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The vital need for early years practitioners to know about child development and to use that knowledge in their day to day practice with young children is acknowledged in some quarters but countered by the lack of this element in much teacher training. So we're really pleased to begin a new child development series this week which takes an in-depth look at schemas as a means of understanding how young children develop and learn. The series, which is written by the Pen Green team who have been carrying out exciting work on schemas, will alternate with Professor Tricia David's articles on leading theorists to provide some thought-provoking information.
The vital need for early years practitioners to know about child development and to use that knowledge in their day to day practice with young children is acknowledged in some quarters but countered by the lack of this element in much teacher training.

So we're really pleased to begin a new child development series this week which takes an in-depth look at schemas as a means of understanding how young children develop and learn. The series, which is written by the Pen Green team who have been carrying out exciting work on schemas, will alternate with Professor Tricia David's articles on leading theorists to provide some thought-provoking information.

Child development is the cornerstone, too, of our pull-out, collectable series on working with under-threes, the second part of which appears this week. Developing effective keyworker relationships is one of Julia Manning-Morton's themes this month. There is such a desire for training in this part of the early years sector, and we hope that this partwork will prove useful.

Parents' need to know about child development is also catered for this week with the latest in our ever-popular series for you to hand out to families on sibling rivalry.