Studying Early Years

Studying Early Years

Studying Early Years

Preparing those who work with our youngest and most receptive learners to be competent practitioners and reflective professionals is the most important
challenge in Education. These young minds and tiny hands deserve the best that a professional
community can provide, yet for many years provision for them, and the many dedicated people who work with them has lagged behind. It is encouraging to see, at last, the stimulating shift in policy towards the
early years sector and rapid change. It is exciting also to be part of a movement bringing the insight of the academy, the gathered observations of our
research community and the accumulated ‘best practice’ of those in the vanguard of early years education together in work based courses. This volume sets out to gather these elements in an attractive and
approachable way, for the student, the policy maker, the parent and the teacher. It draws extensively on our experience at Kingston University’s School of Education developing work-based learning for early years
practitioners.

Anne Rawlings