The critical literature on early childhood has grown in recent years. So much so, that in the UK, Routledge (an academic publisher) has an entire series entitled "Contesting Early Childhood". One of the latest titles in the series is Constructions of Neuroscience...
Raising Children on the Inside I’ve spent a lot of my time in prison this summer, playing with babies and chatting with their mums. There are six prison mother and baby units in the UK, and they are all different....
The Nobel Prize winners David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel demonstrated that kittens deprived of sensory input in one eye at birth remained permanently blind in that eye. The story of a blind kitten certainly tugs at the heart strings, but...
When deliberating on the many claimed benefits for early intervention services a number of ethical questions arise: - Why should the government invest in early intervention programmes? - Why is early intervention ‘right’? - Why is early intervention ‘good’? These...
