Mrs CATHERINE GRIPTON's Outputs (2)

Gender as an issue of curricular (in)justice: A review of national early childhood education curriculum documents in England from 1996-2021 (2025)
Journal Article
Lehner-Mear, R., Dixon, K., Xu, Y., Gripton, C., & Cooker, L. (in press). Gender as an issue of curricular (in)justice: A review of national early childhood education curriculum documents in England from 1996-2021. The Curriculum Journal,

In England, gender is currently a controversial issue, with debates in social and political spheres increasingly impacting educational policy. Simultaneously, scholarship on gender in Early Childhood Education (ECE) advocates more gender-sensitive pe... Read More about Gender as an issue of curricular (in)justice: A review of national early childhood education curriculum documents in England from 1996-2021.

Navigating ‘the bumpy road’ from research to practice: improving the impact of research on spatial reasoning practice with young children (2025)
Journal Article
Gripton, C., Bates, K. E., Gifford, S., Gilligan-Lee, K. A., Williams, H. J., Borthwick, A., Williams, A. Y., Lancaster, A., & Farran, E. K. (2025). Navigating ‘the bumpy road’ from research to practice: improving the impact of research on spatial reasoning practice with young children. Early Years, https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2025.2463666

Ensuring that knowledge generated through research has an impact on early childhood education practice is a familiar and complex challenge. This article reports on an attempt to bridge the research-practice divide in one area of mathematics, early sp... Read More about Navigating ‘the bumpy road’ from research to practice: improving the impact of research on spatial reasoning practice with young children.