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National Ranking
300

Overview

Peter Moss is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences, with a particular focus on education, political science and international relations, and sociology and political science. Their work also touches on general health professions and strategy and management.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Social Work Education and Practice
  • Digital Platforms and Economics

Peter Moss has published extensively, with notable recent papers that include:

  • "The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study: The scores are in!", 2020, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood
  • "Now is the time! Confronting neo-liberalism in early childhood", 2021, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood
  • "18th International Review on Leave Policies and Related Research", 2022, Digital Access to Libraries
  • "Early Childhood Pedagogy: Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw Interviews Peter Moss", 2020, Journal of Childhood Studies
  • "CIEC colloquium: Reflections on Beyond Quality at 25 years", 2023, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

Their research output includes publications in venues such as:

  • Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood
  • Comparative Education
  • Nursery World
  • JURA - Juristische Ausbildung
  • Digital Access to Libraries

Peter Moss has frequently collaborated with colleagues including Diana Sousa, Mathias Urban, Lennart Meyer, Claire Cameron, and Alison Koslowski.

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book publications through UCL Press. Their books include "Transforming Early Childhood Education: Towards a Democratic Education" (2020) and "Social Research for our Times" (2023).

Best Publications

  • Beyond quality in early childhood education and care : postmodern perspectives

    Gunilla Dahlberg;Peter Moss;Alan R. Pence

  • Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care: Languages of evaluation

    Gunilla Dahlberg;Peter Moss;Alan R. Pence

  • Ethics and Politics in Early Childhood Education

    Gunilla Dahlberg;Peter Moss

  • Listening To Young Children: The Mosaic Approach

    Alison Clark;Peter Moss

  • Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care – Languages of Evaluation

    Gunilla Dahlberg;Peter Moss

  • Valuing Quality in Early Childhood Services: New Approaches to Defining Quality

    Peter Moss;Alan R. Pence

  • Feminist fallacies: a reply to Hakim on women's employment.

    Ginn J;Arber S;Brannen J;Dale A

  • From Children's Services to Children's Spaces: Public Policy, Children and Childhood

    Peter Moss;Pat Petrie

  • Beyond Listening: Children's Perspectives on Early Childhood Services

    Alison Clark;Anne Trine Kjørholt;Peter Moss

  • Managing Mothers Dual Earner Households After Maternity Leave

    Julia Brannen;Peter Moss

  • Bringing politics into the nursery: early childhood education as a democratic practice

    Peter Moss

  • Men in the Nursery: Gender and Caring Work

    Claire Cameron;Peter Moss;Charlie Owen

  • Structures, Understandings and Discourses: Possibilities for Re-Envisioning the Early Childhood Worker

    Peter Moss

  • Radical Education and the Common School: A Democratic Alternative

    Michael Fielding;Peter Moss

  • Early Childhood Education and Care

    Peter Moss

  • The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s International Early Learning Study: Opening for debate and contestation

    Peter Moss;Gunilla Dahlberg;Susan Grieshaber;Susanna Mantovani

  • Working and caring over the twentieth century

    Julia Brannen;Peter Moss;Ann Mooney

  • Social pedagogy and working with children and young people : where care and education meet

    Claire Cameron;Peter Moss

  • Más allá de la calidad en educación infantil: perspectivas posmodernas

    Gunilla Dahlberg;Alan Pence;Peter Moss

  • Transformative Change and Real Utopias in Early Childhood Education: A story of democracy, experimentation and potentiality

    Peter Moss

Frequent Co-Authors

Julia Brannen
Julia Brannen University College London
Edward Melhuish
Edward Melhuish University of Oxford
Shirley Dex
Shirley Dex University College London
Suzan Lewis
Suzan Lewis Middlesex University
Sara Arber
Sara Arber University of Surrey

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