Description
Amanda Thomas is Senior Lecturer in Education at University of South Wales.
Alyson Lewis is Lecturer in Education Development at Cardiff University.
About the Author
Dr. Amanda Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in Early Years education at USW and teaches on the Early Years Education degree and the Working with Children and Families degree. She has taught in both Primary and Further Education before taking up her role in higher Education in 2011. Amanda currently teaches on a range of education modules including play, child development, pedagogy, and leading and managing others. She competed her PhD in 2018 exploring children's schemas in the Foundation Phase. She has had books and research published on Early Years education, Schemas and Transitions within education. Amanda has just completed a suite of materials for the Welsh Government on schemas. In her spare time, Amanda is a trustee of a charity trying to restore the former miners' institute in her local village. Dr Alyson Lewis has worked in a range of sectors including Early Years/Primary Education, Further and Higher Education and the Welsh Government as a social researcher. In Further Education she led two Foundation Degrees and a Top-up Degree and was award leader at Bath Spa University for the BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies and delivered modules to students in China studying the transnational education programme. She is currently lecturer in education development at Cardiff University teaching on the fellowship programme. She completed her PhD in 2017 which examined the concept and practices of well-being in the early years curriculum. She co-authored 'An Introduction to the Foundation Phase in Wales' with Amanda Thomas and has published papers relating to well-being and children's rights.
Book Information
ISBN 9781529742596
Author Amanda Thomas
Format Paperback
Page Count 296
Imprint Sage Publications Ltd
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd
Weight(grams) 540g