ABSTRACT
The first place that I would take my specialist early years PGCE students was a local nursery school that would provide part of their school experience. The nursery headteacher would ask the students to kneel down on the floor of the nursery. They were always disconcerted at this opening request, fearing some ritual for which they had not been adequately prepared. The headteacher then told the students to explore the setting on all fours and to note what they could see. It was when he explained that this was the view of the nursery that a young child saw that the rationale for his strange request became immediately apparent. This book is, in some ways, similar in that it looks at the early years nursery experience from the young child’s point of view, from the inside of their heads, looking out, rather than from the outside, looking in, thus gaining an insight into how a child develops.
