Recruitment and Retention of Early Years and Childcare Practitioners in Private Day Nurseries
(Conclusions drawn from findings of fieldwork carried out as part of a Ph.D. research)
Published by TACTYC: Training, Advancement and
Co-operation in Teaching Young Children (2007)
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Response to Dr. Jillian Rodd’s Discussion Paper
Leadership: an essential ingredient or an optional extra?
Published by TACTYC: Training, Advancement and
Co-operation in Teaching Young Children (2007) at http://www.tactyc.org.uk/pdfs/response_Rodd.pdf
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Retention of Early Years & Childcare Practitioners in Private Day Nurseries: Is Love enough?
British Education Research Student Conference, Birmingham, 2006
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Social Justice in Workspaces Issue 7 Spring 2007: Strengthening links within & outside the Education Community
Published by ESCalate: The Higher Education Academy Education Subject Centre (2007):
http://escalate.ac.uk/index.cfm?action=main.search&start=11&q=margaret%20simms
http://escalate.ac.uk/3344
http://escalate.ac.uk/3330
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“Defining workspaces, defining ourselves”
A special visual and intreractive presentation of a piece of collaborative research carried out by Professor M. Griffiths, Dr. K. Poursanidou, Margaret Simms and Mr. Joseph Windle.
The presentation stimulated discussion amongst international teacher educators at the 6th International S-Step Conference, (Herstmonceux) (Griffiths, Poursanidou, Windle and Simms, 2006)
(Herstmonceux Castle - what a stunning venue!
Highly recommended by ProCEEd).
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"The Longer Term Impact on Families of Involvement with Sure Start: Unexpected outcomes”.
Includes a strategy for relationship building through the amalgamation of a multiplicity of inter-professional knowledge, experience and skills.
Learning from Sure Start: National Conference on Local Evaluations (Nottingham) (Simms, 2006)
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Self-study & Diversity (2006) Tidwell, D. & Fitzgerald, L. (Eds.) (Chapter 12 ... Griffiths, Windle and Simms, 2006)
Academic and support staff: Images of three working lives in teacher education. ‘That’s what I am here for’ in Self-study & Diversity (2006) Tidwell, D. & Fitzgerald, L. (Eds.) Rotterdam: Sense Publishers Ltd.
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