TY - JOUR
T1 - Building a knowledge base about the impact of early learning frameworks for infants and toddlers
AU - Sumsion, Jennifer
AU - Harrison, Linda J.
AU - Bradley, Ben
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - This article discusses the proliferation of early learning, pedagogical and curriculum frameworks and guidelines encompassing infants and toddlers in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings, and argues for the need to build a cumulative and ideally cross-national knowledge base about the impact of such frameworks and guidelines. To this end, and within the context of Australia’s national ECEC curriculum framework, Belonging, being & becoming: The early years learning framework for Australia (the EYLF), it then outlines the study protocol for the Babies & Belonging project that is investigating infants’ experiences of belonging in ECEC centres.
AB - This article discusses the proliferation of early learning, pedagogical and curriculum frameworks and guidelines encompassing infants and toddlers in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings, and argues for the need to build a cumulative and ideally cross-national knowledge base about the impact of such frameworks and guidelines. To this end, and within the context of Australia’s national ECEC curriculum framework, Belonging, being & becoming: The early years learning framework for Australia (the EYLF), it then outlines the study protocol for the Babies & Belonging project that is investigating infants’ experiences of belonging in ECEC centres.
KW - infants
KW - toddlers
KW - curriculum
KW - early learning frameworks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84986207621&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP130100067
U2 - 10.1080/03004430.2016.1226294
DO - 10.1080/03004430.2016.1226294
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84986207621
VL - 188
SP - 651
EP - 664
JO - Early Child Development and Care
JF - Early Child Development and Care
SN - 0300-4430
IS - 6
ER -