Publications

Free download (out of print) Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2017) Education for Sustainable Citizenship in Early Childhood, SchemaPlay Publications Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2026) From Schema to Cognitive Pathway, Submitted for publication, Human Development Dipper, E., and Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2025) Early Years Curriculum and Pedagogy: Beyond ‘Balance’: Getting in ‘Tune’, ReflectED, St Mary’s Journal of Education, Volume 9 (Pedagogy in Action, Special Issue) (Conference Slides) Chen, S., Liu, F., Siraj-Blatchford, J., & Sung, H. (2025) Fit for Purpose: Exploring emergent readers’ categorisation of visual information using the Repertory Grid Technique, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, xx(xx), pp. xx-xx. Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2024) From Global ESD Policy to Practice: Research Progress and Paradigms, EECERA Conference, Brighton, 4th September Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2024) Environmental Rating Scale for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood (ERS-SDEC): The Operationalisation of a Research Instrument for Curriculum Development, Poster Presentation,EECERA Conference, Brighton, 4th September Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2024) Towards an Emergent, Ecological and Embodied (3E), ontic- or ousia-system approach to Early Childhood Education for Sustainable Citizenship, presented at OMEP Europe Assembly/Conference, Kristianstad, Sweden, April Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2023) How artificial intelligence could shape early years education, Early Years Educator, Volume 24, Issue 5. Yngvesson, T., Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2023). A Way Forward for Preschool Teacher Education and Technology. In: Garvis, S., Keane, T. (Eds) Technological Innovations in Education, Springer Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Willets, N. (2023) The integration of sustainability education into child-centred practice at Wareham Tops day nursery, Early Years Educator, Vol. 23 No. 21 Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2023) Effective Practice in Early Childhood Education for Sustainable Citizenship: The OMEP UK Early Childhood Education for Sustainable Citizenship Award, Keynote Address: European OMEP Conference: Quality and Equality in Early Childhood Education and Care, Limassol, Cyprus, 6th May Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2022) Embodied, Ecological, and Emergent Cognition in Early Childhood Education, OMEP UK Webinar, 22nd September Grimmer, T., and Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2022) A Tribute to Athey’s Frobelian Genius, Early Years Educator, Vol. 23 No. 15 Siraj-Blatchford, J., Brock, L. and Yeoman, D. (2022) A SchemaPlay Case Study, Early Years Educator, Vol. 23 No. 13 Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2022) Emergent Science Education for Sustainability, Journal of Emergent Science, Association for Science Education, Vol. 23 Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2021) Inclusion: Completely in Flow, Early Years Educator, Vol. 22, # 11 Hindmarch, T., and Boyd, D. (Eds.) (2021) A Path Made in the Walking: Forest School in Norway and in England, An OMEP (UK) Special Report in association with SchemaPlay Publications Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2021) Schemes and Sustainability: An Ecological approach to Early Childhood Education and Care, Early Years Educator, Vol. 22, # 9 Siraj-Blatchford, J., Brock, L., Moyle, V. and Yewman, D. (2021) An Evaluation of the OMEP UK Early Childhood Education for Sustainable Citizenship Award, Education and City: Quality Education for Modern Cities, European Proceedings of Educational Sciences, Vol. 2 Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2020) The Revised EYFS Curriculum: Supplement with SchemaPlay, SchemaPlay Pedagogy Magazine, Autumn Brock, L. and Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2019) Education for Sustainable Citizenship: Think Children’s future today! (Activity Ideas), SchemaPlay Publications Brock, L. and Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2019) SchemaPlay Activity Ideas: Supporting learning outcomes in free-flow play, SchemaPlay Publications Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2019) Tackling inequality and underachievement through free-flow play, Early Years Educator, Vol. 21, No. 6 Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2019) Encouraging Sustainable Citizens of the Future, Early Years Educator, Vol. 21, No. 5 Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2019) Grasping the confidence to achieve their potential, Early Years Educator, Vol. 21, No. 4 Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2019) How to scaffold learning through free-flow play, Early Years Educator, Vol. 21, No. 3 Brock, L. and Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2019) Extend Schemas to Make Children Feel Empowered, Early Years Educator, January 7th Boyde, D., Hirst, N., and Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2018) Understanding Sustainability in Early Childhood Education, David Fulton Siraj-Blatchford, J. and Emerson, S. (2018) The Legacy of Maria Montessori, in Boyde et al op cit Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2018) Peace Education and Sustainability, Montessori International, Spring Siraj-Blatchford, J. and Brock, L. (2017) It Takes a Village: A SchemaPlay Evaluation of KidZania, SchemaPlay Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2016) Putting the Schema back into Schema Theory and Practice: An Introduction to SchemaPlay, SchemaPlay Publications Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2016) Education for Sustainable Citizenship in Early Childhood, SchemaPlay Publications Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2016) International Research on Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood, Springer (with Park, E. and Mogharreban, C.) Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2016) Wellbeing and Sustainable Development: The legacy of Maria Montessori, paper presented at the European Early Childhood Education Research (EECERA) Conference, Dublin, September Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Brock, L. (2016) Early Childhood Digital Play and the Zone of Proximal Developmental Flow (ZPDF) in the Proceedings I Congreso Internacional de Innovacion Y Tecnologia Educativa en Educacion Infantil, Seville, April Siraj-Blatchford, J. & Brock, L. (2016) Emergence and Literacy (Part 3), Early Years Educator Magazine, April 2nd Siraj-Blatchford, J. & Brock, L. (2016) Distinct but Common: Putting the Schema back into schema theory and practice (Part 2), Early Years Educator Magazine, March 2nd Siraj-Blatchford, J. & Brock, L. (2016) Schemas: Free flow play (Part 1), Early Years Educator Magazine, February 2nd Brock, L. & Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2015 ) An Investigation of Schemes and Schema in Emergent Mathematics, Montessori International, August Siraj-Blatchford, J. & Brock, L. (2015 ) Taking play more seriously: A Montessori approach to understanding Free Flow Play , TACTYC Research Briefing Siraj-Blatchford, J. & Brock, L. (2015 ) Play in the Zone of Proximal Flow, TACTYC Annual Conference Paper, Birmingham, October Huggins, V. and Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2015) Education for Sustainable Development through international Partnerships, Early Education Journal, British Association of Early Childhood Education (BAECE), Vol. 76, Summer Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2015) ESD Special Edition of Early Education, the Journal of the British Association of Early Childhood Education (BAECE), Summer 2015 N0. 76 (with Huggins, V.) Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2015) Thinking Global and Acting Local, and Thinking local and acting global: Sustainable Development in early Childhood Care and Education, Early Education the Journal of the British Association of early Childhood Education (BAECE) Summer 2015 N0. 76 (with Huggins, V.) Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2015) Dinosaurs to robots: where will ICT take you? PACEY Blog, September Sung, H. and Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2015) Supporting family learning and interaction through information and communications technology in public libraries in Taiwan. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 47(4), 294-302. [SSCI] Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2015) Is it time to remove ICT from the Early Learning Goals?, Early Years Educator, 17:8, p18-20 Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2015) More than ICT, Early Education/ British Assoc. for Early Childhood Education Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2015) Your Guide to Outstanding Early Childhood Practice in ICT, Practical Pre-School Books (with Sung, H-Y., and Kucirkova, N.) Sung, H., Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Chen, S. (2015) Developing an app-based library programme to support early childhood learning. Journal of Library and Information Science (圖書館學與資訊科學), 41(1), 81-96. Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2014) Education for Sustainable Development, EYFS Best Practice, Nursery World Magazine, November Sung, H. and Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2013) Supporting young children’s emergent literacy through information and communications technology (ICT) in the public library setting. Bulletin of the Taipei Public Library (臺北市立圖書館館訊), 31(2), 34-55. Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Palmer, N. (2011) Knowledge, learning processes and ICT in early childhood education, He Kupu, Vol. 2 No. 5 Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2010) Taking Children More Seriously: How the EU can invest in Early Childhood Education for a Sustainable Future, European Panel on Sustainable Development, Report No. 4 Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2010) Education for Sustainable Development in the Early Years, OMEP (with Kim Smith and Ingrid Pramling Samuelson,) SIRAJ-BLATCHFORD, J. (2009) Values in Design and Technology: an Anti-Racism Dimension, Design & Technology Teaching, Vol. 27, no. 1 Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2009) Using ICT in the Early Years: Parents and Practitioners in Partnership, Practical Pre-School Books (with Morgan, A.) Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2009) Improving children’s attainment through a better quality of family-based support for early learning. London: C4EO (with Siraj-Blatchford, I.). Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2009) Improving development outcomes for children through effective practice in integrating early years’ services. London: C4EO (with Siraj-Blatchford, I.) Siraj-Blatchford, J (2008) The implications of early understandings of inequality, science and technology for the development of sustainable societies Samuelsson, I and Kaga, Y (Eds), The contribution of early childhood education to a sustainable society. Paris: UNESCO. Siraj-Blatchford, I., Siraj-Blatchford, J., Taggart, B., Sylva, K., Melhuish, E., Sammons, P., and Hunt, S. (2007) Qualitative Case Studies: How low SES families support children’s learning in the home’ in Effective Pre-school and Primary Education 3-11, Promoting Equality in the Early Years: Report to The Equalities Review (Full Report) Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2006) A curriculum development guide to ICT in Early Childhood Education, Trentham Books  in collaboration with Early Education (The British Association for Early Childhood Education) (with Siraj-Blatchford, I.) Siraj-Blatchford, J. (Ed.) (2006) Developing New Technologies for Young Children, Trentham Books Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2003) Supporting Information and Communications Technology in the Early Years, Open University Press (with Whitebread, D.) Siraj-Blatchford, J., and Siraj-Blatchford, I. (2002) ‘Discriminating between Schemes and Schemata in Young Children’s Emergent Learning of Science and Technology’ International Journal of Early Years Education, Vol 10 No3 Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2002) More than Computers: ICT in the Early Years, Early Education/ British Assoc. for Early Childhood Education (with I. Siraj-Blatchford) Brooker L, Siraj-Blatchford J. (2002) ‘Click on Miaow!’: How Children of Three and Four Years Experience the Nursery Computer. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. Vol. 3 (2): pp251-273 Siraj-Blatchford J, Siraj-Blatchford I. (2002) Developmentally Appropriate Technology in Early Childhood: ‘video Conferencing.’ Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. Vol. 3 (2) pp216-225 Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2001) Girls in Science: Another Case of the Emperor’s Clothes?, Journal of Research in Teacher Education, No. 2, pp 27-44 Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2001) What is an Anti-Racist Atom? (Revised), in Boohan, R. & Amos, S. (Eds) Aspects of Teaching and Learning Science, Open University Siraj-Blatchford, J. (2000) Nearly 101 things to do with a Buzz Box: A Comprehensive Guide to Basic Electricity Education, SB Publications in association with Education Now Books Siraj-Blatchford, J. (1999) Supporting Science, Design and Technology in the Early Years,  Open University Press (with MacLeod-Brudenell, I.) Siraj-Blatchford, J. (1997) Reflexivity, Social Justice and Educational research, Cambridge Journal of Education, 27:2 pp 235-248 (with Siraj-Blatchford, I.) Siraj-Blatchford, J. (1997) Robert Owen: Schooling the Innocents, Educational Heretics Press Siraj-Blatchford, J. (1997) Student Learning and Support in Colleges and Universities, David Fulton Publishers, (with Ashcroft, K. and  Jones, M.) Siraj-Blatchford, J. (1996) Learning Technology, Science and Social Justice: an integrated approach for 3 – 13 year olds, Education Now Books Siraj-Blatchford, J. (1995) Educating the Whole Child: Cross Curricular Skills, Themes and Dimensions, Open University Press, (with Siraj-Blatchford, I. (Eds.)