
View of Re-turning the Child in Educational Research Methodology
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📑 Our newest guest piece from BECERA 2025 presenters; this time a CREC MA student, Kay Davey, with her article: "Political ideology and Early Years training: Using mood boards as an empowering research tool". #CREC #BECERA2025 #BECERA #EarlyYears #EarlyEducation #MoodBoards
Political ideology and Early Years training: Using mood boards as an empowering research tool — CREC
In this post, Kay Davey explores the ethical implications of discussing the impact of political ideology and how mood boards were used in her research as a method to empower and respect participants’…
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