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Podcast: The Voice of Early Childhood
Episode: The skill of observation
Description: Tricia Mohamed and Angelica Celinska critically discuss observations in early childhood. They reflect on whether the mere concept of developmental stages risks educators seeing development as linear, regardless of the documents used to inform practice. They discuss the implications of not working with stages of development in mind, and Tricia questions identifying the need for support, and whether when we diagnose and label children, do we sometimes put a cap on their learning and abilities? A new way of looking at observations? Tricia and Angelica consider seeing observations in a way which is not the m...