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Learning & Development: Thinking - Part 1: With good reason
Nursery World,
20 February 2008
Understanding how young children think is crucial to good practice. In the first of a new series, early years consultant Marion Dowling explores why.
Photograph at Bushbury Nursery School by Joan Russell. There are some compelling reasons why children's thinking is so high on our early years agenda and why practitioners are urged to nurture and develop children's thoughts and ideas. The reasons derive from: - strong support from research evidence - imperatives in National Frameworks - increased insights from practitioners in their day-to-day work - the voice of children. Research evidence During the past 25 years, studies have recognised...
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