Children create understanding and knowledge of their world by interacting with the environment and the ‘things’ within it. While they are doing this, we often observe them repeating actions over and ...

‘Action schemas’ are reflected in young children’s emerging language, explains Dr Cath Arnold, using observations of three children in conversation We know from a great deal of research that, as ...

As 'schema theory' becomes better known, inevitably more challenges and questions arise about its validity and usefulness to those of us involved in aiming to provide high-quality experiences for ...