Dr Aaron Bradbury – The Child in the Now

Don’t miss this Kinderly webinar and learn all about The Child in the Now model, by Bradbury & Grimmer (2024) as a call to see, hear and nurture the child as they are today.

This model forms part of Dr Aaron Bradbury and Tamsin Grimmer’s Love and Nurture Rating Scale and is based on the idea that we must stop viewing children as “future learners” who need fixing. Children are already whole, capable, and full of potential, right now.

The Child in the Now model centres:

✨ Relationships
✨ Emotional connection
✨ Agency and voice
✨ Joyful, playful learning

It also places learning at the core of this model focusing on the outcomes for children.

Why now? Because pressures on school readiness, testing, and targets are taking the magic out of early childhood, and the heart out of our profession. This model offers another way.

We can still have high expectations but demonstrate it through another way.

Join Dr Aaron Bradbury in this inspiring webinar as he talks about reclaiming early years and centering the child in the now. 🌈

About the speaker

Aaron is a Principal Lecturer for Early Years and Childhood (Sociology, Health and Psychology, Special Educational Needs, and Inclusion) at Nottingham Trent University. He is a Member of the Coalition for the Early Years on the Birth to Five Matters, Vice Chair of the Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network and currently researching on Early Childhood workforce development. He has a passion for making the voice of the child, nurturing through a diverse lens and pioneers of early childhood the foreground of practice. So much so that he has co-authored a range of early childhood books including the best seller Early Childhood Theories Today. Aaron manages his own website and community called Early Years Reviews. Aaron has initiated and chaired the group of professionals who have created #PlayMatters.

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