My Articles
Below is a selection of articles I've written that you may be interested in discovering, whether you're a practitioner, fellow academic, researcher, student or parent.
(NB: Some titles have active links which take you directly to a copy of the article, while others are available through an online search that will direct you to repositories and other sources)
Norman, A. (2025) Mothers’ Voices Within the Epistolary Mode: The historical/contemporary nexus in the maternity letters of The Women’s Cooperative Guild (1915) and The Mothership Writers Group (2021)
Autobiography Review (Submitted)
Norman, A. (2025) Wellbeing and Play
Norland Educare Research Journal (Submitted)
Norman, A. (2024) Allo-parenting – a Historical Perspective on Infant Loving Care Relationships
Norland Educare Research Journal, 2(1), article number 4 - Click HERE to access
Norman, A (2023) Museums and Student Visits
Early years Educator. 23 (23)
Norman, A (2022) Narratives Through Nature (part 2)
Early Years Educator. 23 (9)
Norman, A (2022) Narratives through Nature
Early Years Educator. 23 (8)
Norman, A (2022) A Mentoring Project (part 2)
Early Years Educator. 23 (8)
Norman, A (2022) A Mentoring Project
Early Years Educator. 23 (7) 25-27
Norman (2023) Parent Partnerships and Person-Centred Approach
(Early Years Hub) Chartered College of Teaching UK
Norman, A (2023) Spiritual Childbirth and Trust
Autobiography Review - Click HERE to access
A.Scherer and A. Norman (2023) Sleep ‘Self Help’ Books: autobiographical evaluations and personal entanglements with reading professional advice books on young children’s sleep. An exploration of the journey through early parenting and managing sleep through two mothers-as-researchers perspectives.
European Auto/Biography Journal Vol. 12 (2023): EJLW - Click HERE to access
A.Scherer and A. Norman (2023) The Sleeping Voices: Evaluating parenting ‘self-help’ books, narratives of rule, routine and ritual, children and society - Click HERE to access
Norman, A (2020) Creating Calmscapes with Classical Music
Early Years Educator. 21(9) 32-34
Byrne, J & A, Norman (2020) A transformative model of continuing professional development in a day nursery: practitioners’ perspectives on the implementation of symbolic gesturing
Professional Development in Education, DOI: 10.1080/19415257.2020.1744687
Norman, A & J, Byrne (2019) Symbolic Gesturing: creating opportunities for emotional connections between practitioners and infants in day care
Early Child Development and Care, DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2019.1659787 - Click HERE to access
Norman, A (2019) What a Feeling!
Early Years Educator. 21 (10) 35-37
Norman, A (2016) Take a Risk With Froebel
Early Years Educator. 17 (11) 34-36
Norman, A (2015) Focusing on the Details
Early Years Educator. 17 (4) 28-30
Norman, A (2015) Rhyming with Froebel
Early Years Educator. 17 (3) 32-34
Norman, A (2015) Signs of the Community
Early Years Educator. 16 (11) 21-23
Norman, A (2015) Observing Discovery Play
Early Years Educator. 16 (9) 27-30
Norman, A. (2011) The Boy on the Beach: Building Community Through Play
Cambridge Journal of Education, 41:2, 241-242, DOI: 10.1080/0305764X.2011.575279