About the Author

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Martin Hughes is Professor of Education at the University of Exeter. He has researched and written widely on the development and education of young children. His publications include Young Children Learning (with Barbara Tizard, 1984), Children and Number (1986), Understanding Children (with Robert Grieve, 1990) and Parents and their Children's Schools (with Felicity Wikeley and Tricia Nash, 1994). Other books describing the work of the programme include Perceptions of Teaching and Learning (Multilingual Matters, 1994) and Teaching and Learning in Changing Times (Blackwells, 1995).