#112 Working with infants and toddlers (with Dr Andi Salamon & Lauren Hibberson)
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.
Links
Taken-for-granted beliefs about babies’ capabilities - Dr Salamon’s article for The Spoke
Multiple Early Childhood Identities - Edited by Andi Salamon & Angela Chng
Thinking about conflict and young children - Two-part article by Lauren Hibberson
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