1st Edition

Early Years Pedagogy for Social Justice The LEYF Model for Change

By June O’Sullivan Copyright 2027
264 Pages 8 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 8 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Early Childhood Education and Care sits at the centre of some of the most urgent challenges of our time, from poverty and inequality to social cohesion. Yet too often, early education systems reproduce these inequalities rather than disrupt them. This book argues that it does not have to be this way. Drawing on international research, neuroscience and decades of practice, Dr June O’Sullivan OBE... Read more

1. Social Justice in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)  2. The Pedagogy Cocktail: How to Mix a Social Justice Pedagogy  3. Leading the Social Justice Pedagogy  4. A Spiral Curriculum to Drive Social Justice  5. The Spiral Curriculum: Linking Learning to Social Justice for Every Child  6. The Enabling Environment (EE)  7. Harmonious Relationships (HR)  8. Safe, Fity and Healthy (SFH)  9. Home Learning  10. Multi-generational Community Approach  11. The Social Justice Leader  12. Anchoring Change using the ACT Model  13. Measuring What Matters: Quality as a Driver of Social Justice  14. Scaling What Works: Replication, Investment and System Change  15. A Final Word: Building Social Justice in ECEC

Biography

June O’Sullivan OBE is Chief Executive of LEYF, the UK’s largest childcare charitable social enterprise, with 43 nurseries across London. She continues to innovate while supporting others to replicate values-led, socially just models of early education.