The early years workforce suffers terribly from being undervalued, by both Government and society. It appears to me that because we don’t have clear recall about our early childhood (the pre-linguistic phase), it isn’t clearly understood or respected. There is little appreciation from outside (or sometimes even within the education sector) that this is the time when we create the fabric or core of our personality.
In trying to understand the reasons behind this, which don’t simply appear to be influenced by qualifications (think the Early Years Professional programme and how this was never adequately established), I am interested in the idea of being ‘professional’.
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