Tony Bertram
Biographic Data
| ID | 6146016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Bertram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Bertram |
| SIGNATURE | BERTRAM T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Research in Early Childhood |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6856-6180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A funds of knowledge approach to explore how play-based pedagogies support mixed ethnic identity formation
Ideologies in educational research focused on the experiences of mixed ethnic children, and the importance of mediating tools of language (fundamental in Vygotskian thinking), fail to incorporate the unique contributions and agentic ways in which this group of children choose to share ‘knowledge'. What appears to be missing in discourse is the child's perspective on how they choose to categorise their mixed ethnic identity. Building upon sociocul…
An investigation into the emotional environment
Meet me at the museum
Young children are not just service-users or pupils, they are citizens with an active role in cultural life. The study discussed here used accompanied visits to explore how two- to four-year-old children engaged with a university art museum with the aims of demonstrating children’s capacity for cultural participation and enabling adults to notice and support this.The qualitative exploratory case study used innovative approaches to generate data c…
Building a Pedagogy of Welcome in practice
Child displacement levels are rising due to conflict and violence; early educators often provide the first sustained contact young refugee children have with host-country culture. Sensitive pedagogical practices can provide refugee children with a sense of safety as they navigate their new world. This article shares one aspect of a Pedagogy of Welcome, which was developed through a small-scale doctoral research project and investigated the lived …
A Significant Events Approach to Children’s Rights with children under three in early childhood education and care
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is one of the most widely-ratified human rights treaties, yet the visibility of children in the early years, in the mandatory government reports to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and in the Committee’s concluding observations to States Parties, is relatively low (Lundy, 2020, “Implementing the Rights of Young Children: An Assessment of the Impact of General Comment No. 7 on Law and Policy …
Eecera ethical code for early childhood researchers
The EECERA Ethical Code for Early Childhood Researchers outlines underpinning ethical principles as well as practice guidance to ensure that research undertaken globally within the field of early childhood is done so ethically. This revised ethical code has been expanded to ensure that current global issues such as sustainability and the advancement of technology are evident. It also considers a rising prevalence of desk-based research as we reco…
Professional development for ethical practice transformation
Promoting the centrality of real world relationships and interactions with young children in an increasingly digitalised and virtual world
We thought we would begin this Editorial with a panoramic view of early childhood and its place in our ecosphere, before relating some particular features of this Issue’s contribution to that encom
Promoting values and rigour in an evolving publishing landscape
In a digital world rapidly challenging the traditional methods of knowledge creation and transfer, this Editorial offers an opportunity to reflect on the creation and history of this highly success
Praxeological action research
This paper presents a narrative case study of an innovative Froebelian approach to professional development, implemented in a large Nursery School and Family Centre in southern England undertaken as part of an extended programme of research and development funded by the Froebel Trust from 2021–2024 which was trans-national, including two early childhood settings, one in England and one in New Zealand. The research and development programme had tw…
Evidencing practice
Creating forums for plural Covid narratives and dialogues in early childhood
(2021). Creating forums for plural Covid narratives and dialogues in early childhood. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal: Vol. 29, Plural Narratives about COVID–19 and Early Childhood, pp. 1-5
What do young children have to say? Recognising their voices, wisdom, agency and need for companionship during the Covid pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic poses multiple challenges for young children in the modern world. Listening to, and capturing, the experiences and perspectives of young children on the pandemic are congruent with our sense of an inclusive, democratic society which values solidarity and the right to be heard, yet too often the voices of young children are excluded from consideration. This paper reports on a trans-national, qualitative study in which practit…
Involving refugee children in research
This paper discusses some of the ethical issues encountered when involving refugee children in research. It draws on a study that aims to investigate how young Syrian refugee children experience Early Education, in one English local authority. This small-scale qualitative piece of research was developed in response to the deepening refugee crisis outlined by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in August 2013 which suggested that…
Early Years
There are authors from 14 countries within the 10 papers comprising this Issue of the European Early Childhood Education Research Journal (EECERJ): Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, England, F
Effective Early Learning
Este artigo reconhece a importância de proporcionar uma educação inicial de alta qualidade a crianças pequenas visando à promoção de resultados positivos a longo prazo que favoreçam a mobilidade social para os menos favorecidos. Oferece uma estratégia para melhorar a qualidade pedagógica em ambientes da primeira infância no mundo todo, em situações em que a qualidade permanece baixa para muitas crianças, e estabelece um modelo praxeológico altern…
Eecera ethical code for early childhood researchers
This issue of the journal will include the EECERA Ethical Code which has been formulated by the EECERA Ethical Sub-committee; Chris Pascal, Tony Bertram, Julia Formosinho, Colette Gray and Margy Whalley.The EECERA ethical code is intended as a guiding framework for all those involved in early childhood research and the publication and dissemination of its results. It is intended that all research conducted by EECERA members, or published and diss…
Listening to young citizens
S Since the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified in Citation1991, children's right to have a voice, and to have their opinions heard, has led many providers and practitioners in the field of early years to seek ways to involve children's perspectives in the evaluation and development of practice. Those who value democracy understand that encouraging young children to actively participate has long term implications for participato…
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Listening to young citizens
S Since the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified in Citation1991, children's right to have a voice, and to have their opinions heard, has led many providers and practitioners in the field of early years to seek ways to involve children's perspectives in the evaluation and development of practice. Those who value democracy understand that encouraging young children to actively participate has long term implications for participato…
Eecera ethical code for early childhood researchers
This issue of the journal will include the EECERA Ethical Code which has been formulated by the EECERA Ethical Sub-committee; Chris Pascal, Tony Bertram, Julia Formosinho, Colette Gray and Margy Whalley.The EECERA ethical code is intended as a guiding framework for all those involved in early childhood research and the publication and dissemination of its results. It is intended that all research conducted by EECERA members, or published and diss…
Effective Early Learning
Este artigo reconhece a importância de proporcionar uma educação inicial de alta qualidade a crianças pequenas visando à promoção de resultados positivos a longo prazo que favoreçam a mobilidade social para os menos favorecidos. Oferece uma estratégia para melhorar a qualidade pedagógica em ambientes da primeira infância no mundo todo, em situações em que a qualidade permanece baixa para muitas crianças, e estabelece um modelo praxeológico altern…
Involving refugee children in research
This paper discusses some of the ethical issues encountered when involving refugee children in research. It draws on a study that aims to investigate how young Syrian refugee children experience Early Education, in one English local authority. This small-scale qualitative piece of research was developed in response to the deepening refugee crisis outlined by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in August 2013 which suggested that…
Early Years
There are authors from 14 countries within the 10 papers comprising this Issue of the European Early Childhood Education Research Journal (EECERJ): Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, England, F
Creating forums for plural Covid narratives and dialogues in early childhood
(2021). Creating forums for plural Covid narratives and dialogues in early childhood. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal: Vol. 29, Plural Narratives about COVID–19 and Early Childhood, pp. 1-5
What do young children have to say? Recognising their voices, wisdom, agency and need for companionship during the Covid pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic poses multiple challenges for young children in the modern world. Listening to, and capturing, the experiences and perspectives of young children on the pandemic are congruent with our sense of an inclusive, democratic society which values solidarity and the right to be heard, yet too often the voices of young children are excluded from consideration. This paper reports on a trans-national, qualitative study in which practit…
Evidencing practice
Professional development for ethical practice transformation
Promoting the centrality of real world relationships and interactions with young children in an increasingly digitalised and virtual world
We thought we would begin this Editorial with a panoramic view of early childhood and its place in our ecosphere, before relating some particular features of this Issue’s contribution to that encom
Promoting values and rigour in an evolving publishing landscape
In a digital world rapidly challenging the traditional methods of knowledge creation and transfer, this Editorial offers an opportunity to reflect on the creation and history of this highly success
Praxeological action research
This paper presents a narrative case study of an innovative Froebelian approach to professional development, implemented in a large Nursery School and Family Centre in southern England undertaken as part of an extended programme of research and development funded by the Froebel Trust from 2021–2024 which was trans-national, including two early childhood settings, one in England and one in New Zealand. The research and development programme had tw…
Meet me at the museum
Young children are not just service-users or pupils, they are citizens with an active role in cultural life. The study discussed here used accompanied visits to explore how two- to four-year-old children engaged with a university art museum with the aims of demonstrating children’s capacity for cultural participation and enabling adults to notice and support this.The qualitative exploratory case study used innovative approaches to generate data c…
Building a Pedagogy of Welcome in practice
Child displacement levels are rising due to conflict and violence; early educators often provide the first sustained contact young refugee children have with host-country culture. Sensitive pedagogical practices can provide refugee children with a sense of safety as they navigate their new world. This article shares one aspect of a Pedagogy of Welcome, which was developed through a small-scale doctoral research project and investigated the lived …
A Significant Events Approach to Children’s Rights with children under three in early childhood education and care
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is one of the most widely-ratified human rights treaties, yet the visibility of children in the early years, in the mandatory government reports to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and in the Committee’s concluding observations to States Parties, is relatively low (Lundy, 2020, “Implementing the Rights of Young Children: An Assessment of the Impact of General Comment No. 7 on Law and Policy …
Eecera ethical code for early childhood researchers
The EECERA Ethical Code for Early Childhood Researchers outlines underpinning ethical principles as well as practice guidance to ensure that research undertaken globally within the field of early childhood is done so ethically. This revised ethical code has been expanded to ensure that current global issues such as sustainability and the advancement of technology are evident. It also considers a rising prevalence of desk-based research as we reco…
A funds of knowledge approach to explore how play-based pedagogies support mixed ethnic identity formation
Ideologies in educational research focused on the experiences of mixed ethnic children, and the importance of mediating tools of language (fundamental in Vygotskian thinking), fail to incorporate the unique contributions and agentic ways in which this group of children choose to share ‘knowledge'. What appears to be missing in discourse is the child's perspective on how they choose to categorise their mixed ethnic identity. Building upon sociocul…
An investigation into the emotional environment
Pedagogy (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Early childhood education (12 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (9 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Active listening (3 works)