Debi Keyte-Hartland

Debi Keyte-Hartland MA, BA (Hons) is an independent early childhood consultant working extensively across the UK and internationally. Debi works on She specialises in expressive arts and design and the creative and reflective pedagogies which support young children’s thinking, enquiry and flourishing.  She is an associate consultant with Early Education and worked as part of the collaborative team developing Birth to Five Matters. Recent research includes an ESRC funded project researching participatory pedagogies as part of the Children's Participation in Schools project in Wales and she is a pedagogical coach-mentor on SPACE to Flourish - Supporting Pedagogy in Art and Creativity in Early Years - funded by the Mercers’ Company. She undertook her Master’s degree in Early Childhood Education researching young children’s approaches to graphicacy. She has written about art and ecological research with young children.  

Email: debikeytehartland@mac.com‍ ‍

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Recent publications: ‍

(2025) Foster, Gunning & Keyte-Hartland “Expressive Arts and Design Matters” in Lee, K & Veale, V. (Eds) School Readiness Matters: Embedded and Threaded Transitions. TACTYC

(2025) Keyte-Hartland & Lowings Learning to Live Well Together: Art and Ecological Research with Young Children

(2024) Keyte-Hartland Attending to Vitality and Liveliness in Learning. Innovations. Innovations in Early Education: The International Reggio Emilia Exchange, 31,2, Summer

(2024) Keyte-Hartland Focusing on Drawing in Early Childhood: Moving beyond realism to cultivating a dynamic engagement with art in the environment