Here the Beckies  and Mindy  talk with the inspirational Gemma Goldenberg all about her research which looks at the  specific effects of the learning environment on children.   Join us and discover how Gemma is exploring  and gaining  a deeper understanding  of  the environmental  effects on the children as they play outdoors and indoors.
What is the impact of the environment ? Why does it matter where children play?
Gemma discusses  how she hopes to understand how outdoors & indoors impacts   stress, attention, learning , behaviours and speech & language  with the children.
We discover how she hopes to capture this information naturalistically,
Gemma was a primary school teacher and really  felt that children don't need to just learn indoors .  Through  being outside she started to notice the children being in a different frame of mind and how children and adult moods can really change as they go out.
Gemma talks personally about the positive  impact on her own children that being outside has brought,  meaningful hands-on experience  with time to explore, touch and smell.  We talk about how as adults we just breathe when we step into the forest school and what  happens in the environment when the adults are stressed?
Does a  nature rich environment have the biggest impact on children or is being outside in fresh enough? 
We ask why is early years research so important?  
Value your gut instinct , use research to support your practice and  support how the children choose to play
Early years research is for everyone in working or living with children.
We are excited to find out more about Gemma's PHD research which will be published in 3 years.  For now you can follow Gemma on @phd_and_three on Instagram and Gemma Goldenberg on LinkedIn.
https://www.earlyyearseducator.co.uk/search?q=gemma+goldenberg
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