ABSTRACT
Early childhood educators need to protect and encourage children to keep and develop dispositions towards learning. Early childhood practitioners have the opportunity to build with progression from their roots, as they move into the new century. At the Centre for Early Childhood Studies at Roehampton Institute, there are regular study days each term when parents, nursery nurses and teachers come together to share thinking. The voice which Early Childhood Educators are finding through increased research evidence is not the only voice through which they speak. Early Childhood Educators also speak through the parents who can see how children benefit. Perhaps that was the nearest the early childhood movement in Britain ever got to influencing the majority view of primary education. The ideals expressed in the tradition of Early Childhood Education however make up and can be supported by current theory. The Early Childhood tradition begins in contrast with the child in context.
