Marsupial

This popped up not long after my last post about early childhood abuses yesterday.

Education and other social services should never be run for profit.

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/3659440

In a speech in NSW Parliament’s upper house yesterday, Ms Munro bluntly stated that regulations on ratios should change to cut costs in the sector.

“There are ways we can make childcare cheaper. We can change the regulations around educators who are childcare providers,” she said.

“We don’t need five or six highly educated people to look after 50 kids. Maybe we need one.”

This is a stark contrast to the current National Quality Framework, which mandates a maximum ratio of one educator for 10 children over three years old.

This is a handy little resource for planning experiences or provocations in regards to literacy skills.

What the absolute fuck? Has anyone else seen this ad play on SBS, how can they advertise for such a piece of shit to spread his brand of hate here.

Teilifís / Television

• TG4 Youtube
  Irish TV station

Ceol / Music

• Kneecap
  Hip Hop/Rap duo

Scannáin / Movies

• Filleann an Feall
  A short film staring Cillian Murphy

I've started a community to help learn and practice Irish/Gaeilge. I'm learning myself and would love to meet others who are also trying, or even people who can already speak who'd love to teach or just talk.

Links to Community:
Gaeilge
[email protected]
quokk.au/c/gaeilge

Dia Duit,

welcome to this little Lemmy community for learning Irish/Gaeilge. I'm still learning myself, so I'll be using this as a resource to share what I learn and hopefully entice other learners or speakers to participate?

This is a useful primer to start thinking about how theories exist within the work we do.

• Developmental 
• Socio-cultural 
• Socio-behaviourist 
• Post-structural 
• Critical

These are 5 ways to break down ECE theory. Here’s a brief overview on what they may look like when applied.

Developmental theory focuses on how the child develops, physically and mentally. We focus largely on stages and broad milestones.

Socio-Cultural theory looks at how society affects the growth of a child. What does their family and community impart on them as values.

Socio-behaviourist theory is a focus on stimuli and interactions with environments. We might look at structured routines and positive or negative reinforcement.

Post-Structuralist theory is about challenging our own understandings. What is really best, is eating with cutlery a goal to achieve when at home a child’s household may use their hands more for meals. How do our own cultural values impact a child’s.

Critical theory seeks to challenge our power structures. Are we dictators of children’s development or do we value their input? Should social constructs be enforced or should we challenge them?

What are your views on them? Do you value any over the other, do you incorporate all these things into your practices?

Curious to hear people’s ideas on how education would look in such a world.

For me, I’d like to see it moved away from testing and results based learning.

A stronger focus on physical engagement with things, e.g. learning biology by going out and cataloging wildlife and learning what’s in a local ecosystem before coming together and researching findings and looking for new questions to ask.

Less sitting around at desks being fed information and a greater focus on individual agency in exploring topics of interest.

Not to say there isn’t a time and a place for “high level” stuff where you need to deep dive into books and listen to lectures, but there needs to be a greater balance in methodology.