Penn, Helen (Personal Name)

Under fives, 1992: t.p. (Helen Penn)

Early childhood services, 1999: CIP t.p. (Helen Penn) data sheet (b. Apr. 8, 1944) galley (Dr. Helen Penn, Social Science Research Unit, Inst. of Education, London Univ.)

'Be realistic, demand the imposisble', [2018]: ECip t.p. (Helen Penn) ECip galley (Professor Helen Penn tells of her experiences of working as a teacher, social worker, campaigner, researcher and writer ... Mapping the author's career from the mid-sixties onward, 'Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible' is a tribute to the progress that has been made in Early Childhood Education and Care over the past seventy years ... A first-hand commentary on adult-child relations, poverty, working with families, and engaging with democracy and inequality, Penn's narrative reconstructs her past, and in doing so, produces a social history, which records the various shifts in policy and public attitudes which she has witnessed. She comments on the wider political system, and assesses the particular pattern of educational inequality and oppression which afflicts the UK.")