To reflect upon whether your practice and your philosophy are always compatible

Aim

To reflect upon whether your practice and your philosophy are always compatible.

Evidence and reflection

Think about your value commitments, as defined in the earlier activity (To reflect upon your own decision to work in ECEC). Think about different times of the day, different times of the year and different children. Do you always follow your value commitments? Are there times when other factors mean that you do not always act as you would wish?

Extension

Think about how you might adapt your practice, or act to remove some of the factors which cause you to act outside of your values.
Share your thinking with colleagues and discuss how your practice aligns with your value commitments and times when it may not.

More in this chapter

• To reflect upon what you feel the role of the early years practitioner should be
• To reflect upon your own decision to work in ECEC.
• To reflect upon perceptions of the characteristics of men, women and early years practitioners
• To re-consider Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• To reflect upon the ideas of ‘school readiness’ and ‘school unreadiness’
• To deepen your understanding of a child
• To understand our perceptions of children and their families
• To review the learning of a child in the light of Susan Hart’s Framework for Innovative Thinking