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Teacher Professionalism During the Pandemic: Courage, Care and Resilience (2023)
Book
Day, C., Smith, H. V., Graham, R., & Athanasiadou, D. (2023). Teacher Professionalism During the Pandemic: Courage, Care and Resilience. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003391661

This insightful book uniquely charts the events, experiences and challenges faced by teachers during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic including periods of national lockdowns and school closures.

Research-based and evidence informed, this key title... Read More about Teacher Professionalism During the Pandemic: Courage, Care and Resilience.

Promoting Activity, Independence and Stability in early dementia and mild cognitive impairment (PrAISED): A randomised controlled trial (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Harwood, R. H., Goldberg, S. E., Brand, A., van Der Wardt, V., Booth, V., Di Lorito, C., Hoare, Z., Hancox, J., Bajwa, R., Burgon, C., Howe, L., Cowley, A., Bramley, T., Long, A., Lock, J., Tucker, R., Adams, E., O’Brien, R., Kearney, F., Kowalewska, K., …Masud, T. Promoting Activity, Independence and Stability in early dementia and mild cognitive impairment (PrAISED): A randomised controlled trial

Background Dementia is associated with frailty leading to increased risks of falls and hospitalisations. Interventions are required to maintain functional ability, strength and balance.

Design Multi-centre parallel group randomised controlled tria... Read More about Promoting Activity, Independence and Stability in early dementia and mild cognitive impairment (PrAISED): A randomised controlled trial.

Local Literacies in Early Childhood: Inequalities in place, policy and pedagogy (2021)
Book
Smith, H. V. (2021). Local Literacies in Early Childhood: Inequalities in place, policy and pedagogy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032052

This book contributes to current debates about the importance of early literacy and the different ways that literacy resources offer support to parents with young children. It sheds light on the impact of policy discourse and austerity measures on co... Read More about Local Literacies in Early Childhood: Inequalities in place, policy and pedagogy.

Inequitable interventions and paradoxical pedagogies: how mothers are ‘taught’ to support their children's literacy development in early childhood (2019)
Journal Article
Smith, H. V. (2019). Inequitable interventions and paradoxical pedagogies: how mothers are ‘taught’ to support their children's literacy development in early childhood. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 27(5), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293x.2019.1651971

At a time when neo-liberal policy agenda are resulting in many public services being taken away from families with young children, this paper draws on Basil Bernstein’s concepts of visible and invisible pedagogies to reveal how mothers receive ‘suppo... Read More about Inequitable interventions and paradoxical pedagogies: how mothers are ‘taught’ to support their children's literacy development in early childhood.

Cooking the books: what counts as literacy for young children in a public library? (2017)
Journal Article
Smith, H. V. (2018). Cooking the books: what counts as literacy for young children in a public library?. Literacy, 52(1), 31-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12121

At a time when government funding cuts mean that public libraries face an uncertain future and need to make sure they stay relevant to young users and their families, this paper explores what counts as literacy for young children in a public library... Read More about Cooking the books: what counts as literacy for young children in a public library?.