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.
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(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)
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Norman, A. (2025) Wellbeing and Play
Norland Educare Research Journal (Submitted)
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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
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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
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Norman (2023) Parent Partnerships and Person-Centred Approach
(Early Years Hub) Chartered College of Teaching UK
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Norman, A (2023) Spiritual Childbirth and Trust
Autobiography Review - Click HERE to access
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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
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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
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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
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​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
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Norman, A (2019) What a Feeling!
Early Years Educator. 21 (10) 35-37
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Norman, A (2016) Take a Risk With Froebel
Early Years Educator. 17 (11) 34-36
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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
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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
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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
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