The Reflective Early Years Practitioner

About Elaine Hallet

Dr Elaine Hallet has been involved in educating children practitioners educators teachers and students over a career of thirty-six years and during this time has developed an understanding of how to nurture scaffold and support childrens and adults learning and professional practice through meaningful contexts. She has worked as an early years teacher advisory teacher and leader in a range of schools and nurseries as a lecturer and leader with students in further and higher education teaching on a range of early years initial training post-qualifying undergraduate postgraduate doctoral programmes and sector-endorsed professional awards in early years and integrated centre leadership. Elaines research includes foundation degree graduates continuing professional development through work-based reflective learning the development of professional identity the role of graduate early years leaders in the leadership of learning. She is committed to continuing professional learning for development of professional practice and to supporting practitioners educators and teachers on their reflective learning journeys of knowledge understanding and discovery.    Elaine has recently retired from her role as Lecturer in Early Childhood at the Institute of Education: University College London. With a background in early years education and practice Elaine is an established author with a special interest in the education of young children and practitioners educators and teachers reflective continuing professional learning.