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Barnardos Australia CEO Deirdre Cheers speaks out during National Families Week
Sunday 15 May marked the start of National Families (15-21 May) and the final week of the Federal Election campaign. It’s a time when politicians appeal to ‘working families’ about their vision for the future.
7 hours
by Freya Lucas
Workforce
Policy
Desperately seeking big policy ideas for our smallest youngest people
Dr Leanne Gibbs, a Senior Lecturer at Charles Sturt University asks where in the 2022 election campaign is the commitment to big investment and to big policy ideas that ensure free and accessible early childhood education for the long-term?
3 days
by Freya Lucas
COVID-19
Policy
Workforce
What Australian educators need from the next Federal government
This year has been difficult and stressful and it’s only May. We’ve seen Australia re- open its borders causing all-time highs in our COVID-19 case numbers, and floods causing confusion and wreaking havoc for children, women, families and early educators – all of whom are being impacted by one thing or another.
2 weeks
by Freya Lucas
Quality
Programming. Mountains out of Molehills
YES, programming, documentation, observation, assessment, reflection, and so much more, are part of our professional obligations as educators. It is the area that many find the most challenging, that causes them the biggest stress and anxiety, that sadly often causes conscientious educators to leave the profession.
2 months
by Freya Lucas
Workforce
Why it might be better to leave the Elf on the Shelf, and out of ECEC
With the increasing popularity in Australia of the American product Elf on the Shelf (EOTS), The Sector has prepared the following reflection which offers some perspective on the tradition in line with the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF), the National Quality Standard (NQS) and the National Quality Framework (NQF), and its appropriateness for the early childhood education and care (ECEC) space.
5 months
by Freya Lucas
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Storypark embraces nature pedagogy with integration of pioneering new “Environmental Kinship Guidelines”
3 days ago
by Jason Roberts
Quality
ECEC quality ratings edge higher despite slowdown in A&R visits and spike in waivers
3 days ago
by Jason Roberts
Quality
Research
The value of loose parts play as a vehicle for children’s imagination
1 week ago
by Freya Lucas
