About Me

Director of the Early Childhood and Family Unit at UNESCO from 1989-97, John has worked in the early childhood policy field with the main international early childhood organisations, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and the UN Committee for the International Year of the Family. In 1998, he joined the OECD as senior consultant to the Early Childhood Policy Review. He co-authored with Dr. Michelle Neuman and Professor Collette Tayler two comparative works on early childhood policy in twenty of the OECD countries. The reports entitled Starting Strong: early childhood education and care, were published by the OECD in 2001 and 2006. Author of many articles, including contributions to the International Encyclopaedia of Education and the Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences, he has also been a member of several international committees in the field of early education and children's rights. At the moment, a Visiting Fellow at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, John is researching public policies for young Roma children in the CEE countries for OSI, UNICEF and the Roma Education Fund.

List of recent publications

  • • Bennett, J. (2010) Europe-North America Report on Early Childhood Education and Care , Paris, UNESCO
  • • Bennett. J. (2010), »Nouvelles perspectives des études internationales en matière de petite enfance » in Revue de Sèvres, Vol. 1. 2010, Paris, (in press)
  • • Bennett. J. (2010) Overview of Caring and Learning Together: a UNESCO cross-national study on the integration of early childhood care and education within education, PECERA , Seoul
  • • Bennett, J. Shmis T. and Umarov A. (2010) Early childhood quality initiatives in six Russian regions: a comparative analysis in the light of international research and best practice, Moscow, World Bank & UNESCO
  • • Bennett J. (2009) An overview of early childhood services and organisation in the European countries, with a focus on workforce roles, qualifications and development, Edinburgh, Children in Scotland
  • Bennett. J. (2009), "Public policy and early childhood systems in Europe" in European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, London, Routledge
  • Bennett, J. (2008), Early childhood services in the OECD countries: a review of the literature and of current policy in the early childhood field, Innocenti Working Paper No. 2008-01, Florence, UNICEF, Innocenti Research Centre.
  • Bennett, J. (2008) Improving the well-being of young children in Europe: the role of early years services Brussels, EUROCHILD Position Paper
  • Bennett. J. (2008) "A comparative analysis of provision made in national curricula for children’s participation" – book chapter in: MacNaughton, G., Hughes, P. & Smith, K. (2008) Young children as active citizens: principles, policies and pedagogies
  • Bennett, J, (2008) "Early childhood education and care systems in the OECD countries: the issue of tradition and governance" in Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development, Montreal.
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