Positive Relationships: Professionalism - A guilty secret

Do you feel like a second mum at work? Should you be motherly towards the children in your care? How do the children's mothers respond to you as a nursery worker? These were just some of the issues raised in a four-year study that sought to explore: - nursery workers' views and experiences of being understood as professional - what constitutes 'professionalism' in early years settings. Conducted by the Institute for Policy Studies in Education, at London Metropolitan University, the study involved in-depth investigations in private, voluntary and state-run nurseries through repeat...