http://nicktomjoe.brookesblogs.net Nick considers some Early Childhood Education and ITT issues Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:01:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In one short sentence, the authors of this report on EYFS sum up so much.   Here I am, in a cold study with the snow pelting down and the light fading,  struggling with what to say about Early Years and Health, and they give me the answer. Let them say it ... http://nicktomjoe.brookesblogs.net/2010/02/10/deep-understanding-is-more-important-than-superficial-coverage/ And I'm sure I will do so in due course. However I have to usher in a new year of postings with this link to the EYFS literature review that Maria Evangelou and colleagues from OUDES and Mary Wild and Georgina Glenny from the Westminster Institute have worked on together. Here's the ... http://nicktomjoe.brookesblogs.net/2010/01/07/eyfs-more-to-say/ I am writing this when any sensible, diurnal person would be long in bed - where, as a penitential exercise, the monks of La Grande Chartreuse are about to perform the 'reclaim the night' they have done since their inception.  But with a conference bid to complete tomorrow, and with ... http://nicktomjoe.brookesblogs.net/2009/12/09/the-landscape-of-traditional-tales/ I am no longer sure that the wolves were what was A l'envers in my previous post.  What often moves around I this story is not, of course, the wolf, who remains the familiar predatory, possibly sexual bzou (this link has a lot of detail but I'm unsure about all ... http://nicktomjoe.brookesblogs.net/2009/11/15/correction-and-addition/ I have two books in front of me as I write. One is the book I was going to write about – Sandra Beckett’s Recycling Red Riding Hood – the other (Rosa’s) is the movie companion for New Moon It strikes me that the relationship between Bella and the ... http://nicktomjoe.brookesblogs.net/2009/10/27/more-wolves-a-lenvers/ I really want to be writing about the Sandra Beckett book I'm reading, but instead, a brief word on the Cambridge Review. Not this one - tempting though it might be - but this one. A compare-and-contrast with the Rose review would be tempting if time-consuming, and would feel like Harry ... http://nicktomjoe.brookesblogs.net/2009/10/26/reviews/ More questions than answers in this post: a work in progress. The more I think of there really being chalk pits in Suffolk, the more I want to explore more deeply my assumptions about the universal mythic landscape. A sideline about a pub called "The Lime  Burners" and here is their ... http://nicktomjoe.brookesblogs.net/2009/10/11/suffolk-chalk-pits/ Just looking back at previous posts, notably this one and this, exploring notions of pedagogy in the early Years, I am struck by the poor structure of the new FS website. Look at this link. I had thought this would take me to the stuff it “used” to, about assessment in ... http://nicktomjoe.brookesblogs.net/2009/10/08/a-moand-and-some-useful-links/ [caption id="attachment_216" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Autumn"][/caption] A significant detail in Jacobs’ telling of Tom Tit Tot, especially since this story has a cognate in Rumplestiltskin that has rather that precedence over the English version, and according to a much earlier commentator, has much in common with a range of stories world wide ... http://nicktomjoe.brookesblogs.net/2009/09/19/i-got-away-to-a-place-in-the-wood-i%e2%80%99d-never-seen-before/ There was a time when I would have thought it impossible to be recommending, or even exploring, physical exercise as a good thing in Early Years. Ghosts of my own dire football sessions at Junior School and the humiliations of being so poor at the very skills PE teachers and ... http://nicktomjoe.brookesblogs.net/2009/09/09/196/