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Dr. Elizabeth Wilson Carruthers

@elizabethc24.bsky.social

Scottish. Researcher early childhood, children's mathematics, children's play, teacher researchers. PhD Bristol University. Formerly Headteacher of a Maintained Nursery School. Love yoga, walking in the rain and Outlander. Live in Devon, England

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£100 for a banana: What Early Numeracy Really Tells Us Early numeracy isn’t the warm-up act. It’s the main event

£100 for a banana: What Early Numeracy Really Tells Us
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31.08.2025 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why do children play? Let the brilliant Alison Gopnik explain.
www.sirenfilms.co.uk/library/alison-gopnik-why-do-children-play/

#Play #Playmatters #earlyyears #SirenFilms
Early Education @alisongopnik.bsky.social

14.01.2025 14:29 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Just thinking about free play???

27.11.2024 10:51 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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"Rather than a purely verbal activity, multimodal approaches recognise how touch, gaze, gesture and movement are important ways that children (and adults) convey meaning and how this is mediated through ‘things’" Thoughtful approaches 😀Helen Lomax and Kate Smith journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

25.11.2024 12:42 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Early Years Building Professionalism Through Professional Associations and Unions. Volume 44, Issue 5 of Early Years

Proud to have a paper featured in this excellent Special Issue of Early Years Journal- Building Professionalism Through Professional Associations and Unions www.tandfonline.com/toc/ceye20/4... #EduSky #EarlyYearsSky

26.11.2024 07:35 — 👍 26    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 1
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Three-year old Aman drew several 'boat' hulls in the sand, adding a wavy line to the top of each. Having made a complex graphical sign by combining two concepts and signs, she pointed to one and said "boat-water".

27.11.2024 10:34 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Where is child-led play? I mean the kind with no adult agenda,
not a reductionist model. Just asking on behalf of all the children in the world.

27.11.2024 10:40 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Where is child-led play? I mean the kind with no adult agenda,
not a reductionist model. Just asking on behalf of all the children in the world.

27.11.2024 10:40 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1