Chloe Webster is a former practitioner and childminder with a wealth of experience in the sector.

Introduction

Part 1 - Explaining terms

Ainsworth

Anti-racist practice

Athey

Attachment theory

Bandura

Bavolek

Beach Schools

Belsky

Bourdieu

Bowlby

Bronfenbrenner

Bruner

Chomsky

Curiosity approach

Dewey

Dweck

Erikson

Forest Schools

Freire

Freud

Froebel

Goldschmidt

Gussin-Paley

Helicopter stories

Heuristic Play and Treasure Baskets

High/Scope

Hygge

In The Moment Planning

Issacs

Key person approach

Kohlberg

Laevers

Loving Pedagogy

Malaguzzi

Maslow

McMillan

Montessori

Parten

Pavlov

Pedagogy

Piaget

Pikler approach

Professional love

Reggio Emelia

Scaffolding

Schema Theory

Skinner

Slow Pedagogy

Steiner

Te Whriki

Trauma-informed practice

Treasure baskets

Vygotsky

Waldorf

Winnicott

Zone of Proximal Development

Part 2 - Applying these theories to practice

The importance of embedding theories/approaches that encapsulate the beliefs of the setting as a community

How settings can begin to incorporate and follow new beliefs/ideas/approaches

Staff training

Parental involvement

Challenges of embedding new theories and approaches

Benefits of adopting/embedding new theories and approaches to early childhood education

Behavioural implications of adopting new theories and approaches

How to write a policy on pedagogy

Questions for reflection

Conclusion