Shaddai Tembo is a lecturer in early childhood studies (UK and China) at Bath Spa University and an associate lecturer at the Open University. He is a trustee for Early Education and the Fatherhood Institute, and an independent writer and speaker through Critical Early Years. Shaddai is alo currently engaged in a research project, funded by the Froebel Trust, on developing an anti-racist framework within Froebelian pedagogy.