In her second article on children's dispositions, Anne O'Connor considers how early years practitioners can help children to be enthusiastic about learnin
Children's learning can be described in terms of 'knowledge and understanding', 'skills' and 'attitudes and dispositions', and it is important that early years practitioners incorporate all three in their planning.
A child may know how to write, but that does not mean they will be interested in writing. A child may be able to play a game, but that does not mean they will want to be involved in playing it.
Margaret Carr, in her book Assessment in Early Childhood Settings (see box), has defined five domains (areas) of learning disposition:
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