ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors explain a research project in which they identified adult Pedagogic Strategies; these are ways in which adults already engage to support children's learning effectively. The strategies themselves make a conceptual framework. The Pedagogic Strategies framework was first developed by parents and practitioners for working with children aged three to five years at Pen Green Centre. Adult Pedagogic Strategies are how adults effectively support children's learning and development. The role of parents has been extensively researched and yet has developed relatively recently in terms of pedagogy. In 1997, the authors invited parents to take part in a small study, funded by the then Teacher Training Agency, to consider the Pedagogic Strategies that both workers and parents were using. The review of the Pedagogic Strategies was an opportunity for the authors to respond to the increased number of children below the age of three that they were now working with at Pen Green.
