1st Edition
Using Evidence for Advocacy and Resistance in Early Years Services Exploring the Pen Green research approach
Preface: A review of the Pen Green Research Paradigm, Professor Colin Fletcher Introduction, Margy Whalley 1. Supporting children’s transitions within a nursery school, Julie Medhurst 2. Multiple Perspectives, Colette Tait & Penny Lawrence 3. Using Attachment Theory to inform practice in an integrated centre for children and families, Natasha Charlwood & Howard Steele 4. Polyvocal ethnography: making sense of practices, Cath Arnold & Carmel Brennan 5. Making Children’s Learning Visible: uncovering the curriculum in the child, Kate Hayward & Eddie McKinnon 6. Parent-to-Parent interviewing at Pen Green: voice, richness, depth, Eddie McKinnon 7. A Week in the Life of the Pen Green Centre: Mass-Observation comes to Corby, Eddie McKinnon 8. Localised ethnography, local advocacy and community development: touching, and being touched by, your community, Joanne Armstrong & Eddie McKinnon 9. Narrative Enquiry: the architecture of access, Kate Hayward 10. The voices of their childhoods: families and early years practitioners developing emancipator methodologies through a Tracer Study, Margy Whalley, Cath Arnold, Penny Lawrence, Sally Peerless
Biography
Eddie McKinnon is a researcher and workforce development advisor at the Pen Green Research Base, UK.
