The Reflective Early Years Practitioner

Dr Elaine Hallet has been involved in educating children, practitioners, educators, teachers and students over a career of thirty-six years and during this time has developed an understanding of how to nurture, scaffold and support children’s and adults’ learning and professional practice through meaningful contexts. She has worked as an early years teacher, advisory teacher and leader in a range of schools and nurseries, as a lecturer and leader with students in further and higher education, teaching on a range of early years initial training, post-qualifying, undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral programmes and sector-endorsed professional awards in early years and integrated centre leadership. Elaine’s research includes, foundation degree graduates’ continuing professional development through work-based reflective learning, the development of professional identity, the role of graduate early years leaders in the leadership of learning. She is committed to continuing professional learning for development of professional practice and to supporting practitioners, educators and teachers on their reflective learning journeys of knowledge, understanding and discovery.  Elaine has recently retired from her role as Lecturer in Early Childhood at the Institute of Education: University College London. With a background in early years education and practice, Elaine is an established author, with a special interest in the education of young children and, practitioners, educators and teachers’ reflective continuing professional learning.

′The author offers opportunity to reflect upon experience and brings together reflective practice and work-based learning, aiming to support the professional growth of a reflective early years workforce′ -Karen Ward, Senior Lecturer in Early Years, Birmingham City University′An invaluable resource that will help you to reflect and evaluate practice, thus enhancing your effectiveness and enjoyment of your role′-Martine Horvath, Early Years Educator

• The Developing Early Years PractitionerBeing a Reflective Early Years Practitioner Work-Based Reflective LearningReflective Vocational ProgressionWork-Based Reflective Pedagogy Being a Reflective Student Reflecting upon Professionalism in the Early YearsReflective LeadershipReflective Learning JourneysContinuing Learning Pathways and Future ReflectionsReferencesIndex