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Category: Babies & Early Childhood (0-5)
Supporting Learning Through Play
11 December 2024
A Play Commission Submission by Dr Soizic Le Courtois, Manogya Sahay and Qiming Liu
Common elements approaches to support early childhood development
3 December 2024
PEDAL’s Prof Sara Baker, CEI’s Dr Stephanie Smith and Emma Cook from Department of Health and Social Care present: Common elements approaches to support early childhood development. In this workshop we hear about two projects using a common elements approach: the Department of Health and Social Care’s “Workforce Pilots”, and PEDAL’s Early Years Library for […]
Using young children’s perspectives in research and practice
3 December 2024
PEDAL staff present research which uses playful methods to elicit the perspectives of young children to better understand their experiences of school and hospital. Kuri discusses a research study titled ‘My Play Life: A Qualitative Study of Children’s Play in Bangladesh’ jointly undertaken by the BRAC Institute of Educational Development (BRAC IED) and PEDAL.
Innovative approaches to support language development and the home learning environment
3 December 2024
PEDAL's Prof Jenny Gibson presents her research findings that demonstrate the connections between a high-quality early language and communication environment in the home and children’s later school readiness and literacy outcomes in key stage 2.
Innovative ways to use technology to support parent-child interaction
3 December 2024
Rob Hughes presents Tandem - a ground-breaking app which uses AI to support active engagement between parents and children, and PEDAL's Eloise Stevens and Nesta's Lauren Liotti and Zhen Rao talk about PEDAL’s Playtime with Books programme.
Innovative approaches in the development of parenting support: Moving beyond manualised programmes
3 December 2024
PEDAL's Dr Beth Barker presents The Golden Threads project and Dr Caroline White talks about Invest in Play.
What is a common elements approach?
27 November 2024
This short animation explains what a common elements approach is, and why PEDAL are using it in our research.
A playful retrospective on the power of play for young children and children living in contexts of conflict and crisis
27 November 2024
In his keynote, Paul Frisoli playfully reflects on the last 5 years of The LEGO Foundation funding in humanitarian settings.
What is book sharing?
19 November 2024
As part of PEDAL's Playtime with Books project, we created two videos for our YouTube channel that explain what book sharing is, how to do it, how it benefits children and what it might look like.
The Oxford Brain Story: Embedding an understanding of the importance of the early years
22 October 2024
In this keynote, Louise Dalton presents her programme of work entitled the Oxford Brain Story.