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Kathy Sylva is professor of educational psychology at Oxford University. After a PhD in psychology at Harvard she moved to Oxford, where she wrote Childwatching at Playgroup and Nursery School, a book that questioned the dominant ideology of unbridled free play. This was followed by a series of influential reports on learning and play in the early years. She is specialist adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on Education and Skills. |
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| pre conference resources |
 Video clips and presentation slides from our previous pre conferences, are now available online.
Click here to view. |
CERUKplus is the only free database of current education and children’s service research projects in the UK. CERUKplus would like to include practitioner research undertaken as part of masters degree courses or levels 3 + 4 of the Teacher Learning Academy in 2010, and would like to hear from practitioners interested in doing so. We are committed to supporting teachers and lecturers in their research work and building connections between communities of practice. |
| research engaged schools |
 The contribution of research to school improvement has been a matter of considerable debate. It is widely argued that educational practice should be more evidence based, but it is acknowledged that this is not easy to achieve. |
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