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DEEWR launches Early Years Learning Framework online forum
The Early Years Learning Framework online forum has been established to encourage discussion among early childhood education practitioners and the government as they trial the draft Early Years Learning Framework.
The online forum will also support the government's priority of trialling online consultation and engagement with the community, and will provide valuable feedback on the effectiveness of this approach.
The forum will run from 14 March to 20 April 2009.
Further information on the forum is available on the DEEWR website.
To register for the online forum, please complete the DEEWR Online User registration form and click once on the 'submit by email' button. On acceptance of your registration, you will be sent login details and the terms of use for the online forum.
For more information, contact DEEWR.
Further reading
ECA's advocacy work
Early Years Learning Framework: Early Childhood Australia submission (PDF)
Two excerpts from ECA's response to the second draft of the Federal Government's Early Years Learning Framework:
'Early Childhood Australia therefore believes that the purpose of the EYLF should be to articulate our intentions for Australia's children from birth to age five in crisp, unequivocal terms clearly stating what exactly children are entitled to experience and what their families can hope will be gained from children participating in early learning settings. The EYLF should base the description of early years content on a vision for the people children will become and they world they will create.'
'ECA therefore suggests the following four outcomes and associated key elements:
- Identity and relationships – including emotional and physical wellbeing and social skills and empathy
- Active participation – including learning to act democratically, to value diversity and to contribute to interdependent communities
- Thinking and investigating – including processes of inquiry, understanding the natural and constructed world and creating sustainable futures
- Ways of communicating – including literacy, numeracy, IT and creative representation and communication through arts forms.'
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