Early Childhood in the Anglosphere: Systemic failings and transformative possibilities

Peter Moss is Emeritus Professor of Early Childhood Provision at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL, having joined the Unit in 1973. He co-founded the International Network on Leave Policies and for 10 years co-edited the book series Contesting Early Childhood. Much of his work has been cross-national and his interests include early childhood education, democracy in education and the relationship between employment, care and gender.

Linda Mitchell is Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Division of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Her current research is in early childhood education policy; teachers’ work; refugee and immigrant families in early childhood education; and democracy in education. She is working with Timorese collaborators to support play-based pedagogy in preschools in Timor Leste. She has a Leverhulme grant for a visiting professorship to Manchester Metropolitan University in 2021 and 2022 where she will facilitate a robust theorisation of democratic education and its practices that will be applicable to all education settings from birth through lifelong learning.