Dr Mary Wild
Senior Lecturer Child Development and Education
School of Education - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research activities
Details of my research
Academic and Research Interests
Research interests include children’s thinking; early childhood literacy including the use of ICT in early years classrooms in relation to literacy, parenting and the professional development of practitioners in Early Years.
Teaching Responsibilities
- U70100 Making Sense: Understanding the World of Young Children(double)
- U70130 Research Methods for Childhood Studies
- U70183 Child Development 2: Researching Child Development (Honours Component)
- U70199 Dissertation(double Honours Component)
Research and Consultancy Projects
- Wild, M (2008) Research in Support of Phonics. Oxfordshire LA/British Association Early Childhood Education. March 2008
- Design & Evaluation of Midline Survey on Parenting Skills for UNICEF – Turkey in association with The Centre for Learning Behaviour, Reading.
- Aug 2007 Evaluation of the National Bookstart Programme for Booktrust.
Career History
Mary is Senior Lecturer in Child Development and Education, and Field Chair for the Early Childhood Studies Degree at Oxford Brookes University. She teaches across a range of courses for practitioners and professionals in early years, including the BA Hons degree in Early Childhood Studies, the PGCE , the Advanced Early Years Specialism and other postgraduate level supervision. Mary is a qualified teacher with experience in both the primary and early years sectors and a member of the British Psychological Society and British Educational Research Association. Her DPhil at Oxford University investigated the use of ICT in early years classrooms in relation to children’s literacy. Research interests include children’s thinking; early childhood literacy and parenting.
Recent consultancy includes researching the establishment of a new PEEP initiative in the Republic of Ireland, (Wild & Mitchell, 2009), a review of developmental literature (ages 0-5) for the DCSF, the design & evaluation of a Survey on Parenting Skills for UNICEF Turkey (2008) in association with The Centre for Learning Behaviour, and an Evaluation of the National Bookstart Programme relating it to the EYFS Development Matters goals (2007).
She co-ordinates regular seminars between Oxfordshire Local Authority advisors and practitioners and researchers entitled ‘Making Research Work for Children
’.Recent Conference Papers
Mitchell, H. and Wild, M. (2009) Supporting Parents in Supporting Children’s Literacy: Practitioner Perspectives on Implementing a Parenting Programme in a New Societal Context. European Early Childhood Educational Research Association, Annual Conference, Strasbourg, France.Barron, I, Calder, P. Hughes, A., Majoribanks, B., McMillan, D., Nurse, A Selleck, D.
Silberfeld, C. & Wild, M. (2009) Reconciling Diverse Agendas in Early Childhood Policy, Systems and Practice in the UK. Strasbourg, France. European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) Annual Conference 2009
Wild, M. (2007) Learning in the Early Years, Keynote Presentation to Conference of Museum Educators. Museum of Natural History, Oxford.
Wild, M. (2006) Computers in the classroom: An Observational Account of Young Children
Using Computer Aided Learning in the Classroom. British Educational Research Association
Annual Conference, University of Warwick.
Publications
Mitchell, H. and Wild, M. (2009) Supporting parents in supporting children’s literacy: Practitioner perspectives on implementing a parenting programme in a new societal context. European Early Childhood Educational Research Association, Annual Conference, Strasbourg, France.
Wild, M. (2009) Using Computer Aided Instruction (CAI) to Support the Systematic Practice of Phonological Skills in Beginning Readers. Journal of Research in Reading
Evangelou, M., Sylva, K., Wild, M., Glenny, G. and Kyriacou, M. (2009) Review of the Literature Base for the Early Years Foundation Stage for the DCSF.
Wild, M (2008) Research in Support of Phonics. Oxfordshire LA/British Association Early Childhood Education.
Wild, M (March 2008) Design & Evaluation of Midline Survey on Parenting Skills for UNICEF – Turkey. In association with The Centre for Learning Behaviour, Reading.
Wild, M. & Mitchell, H. (2007) Early Childhood Studies: A Reflective Reader. Exeter. Learning Matters.
Keynote presentation to conference of Museum Educators on “Learning in the Early Years”, Museum of Natural History, Oxford. (Sept 2007)
Evaluation of the National Bookstart Programme for Booktrust. (Aug 2007)
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