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Learning & Development: Babies - Right start
Nursery World,
13 February 2008
A project that boosted learning outcomes for babies also helped nursery staff make great strides in their practice, as explained by Donna Luck, Claire Stevenson and Veronica Lawrence, who devised the project.
But babies don't do anything, do they?' can be a familiar lament and commonly held view among inexperienced practitioners. In fact, babies are competent learners from before birth. Recent brain studies have established that a rich and complex set of connections are made in the early minutes, hours, days and weeks of a baby's life. Babies have even been described as 'the most powerful learning machine in the...
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