Let's Listen
Young Children's Voices Network (YCVN), Dr Cathy Hamer and Lucy Williams
Let's Listen: Young children's voices: profiling and planning to enable their participation in children's services is designed for practitioners to use in settings, this book uses the themes and principles of the EYFS and the YCVN Listening Cycle.
The book is also useful for local authorities and Children's Trust boards to use in mapping listening, and participation of young children in shaping children's services Mapped against Hear by Right participation standards.
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Listening as a way of life
A set of eight leaflets on a range of topics, containing details of research, practice and methods that work with young children from birth to eight.
Download the leaflets below.
- An introduction to why and how we listen to very young children by Alison Clark
- Listening to Young Disabled Children by Mary Dickins and Lucy Williams
- Listening to babies by Diane Rich
- Supporting parents and carers to listen: a guide for practitioners by Julie McLarnon
- Are equalities an issue? Finding out what children think by Nicky Road
- Listening and responding to young children's views on food by Ann-Marie McAuliffe with Jane Lane
- Developing a listening culture by Lucy Williams, produced by the Early Childhood Unit
- Leadership for listening by Mary Dickins
Listening to Young Children: The Mosaic approach
Alison Clark and Peter Moss, third edition 2017
The Mosaic approach offers a creative framework for listening to young children's perspectives through talking, walking, making and reviewing together.
This book explores how the Mosaic approach has been adapted, as offers case studies that will encourage practitioners to use the framework in their own setting.
Listening to Young Children will be of interest to policy makers, practitioners in nurseries, children's centres, pre-schools and schools and residential settings.
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Spaces to Play: More listening to young children using the Mosaic approach
Alison Clark and Peter Moss, 2005
Following on from Listening to Young Children: The Mosaic approach, this is an accessible guide to using the ground-breaking Mosaic approach to explore with young children their understanding and views on the use of outdoor space.
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