Settings-Based Research
Examples of research happening in Bristol early years settingsBack, J. and Joubert, M. Early Mathematics
Researcher(s): Back, J. and Joubert, M. Institution: University of Plymouth and University of Bristol Status: Findings Published Back, J. and Joubert, M. (2009) Reflecting on practice in early years’ settings: developing teachers’ understandings of children’s early...
Carruthers, E. and Worthington. M. Early Mathematics
Researcher(s): Carruthers, E. and Worthington. M. Institution: Status: Findings published Carruthers, E. and Worthington. M. (2009) An early years CPD initiative for mathematics: the power of ‘grassroots’ learning. Proceedings of the British Society for Research into...
NFER: Narrowing the Gap
Researcher(s): Springate, I., Atkinson, M., Straw, S., Lamont, E. and Grayson, H. Institution/Organisation: NFER Status: Findings published Springate, I., Atkinson, M., Straw, S., Lamont, E. and Grayson, H. (2008). Narrowing the gap in outcomes: Early Years (0-5)....
Back, J. and Joubert, M. Early Mathematics
Researcher(s): Back, J. and Joubert, M. Institution: University of Plymouth and University of Bristol Status: Findings Published Back, J. and Joubert, M. (2009) Reflecting on practice in early years’ settings: developing teachers’ understandings of children’s early...
Carruthers, E. and Worthington. M. Early Mathematics
Researcher(s): Carruthers, E. and Worthington. M. Institution: Status: Findings published Carruthers, E. and Worthington. M. (2009) An early years CPD initiative for mathematics: the power of ‘grassroots’ learning. Proceedings of the British Society for Research into...
NFER: Narrowing the Gap
Researcher(s): Springate, I., Atkinson, M., Straw, S., Lamont, E. and Grayson, H. Institution/Organisation: NFER Status: Findings published Springate, I., Atkinson, M., Straw, S., Lamont, E. and Grayson, H. (2008). Narrowing the gap in outcomes: Early Years (0-5)....
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Mathematics
- Seeing the Maths
- Mathematical engagement
- Developing how children see themselves as mathematicians?
- A mastery approach
- Encouraging maths in free flow
- The adult role in supporting children’s independent mathematical thinking
- Developing children’s mark making
- The adult role in supporting children’s mathematical enquiry
- Supporting parents with children’s maths
- Variations in assessment with different assessment criteria
- Developing mathematical language and reasoning
- Encouraging independent problem solving
- Independent problem solving
- Mathematically informed data
- Mathematical play
- Inside v. outside mathematical provision
- Data handling and mathematical representations
- (Re)configuring quality: From a hegemonic framework to story telling
- Mathematically rich environments
- Speedwell Nursery School and Children’s Centre Allotment Project
Birth to Three
CLL
- A Bristol Childminder’s Research: Autonomy with Food
- Children’s social literacies
- Pretend play and the cultural foundations of mathematics
- Dialogue and Participation in Young Children
- Crescent moon and star: Working towards intercultural approaches in early childhood music education.
- The genesis of mathematical semiosis in early childhood.
- Infant Feeding Practices among Somali-born women now resident in Bristol
- Visible Thinking: the Performance Arts Club
- Early Years Setting promoting Community Cohesion
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