Threads of Thinking

Cathy Nutbrown is President of Early Education and Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. Her research over the last 30 years, has focussed on young children’s learning and work with parents to support young children’s literacy development.  She won an ESRC Award for Research with Outstanding Impact on Society and a Nursery World Lifetime Achievement Award. She is author of over 150 publications including Early Literacy Work with Families (with Hannon and Morgan, Sage, 2005), Early Childhood Educational Research (Sage, 2019), and Home Learning Environments for Young Children (with Clough, Davies and Hannon, Sage, 2022).

Praise for the previous edition:′Cathy Nutbrown is able to discuss difficult theoretical issues with a lightness of touch and to illustrate those issues with clear observations from children. Accessibility is combined with depth. The scope of the book is comprehensive but detailed. She covers most of the early education issues of the day in ways that will encourage professionals to develop a more coherent and meaningful pedagogy than exists at the present time′ - Chris Athey

• PART ONE: YOUNG CHILDREN LEARNING Thinking about Young Children Learning Some Questions about Schemas PART TWO: CHILDREN′S PATTERNS OF LEARNING Consistency, Continuity and Progression in Young Children′s Learning Schemas as Consistent Patterns of Behaviour: Studies of Three Children PART THREE: SCHEMAS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING Children′s Developing Understanding of Mathematical and Scientific Ideas Patterns of Literacy Nourishing Children′s Thinking through Stories PART FOUR: IMPLICATIONS FOR EARLY EDUCATION A Curriculum for Thinking Children Assessment for Learning Working with Parents