Project News
On Thursday 15th March 2012, 150 delegates attended the end of project conference 'A framework for work with parents on early literacy development'. The keynote address was given by Professor Cathy Nutbrown, workshops were led by the 20 practitioners who have participated in the project.
The 20 practitioners have, in the past year, been working with the ORIM Framework and have shared their work with 200 practitioners and some 700 families.
For further details see the REALonline website at:
http://www.real-online.group.shef.ac.uk/
The picture shows the practitioners with Professor Cathy Nutbrown, Emeritas Professor Peter Hannon, Dr Julia Bishop
(all of the University of Sheffield) and Helen Wheeler (National Children's Bureau).
Nutbrown Review
Professor Cathy Nutbrown is to conduct an independent review for Government on early education and childcare qualifications. She will be considering how best to strengthen qualifications and career pathways in the foundation years. There will be a public consultation. Information on this, the remit and scope of the review, along with other ways in which people can get involved will be made available through the website, www.education.gov.uk/nutbrownreview
A Study of the Relationship between Media, Commercial Markets and Children’s Play in the UK between 1950 and 2011
Professor Jackie Marsh and Dr Julia Bishop's project aims to examine changes in the way in which media and commercial interests have influenced children’s play over the last 60 years in the UK.
During the 1950s-1970s, Iona and Peter Opie collected children’s street and playground games and rhymes, this project involves interviewing some of the Opies’ child contributors, now adults aged 40–65, about their memories of play and its relationship to media and commercial markets.
Social PARKS: Urban green-space as a focus for connecting communities and research
Dr Kate Pahl has collaborated on this project, conducting ethnographic research in Clifton Park, Rotherham and Victoria Park, Rawmarsh, to look at the ways in which parks support interaction and also how parks affect and change behaviour.
Writing in the Home and in the Street
Dr Kate Pahl collaborates on an investigation into everyday writing practices in three areas of Rotherham, East Herringthorpe, Rawmarsh and Ferham.