Developmental Movement Play - transforming lives and well-being

Developmental Movement Play - transforming lives and well-being

This publication is for parents and young children experiencing emotional, behavioural and/or mental health difficulties and explores how communicating through physically active, non-verbal relationship play helps to improve the lives of vulnerable families. 

Early Childhood Arts - Three Perspectives on childhood arts in Ireland

Early Childhood Arts - Three Perspectives on childhood arts in Ireland

Commissioned by Arts Council Ireland, this seminal collection and analysis of the most effective research on the impact of creative early years learning was written by Ruth Churchill Dower and Ben Sandbrook for Earlyarts.

Communicative Musical Funniness

Communicative Musical Funniness

This research by Charlotte Arculus focuses on the relationship between musicality and funniness in two-year-old children's free play in a daycare nursery setting. It observes various sophisticated, and sometimes surprising ways in which children use communicative musical funniness to create strong complicit relationships with each other.

Effective practice: Creativity and Critical Thinking

Effective practice: Creativity and Critical Thinking

A review of Creativity and Critical Thinking as processes that are child led but which benefit greatly from the sensitive contributions of others, and exploring why creativity is important in early learning.

Chicago Children's Museum - Standards of Excellence in Early Learning

Chicago Children's Museum - Standards of Excellence in Early Learning

Chicago Children’s Museum is working to become “a model of its kind in early childhood,” and “a community where play and learning connect.” To realize those goals, CCM has pursued a two-year study to understand the dimensions of such a model and explores those dimensions in this seminal publication - a must read for all museums and galleries.

Engaging special educational & disabled children with music technology

Engaging special educational & disabled children with music technology

Research into the ways in which technologies are being used for music making with these young people, the legacy of such approaches and the barriers to engagement with technology in these contexts.

Children and the Arts: developing educational partnerships between pre-school, school and tertiary sectors

Children and the Arts: developing educational partnerships between pre-school, school and tertiary sectors

This article describes a developing joint venture for Arts education in Adelaide, South Australia, focussing on how a performing arts company enhances children's artistic development within and beyond conventional educational settings.

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Babies' brains need music

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Babies' brains need music

According to researchers at McMaster University in Canada - very early music training can benefit children - before they even learn to walk or talk - further details at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q2VbOUfUmk.

Close Encounters with Culture: Museums and the EYFS

Close Encounters with Culture: Museums and the EYFS

This toolkit from Renaissance North West provides a series of wonderful ideas to enhance young children's learning and development by engaging with objects and art works in museums and art galleries.

Bonkers About Brains: creativity and brain development in children

Bonkers About Brains: creativity and brain development in children

What happens to a baby's brain in it's first year of life? Learn how creativity promotes brain development through our first Teddy Talk. Led by Director of Earlyarts, Ruth Churchill Dower, this video of her talk on 24 Nov 2013 at The Conservatoire is a must-see for parents of young children.

Designing and Planning for Play

Designing and Planning for Play

Designing and Planning for Play has been published to encourage local authorities, schools, settings, designers and architects to make greater use of creativity in designing spaces that allow children to use their imagination, with natural play design.

Learning: creative approaches that raise standards

Learning: creative approaches that raise standards

This evaluation of 44 schools which use creativity across the curriculum found evidence of higher standards and personal development. It also suggests that the benefit may be greater for children and young people from more disadvantaged backgrounds.

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