Caron Carter is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood/Childhood Education at the Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield. Prior to joining the University in 2007, Caron was an Early Years and Primary School teacher for eleven years. Five years as a Deputy Headteacher. Caron’s research interests focus on children’s friendships. Much of Caron’s work has involved looking at ways to develop a listening culture through creative methods, providing opportunities for children’s views and perceptions to be heard and to exercise their agency. A critical element of her activity is ensuring that her research impacts on school practice. Caron is currently researching how schools support children’s friendships and children’s friendships and wellbeing during ‘new times’. She is also part of a team from Sheffield Hallam University working on other funded projects focusing upon improving outcomes for children in specific areas including, friendship, wellbeing, play and transitions.
Recent Publications:
Carter, C., Barley, R. & Omar, A. (manuscript under review). ‘I wish that COVID would disappear, and we’d all be together’: Maintaining Children’s Friendships during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Carter, C. (forthcoming). Parents’ Perspectives on their Children’s Play and Friendships during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Open Access Chapter.
Carter, C. (2022). What is the biggest challenge facing pastoral care in education today and how can this challenge be effectively addressed? The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on children’s well-being. Special Edition. International Journal of Pastoral Care in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643944.2022.2093960
Carter, C. (2022). Supporting young children’s friendships: the facilitating role of the lunchtime welfare supervisor. International Journal of Pastoral Care in Education, 1-20. http://doi.org/10.1080/02643944.2022.2054023
Carter, C. (2021). Navigating Young Children’s Friendship Selection: Implications for Practice. International Journal of Early Years Education.
Batty, E., Harris, C., Leather, D., Pearson, S., Wilson, I., Carter, C., Coldwell, M., Stiell, B. and Willis, B. (2020) Children’s Communities Final Evaluation Report 2016-2020.Project Report. Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University. Available at:http://www.childrenscommunitynetwork.org.uk/sites/default/files/Childrens%20Communities%20final%20evaluation%20report.pdf
Carter, C. (2019). Children’s Friendships In D, Fitzgerald & Maconochie, E. (eds). Early childhood studies : a student’s guide. SAGE Publications.
Carter. C. (2018). Successful dissertations: the complete guide for education, childhood and early childhood studies students (Carter, Ed.; Second edition.). Bloomsbury Academic.
Carter, C. & Nutbrown, C. (2016). A Pedagogy of Friendship: young children’s friendships and how schools can support them. International Journal of Early Years Education, 24(4), 395–413. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669760.2016.1189813
Carter, C. & Bath, C. (2016). The pirate in the pump: children’s views of objects as imaginary friends at the start of school. Education 3-13, 46(3), 335–344. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2016.1262887