Here the Beckies and Mindy talk with the inspirational Gemma Goldenberg all about her research which looks at the specific effects of the learning environment on children. Join us and discover how Gemma is exploring and gaining a deeper understanding of the environmental effects on the children as they play outdoors and indoors.
What is the impact of the environment ? Why does it matter where children play?
Gemma discusses how she hopes to understand how outdoors & indoors impacts stress, attention, learning , behaviours and speech & language with the children.
We discover how she hopes to capture this information naturalistically,
Gemma was a primary school teacher and really felt that children don't need to just learn indoors . Through being outside she started to notice the children being in a different frame of mind and how children and adult moods can really change as they go out.
Gemma talks personally about the positive impact on her own children that being outside has brought, meaningful hands-on experience with time to explore, touch and smell. We talk about how as adults we just breathe when we step into the forest school and what happens in the environment when the adults are stressed?
Does a nature rich environment have the biggest impact on children or is being outside in fresh enough?
We ask why is early years research so important?
Value your gut instinct , use research to support your practice and support how the children choose to play
Early years research is for everyone in working or living with children.
We are excited to find out more about Gemma's PHD research which will be published in 3 years. For now you can follow Gemma on @phd_and_three on Instagram and Gemma Goldenberg on LinkedIn.
https://www.earlyyearseducator.co.uk/search?q=gemma+goldenberg
Grab a cuppa, have a 10 min snuggled up listen with us and this amazing community of thriving early years.
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The Beckies
creating environments where every child is understood.
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