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Livingston, Kay and Waters-Davies, Jane (2024) Agency in negotiating partnerships in initial teacher education: shifting sands. European Journal of Teacher Education, 47 (5). pp. 1073-1090. ISSN 1469-5928

Murphy, Alison and Roberts, Louisa and Williams, Jane and Chicken, Sarah and Clement, Jennifer and Waters-Davies, Jane and Tyrie, Jacky (2024) Participative rights in Welsh primary schools: unpicking the policy rhetoric. Policy Futures in Education. ISSN 1478-2103

Waters-Davies, Jane and Murphy, Alison and Chicken, Sarah and Tyrie, Jacky and Clement, Jennifer (2024) Constructing child participation in early years classrooms: an exploration from Wales. Children & Society, 38 (5). pp. 1824-1841. ISSN 0951-0605

Waters-Davies, Jane and Tyrie, Jacky and Chicken, Sarah and Knight, Cathryn and Grout, Ellie (2023) Belonging, community and capability: Listening to the voices of young children to realise process quality in early childhood curriculum enactment in Wales. Education 3-13. ISSN 1475-7575

Waters, Jane and Sharpling, Elaine (2020) Changing the Lens: mapping the development of research dispositions in programmes of Initial Teacher Education (ITE). Wales Journal of Education, 22 (1). pp. 165-183. ISSN 2059-3716

Gealy, Ann-Marie and Tinney, Glenda and MacDonald, Natalie and Waters, Jane (2020) A socio-constructivist approach to developing a professional learning intervention for early childhood education and care practitioners in Wales. Professional Development in Education. pp. 298-314. ISSN 1941-5265

Waters, Jane and MacDonald, Natalie (2020) Exploring the use of a rating scale to support professional learning in early years pre-school staff: the experience of one local authority in Wales. Early Years (CEYE).

Bateman, Amanda and Waters, Jane (2018) Risk-taking in the New Zealand Bush: issues of resilience and wellbeing. Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 12 (2). pp. 7-29. ISSN ISSN 1976-1961

Bilton, Helen and Waters, Jane (2016) Why take young children outside? A critical consideration of the professed aims for outdoor learning in the early years by teachers from England and Wales. Social Sciences, 6 (1). pp. 1-16. ISSN 2076-0760

Waters, Jane (2016) The Foundation Phase in Wales – time to grow up? Wales Journal of Education, 18 (1). pp. 179-198. ISSN 2059-3708

Book Section

Murphy, Alison and Tyrie, Jacky and Waters-Davies, Jane and Chicken, Sarah and Clement, Jennifer (2022) Foundation Phase teachers’ understandings and enactment of participation in school settings in Wales. In: Inclusive pedagogies for early childhood education: respecting and responding to differences in learning. Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, pp. 111-134. ISBN 9781003163206

Murphy, Alison and Waters-Davies, Jane (2022) The Children’s Rights Approach to Early Childhood Education: Policy and Context in Wales. In: Inclusive Pedagogies for Early Childhood Education: Respecting and Responding to Differences in Learning. Taylor & Francis.

Waters-Davies, Jane (2022) Children's Right to Play. In: Introduction to Play. SAGE. (In Press)

Rekers, Angela and Waters-Davies, Jane (2022) Cultural Framing of Expectations for Play. In: Introduction to Play. SAGE. (In Press)

Rekers, Angela and Waters-Davies, Jane (2021) ‘All of the Wild’: Cultural Formation in Wales Through Outdoor Play at Forest School. In: Outdoor Learning and Play Pedagogical Practices and Children's Cultural Formation. Part of the International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development book series (CHILD, volume 34) (34). Springer, pp. 145-160. ISBN 978-3-030-72597-6

Barnes, Janine and Waters, Jane (2018) Reform of Initial Teacher Education in Wales: taking an analytical approach to the issues using activity theory. In: Teacher education policy and practice: international perspectives and inspirations. Key concepts (1). Foundation for the Development of the Education System, Warsaw, pp. 148-166. ISBN 978-9949-29-023-9

Waters, Jane (2017) Affordance theory in outdoor play. In: The SAGE handbook of outdoor play and learning. Sage Reference . Sage Publications Ltd, London. ISBN 9781526402028

MacDonald, Natalie and Waters, Jane (2016) The Early Years Foundation Stage: Theory and Practice Chapter 3 The National Picture. In: The Early Years Foundation Stage; Theory and Practice 3rd Edition. SAGE, pp. 58-59. ISBN 978-1-47390-820-8

Waters-Davies, Jane and MacDonald, Natalie The capable child as a threshold concept for inclusive early childhood education and care. In: Inclusive Pedagogies for Early Childhood Education: Respecting and Responding to Differences in Learning. Taylor & Francis. (In Press)

Monograph

Waters-Davies, Jane and Davies, Prysor and Underwood, Clive and Lloyd-Williams, Siân (2022) Exploring the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on learners in Wales. Project Report. Welsh Government.

Other

Waters-Davies, Jane (2023) Review of: Talking with children: A Handbook of interaction in early childhood education, edited by Amelia Church and Amanda Bateman (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Equinox Publishing. (In Press)

Waters, Jane and Rekers, Angela (2019) Young Children’s Outdoor Play-Based Learning. Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development, Montreal.