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Join Catharine Hydon and special guests, Melinda Miller and Renee Mitchell, for Reignite Your Why — a vital conversation for early childhood professionals navigating pressure, change, and fatigue. In this reflective and energising webinar, we’ll explore what anchors us to our work, even amidst chaos, complexity, and constant change.
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Throughout the session, we heard from Jess Staines and Su Garrett about Explore and Develop Annandale’s journey to discover what it means to embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and relationships with the local community. The webinar introduced the online program Working in intercultural ways, a unique collaboration between the ECA Learning Hub and the Koori Curriculum. This program focuses on intercultural approaches and prioritises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educator voices from around Australia. We explored the impact of unconscious bias and practical strategies for building stronger, more respectful cross-cultural relationships.
It may seem as though the early childhood sector has been the subject of constant reform over the past two decades, and really it has! With the design of national curriculum frameworks and the introduction of the National Quality Framework, along with reforms around child care subsidises and kindergarten funding, early childhood professionals may feel as though their heads are spinning. While the constant changes do present some challenges, it is important to also view these through a lens of opportunity and advocacy, particularly as we learn more about quality in the early childhood sector.
In this webinar, Catharine Hydon and Fay Hadley discuss:
- how to use data and evidence to support continuous quality improvement
- a selection of recommendations and implications from recently reviewed documents and their potential impacts on early childhood education and care settings and professionals
- how early childhood professionals can actively engage in advocacy for reform.
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“Being ethical involves thinking about everyday actions and decision making, either individually or collectively, and responding with respect to all concerned” (ECA Code of Ethics, 2016). The release of EYLF V2 is a perfect time to take a moment to reflect on the continued connection of the document to the ECA Code of Ethics. As professionals, we have a number of ethical responsibilities and engaging in critically reflective dialogue around ethical pedagogy is one of these.
In this webinar, Catharine Hydon and Linda Newman discussed:
- the complimentary nature of the ECA Code of Ethics and the Early Years Learning Framework
- the role of ethics in professional practice
- examples of what ethical practice might look like in early childhood settings.