How practitioners should get involved in children’s play has been a central theme of early years pedagogy. It’s the topic of a one-day seminar from Julie Fisher, Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University, and is based on a four-year research project looking at how early years practitioners interact with young children.
Ms Fisher says the course, ‘Interacting or Interfering? Improving Interactions in the EYFS’, challenges the assumption that interactions ‘come about readily and naturally’, adding, ‘Adults sometimes force their own agenda onto children at an age when children are often highly motivated and driven by an agenda of their own.’
Caroline Burt, early years teacher at Fishergate Primary School in York, went on the course, which is offered through Early Excellence, after returning to early years teaching full time last year.
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