Join our growing YCAR community of parents, teachers and others who want to understand more about how young children learn effectively through their natural research behaviours and access many more YCAR benefits. Membership is free.

By joining YCAR you can find out how young children learn effectively by using their natural research behaviours

How can you join the Young Children Are Researchers (YCAR) community? It’s easy and it’s free!

Register FREE as a YCAR member to get…

  • More information about how the YCAR study findings can support your children’s learning in exciting new ways
  • Free access to many more YCAR activities and resources
  • Access to exciting YCAR professional development events
  • Introductions to meet other YCAR members who are finding out more about how Young Children Are Researchers
  • An invitation to add to the continuing YCAR story by sharing stories about your children learning with research behaviours
  • An opportunity to become an accredited YCAR Researcher
  • The chance to earn the YCAR Quality Mark for your early childhood setting.
  • A free membership pack

To register, just send Jane an e-mail, and she will get you started!

What’s in the FREE Membership Pack?

When you join YCAR free as a member you will receive your YCAR membership pack giving you valuable resources, including…

  • A YCAR members’ welcome letter
  • Building Blocks for young children’s research behaviours:
    • Explore
    • Finding Solutions
    • Conceptualising
    • Basing Decisions on Evidence
  • Posters:
    • Explore
    • Finding Solutions
    • Conceptualising
    • Basing Decisions on Evidence
  • Individual Observation Records:
    • Explore
    • Finding Solutions
    • Conceptualising
    • Basing Decisions on Evidence
  • Class checklists:
    • Explore
    • Finding Solutions
    • Conceptualising
    • Basing Decisions on Evidence
  • Abstracts from published articles about YCAR
  • A flyer for Jane Murray’s book ‘Building Knowledge in Early Childhood Education’, published by Routledge
  • The YCAR ‘Explore’ pocket tool, with instructions
  • ‘A Little Book of Child Observation’, by Jane Murray
  • Real stories of young children behaving as researchers in their everyday lives
  • How to share your own stories of children being researchers
  • How to join the YCAR research team