4. Principles

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Reflective Activities

• To reflect on the moral purposes of education
• To consider whether children are being supported to become active learners
• To review TLRP’s principles on knowledge, prior learning, pedagogy and assessment
• To review TLRP’s principles on engagement, relationships and informal learning
• To consider recent government policies on education

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Further Reading

Overview

For more the TLRP research see:

James, M. and Pollard. A. (2006) Improving Teaching and Learning in Schools, London: Teaching and Learning Research Programme. (Available at www.tlrp.org)

For an extended academic review of the principles and international commentaries see:

James, M. and Pollard, A. (2012) Principles for Effective Pedagogy. International Responses to Evidence from the UK Teaching and Learning Research Programme, London: Routledge.

On and what is needed in ECEC in countries wishing to improve children's lives and future prospects see Starting Strong III:

http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/startingstrongiii-aqualitytoolboxforearlychildhoodeducationandcare.htm

For those wishing to consider the quality of practice in their own setting we recommend:

Siraj, I., Kingston, D., and Melhuish, E. (2015) Assessing Quality in early Childhood Education and Care: Sustained shared thinking and emotional well-being (SSTEW) for 2-5 year-olds provision, London: Trentham Books.

Media files

• Professional Learning Networks

Related articles

• Early years curriculum
• Schemas and planning

Useful links

• Effective Pre-School, Primary & Secondary Education (EPPSE) Project
• Early Intervention: the next steps
• Hedges et al, Early Years Curriculum: Funds of Knowledge as a Conceptual Framework for Children’s Interests
• Funds of Knowledge
• Brodie, Learning Stories
• Karabon, They’re lovin’it: how preschool children mediated their funds of knowledge into dramatic play
• Cultural Capital
• Tickell, The Early Years report
• Early Years Foundation Stage Framework
• Development Matters

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Diagrams and Figures

• Figure 4.1 Ten Principles of effective teaching and learning