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Sharing the ambition: Play and parental interest in Scottish early years education

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

This report provides evidence from the Sharing the Ambition project, which investigates parents' perceptions of early years education in Scotland, what their priorities are in terms of settings'...

Covid-19 school closures, working from home and family challenges: A novel solution

Covid-19 presented a set of challenges for UK universities, and where ‘business as usual’ was expected, staff working practices intensified. The impact of this has not been equal, with the...

Contemporary curriculum debates in early childhood education and care

With the revised Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) becoming statutory, the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) special interest group arranged a webinar series to provide space for wider...

Emotions and Moral Learning in Early Childhood Education

What is moral learning at the early stages of education? What role do the emotions and social interaction with caretakers, teachers and peers play in children’s early stages of moral...

BERA Blog post #1,000

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

It hardly seems possible, six years after its creation of the BERA Blog, that this is its one-thousandth post. The brainchild of BERA CEO Nick Johnson, in 2015 the BB set out to provide...

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

This series celebrates our one-thousandth BERA Blog post by republishing some of our favourites from among the posts that have proven most popular since the blog began in 2015. The collection both...

How can books hit the sweet spot between the reader and the story character?

Why do some stories resonate with readers more than others? It is probably because they minimise the distance between the reader and the story character. The classic reader-response theory...

The impact of Covid-19 on children in early years settings

In April 2020, senior managers from Kids Planet Day Nurseries[1] approached researchers at York St John University to explore the impact of Covid-19 on the young children in their care. Two...

Examining the impact of Covid-19 on children’s centres in Bristol

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Lessons for policy, practice & promoting life chances in the early years

The impact of Covid-19 on early years settings & their staffing decisions

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This report shares insights into how Covid-19 impacted upon on the early years workforce in England, Wales and Scotland during the first year of the pandemic, focusing on how pre-existing issues...

The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health & learning of young children

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This report investigates the impact of Covid-19 on the mental health and learning of young children through surveys and interviews with early years practitioners, and interviews with parents....

Taking notice: Children’s observation skills in nature as a basis for the development of early science education

‘In that earliest childhood, we get those invisible glasses through which we look at the world all our lives, and these glasses color our views.’ Lainšček, 2020 This beautiful quote from...