BERA Research Commission 2019–2020: Competing discourses in early childhood education and care
Tensions, impacts and democratic alternatives across the UK’s four nations
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BERA Research Commission 2019/2020 – Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care
The first BERA Research Commission was Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): Tensions, Impacts and Democratic Alternatives across the UK’s four jurisdictions, led by Dr. Guy Roberts-Holmes (UCL, Institute of Education), Dr. Jan Georgeson (University of Plymouth) and Dr. Verity Campbell-Barr (University of Plymouth).
This Commission was comprised of ten core members – 6 established academics from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and 4 Early Career Researchers; one from each of the four countries to work alongside established academics.
The objectives of this Research Commission were to critically analyse and question the deep influence of GERM’s (Global Education Reform Movement, Sahlberg, 2011) impacts upon the four different early childhood education and care policy jurisdictions of Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England.
During the course of the commission’s work, they held four one day seminars with established academics, early career academics, and local practitioners within each of the four countries.
Competing discourses in early childhood education and care
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) has developed to meet different aims to encourage children’s holistic development; embed attitudes consistent with lifelong learning; facilitate...
A Curriculum for Early Years
This one-day seminar was the third in a series of interactive events comprising the BERA Research Commission 2019 – 2020, Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC):...
Collaborative Agency: policy enactment or resistance?
Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email conference@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. This one-day seminar is the second part of the BERA...
Collaborative Agency event presentations – 28 August 2019
Presentations Stories of agency, advocacy and activism in early childhood education Nathan Archer PRESENTATION Professional Collaborative Agency Verity Campbell-Barr and Jan...
School Readiness: Why and for whom?
This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to be added to a reserve list or be informed about similar events BERA Research Commission event The early...
Content associated with this project
Pedagogical space(s): The benefits of collaboration with forest school providers for the early years classroom teachers and pupils
In 2022, the Foundation Phase in Wales will be replaced by the new Curriculum for Wales (CfW), a national framework for children aged between three and 16. One of its aims is to provide...
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Professionalism for those working with the under-threes: a Northern Irish perspective
Northern Ireland has an established early childhood education and care (ECEC) system with some strengths, such as near-universal participation in pre-school education. However, for children under...
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Children’s design and co-creation of classroom space as a Spatially Democratic Pedagogy
Imagine a classroom of four-to-five-year-old children designing and co-creating their classroom spaces. They are not passive recipients of the spaces created for them, but architects, product...
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Competing discourses in early childhood education and care
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) has developed to meet different aims to encourage children’s holistic development; embed attitudes consistent with lifelong learning; facilitate...
Editorial: Competing discourses in early childhood education and care
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) has developed to meet different aims to encourage children’s holistic development; embed attitudes consistent with lifelong learning; facilitate...
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Affective sociomaterialisation: An inquiry into early childhood subjectivities within outdoor early childhood provision in Scotland, UK
In my doctoral research I focus on alternative outdoor early childhood provision in Scotland. I foreground a sociomaterial approach to understand how young children’s subjectivity, related to...
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BERA Research Commission 2019–2020: Competing discourses in early childhood education and care
Tensions, impacts and democratic alternatives across the UK’s four nations
BERA Research Commission 2018/2020 – Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care
The objectives of this Research Commission are to critically analyse and question the deep influence of GERM’s (Global Education Reform Movement, Sahlberg, 2011) impacts upon the four different...
A Professional Workforce for the Early Years? Policy, practice and sector responses
This Seminar is the 4th in the Research Commission, Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): Tensions, Impacts and Democratic Alternatives across the UK’s four...
A professional early childhood workforce for a peaceful, shared and sustainable Northern Ireland
This presentation will explore some of the historical policy developments that have shaped the current Early childhood workforce in Northern Ireland and will propose the radical structural reform...
School readiness, early years education and neoliberal subjectivities
This symposium built upon BERA’s research commission, Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care, and critically explored why and how early childhood education and care (ECEC)...
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A Curriculum for Early Years
This one-day seminar was the third in a series of interactive events comprising the BERA Research Commission 2019 – 2020, Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC):...
Collaborative Agency: policy enactment or resistance?
Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email conference@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. This one-day seminar is the second part of the BERA...
Research Commission: Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care
Following the recent call for proposals, we are delighted to announce the first award for a Research Commission to run in 2019. Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC):...
The competing discourses of school readiness
BERA’s 2019–2020 research commission on the early years – entitled Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): Tensions, Impacts and Democratic Alternatives across the...
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