Everton Nursery School and Family Centre: Tuning into Children's Play

If you get the chance to visit Everton Nursery School and Family Centre - I'd recommend that you go. I thoroughly enjoyed the tour of the nursery school and the centre; thanks to Lesley Curtis and everyone on the Everton team for being so hospitable and specifically to Andrea Vaughan and Jamie Wilson for sharing some very exciting practice around Treasure Basket and Heuristic Play (inside and out). You can download the PowerPoint for my keynote for the Tuning into Children's Play conference. Thanks, Gerry, for your post about what I said.


Here are the links to the video clips I used, and other references:

• Alison Gopnik 
• Stephen Pinker's book How the Mind Works
• Siren Films, The Wonder Year
• The Still Face Experiment
• Siren Films, Life At Two
• Peter Fonaghy's book Attachment theory and psychoanalysis
• Todd Risley's research on children's communication at home in the early years
• Leon Feinstein's research on the development of children from different social and economic backhrounds, Very Early Evidence
• Ken Robinson's RSA lecture, Changing Education Paradigms (including the section on divergent thinking)