Establishing Professional Contact

I was able to establish professional contact with Professor Elizabeth Ann Wood-Academic Staff-School of Education-The University of Sheffield England and MS Silke from Singapore a member of the Asia Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC). I contacted Professor Wood through email and she was kind enough to return my email. Professor Wood sent several of her papers and books to gain knowledge about ECE issues such as:

(ii) Chapters in books

Wood, E. (2015) Beyond Ethics in In D. Yamada-Rice and E. Stirling (eds) Visual Methods with Children and Young People: Academics and visual Industries in Dialogue. Palgrave.

Wood, E. (2015) Interpretivist research in play: the illumination of complexity, in S. Farrell, S.L. Kagan, and E.K.M. Tisdall (Eds) The Sage Handbook of Early Childhood Research, London Sage. 291-303.

Wood, E. (2015) ‘I wonder why our dog has been so naughty?’ Thinking differently from the perspective of play, S. Robson and S. F. Quinn (Eds), Routledge International Handbook of Young Children’s Thinking and Understanding. Abingdon, Routledge . 19-30

Wood. E. (2015) The capture of play within policy discourses: a critical analysis of the UK frameworks for early childhood education. J.L. Roopnarine, M. Patte, J.E. Johnson and D. Kuschner (Eds) International Perspectives on Children’s Play. Maidenhead, Open University Press.

Wood, E. (2014) The play-pedagogy interface in contemporary debates, in E. Brooker, S. Edwards, M. Blaise (Eds) The Sage Handbook of Play and Learning. London, Sage.

Wood, E. (2013) Contested concepts in educational play: a comparative analysis of early childhood policy frameworks in New Zealand and England. In J. Nuttall (Ed) Weaving Te Whāriki: Ten Years On. New Zealand, NZCER Press.

Articles in Journals 

Yahya, R. and Wood, E. (2016) Play as third space: bridging cultural discourses between

home and school,  Journal of Early Childhood Research. DOI: 10.1177/1476718X15616833

Wood, E.  and Hedges, H.  (2016) Curriculum in Early Childhood Education: asking critical

questions about content, coherence and control. The Curriculum Journal, DOI: 10.1080/09585176.2015.1129981

Nuttall, J., Thomas, L. and Wood, E. (2013) Travelling policy reforms: re-configuring the work of early childhood educators in Australia. Special Issue on ‘Global transformations and educational work: Remaking the idea of a teaching occupation.’ Globalisation, Societies and Education.

Nuttall, J., Edwards, S., Lee, S., Wood, E., & Mantilla, A. (2013) The implications of young            children’s digital-consumerist play for changing the kindergarten curriculum. Cultural  Historical Psychology, 2, 54-63.

Wood, E. (2014) Free choice and free play in early childhood education – troubling the

discourse. International Journal of Early Years Education. 22, 1. 4-18. doi:10.1080/09669760.2013.830562

Fisher, J. and Wood, E. (2012) Changing educational practice in the early years     through

            practitioner-led action research: an Adult-Child Interaction Project.

            International Journal of Early Years Education, 20:2, 114-119.

Wood, E. and Hall, E.  (2011) Drawings as spaces for intellectual play, International Journal

            of Early Years Education, 19: 3-4, 267-281. 

I joined the social network of ARNEC and Ms Silke and I became friends and I am reading and watching her articles on this sight. I now receive the monthly e-news flash from ARNEC.

National Association for the Education of Young Children is the organization and website that I have chosen. This organization provides strong educational advice, awareness, and support of childhood education I would like to know what my colleagues think of this sight and have any of you used it in any of your previous classes.  

National Association for the Education of Young Children (http://www.naeyc.org/).