What If Childhood Came First? Part One: Why the First Six Years Don’t Belong to School (opens in new tab)

We are delighted to share a thinkpiece by Sarah Gordon, Senior Lecturer in Early Years Education at Sheffield Hallam University, following on from our recent roundtable discussion on the lived experience of early years and rethinking the conditions shaping school readiness in children, as part of our FED National Education Futures Projects on Inclusion. In this two-part series thinkpiece Sarah asks, what if the earliest years of life didn’t belong in “school” at all? This thought-provoking pi...