Working with Babies and Children

Professor Cathy Nutbrown is Head of the School of Education at the University of Sheffield, where she teaches and researches in the field of early childhood education. Cathy began her career as a teacher of young children and has since worked in a range of settings and roles with children, parents, teachers, and other early childhood educators. Cathy is committed to finding ways of working 'with respect' with young children, and sees the concept of quality in the context of what it means to develop curriculum and pedagogy in the early years with the ambition of working in a climate of 'respectful education'. She established the University of Sheffield MA in Early Childhood Education in 1998 and a Doctoral Programme in Early Childhood Education in 2008. In 2010 she contributed to the Tickell Review of the Early Years Foundation In June 2012 she reported on her year-long independent review for government on early years and childcare qualifications (The Nutbrown Review). She is Editor-in-Chief of the SAGE Journal of Early Childhood Research and author of over fifty publications on aspects of early childhood education. Ann Clare, PhD is an Early Years Foundation Stage consultant working for Trafford Children and Young People's Service. Ann originally qualified as a secondary school English teacher, before studying for her MA in Early Childhood Education whilst running a small nursery. She also has experience of working as an area manager for a private day nursery chain, and has been an assessor for the Early Years Professional Status. After working for several years in another North West local authority Ann decided to conduct her own research with children under the age of three in out of home care settings, as part of her journey towards gaining her PhD at the University of Sheffield. Ann now supports students studying for their MA in Early Childhood Education at the University of Sheffield. Her main area of interest within the field of Early Years is babies and young children under the age of three. She has written two articles for an early years magazine on this subject, and this is her first book.