This episode, we’re spending some time thinking about educator and teacher practice in the first three years. There’s a huge amount of advocacy out there for the importance of the first five years, but plenty of research points to the idea that the first three years are even more important for children. Yet infants and toddlers practice in the sector often receives far less attention than the years just before school.
To look at this area from two different perspectives, Leanne and Liam spoke separately with Dr Andi Salamon, an early childhood teacher, researcher and advocate, and Lauren Hibberson, an Infants Team Leader with Northside Community Service.
Find the full shownotes at earlyeducationshow.com.
An educator's place is in the resistance (with Martel Menz)
The business of early childhood education
"One child in detention is too many"
JFF: WTF?
Interview with Kate Ellis MP, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Development
Farewell Kate Ellis
International Women's Day
The National Quality Agenda Review
Professor Frank Oberklaid Interview (Part 2)
Professor Frank Oberklaid Interview (Part 1)
The return of the Jobs for Families package
BONUS: Interview with Jenny Mikakos, Victorian Minister for Families and Children
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2016 Year In Review / Q&A
STEM in early childhood / Sibylle Seidler Interview
The rise of corporate early education (with Karl Hessian)
In charge of early childhood for a day / The quality ratings system
Talking politics with young children / Our favourite research
BONUS: The divisions in our early childhood politics
Politics 101 / Chris Steel Interview
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