Scrap the subsidies entirely. They’re harmful and fucking over the industry.
Stop subsiding private businesses who rate hike each year yet pass none of it into the resources, building, children, or educators.
And finally pay educators better, you want high quality education? You’re not getting it when your educators rarely stay more than a year into the industry and lack all deep long term institutional knowledge.
Not to mention we’re deeply understaffed as is, and you want to put more children in when we cannot meet the demand already existing, and no a free fucking tafe course is not getting educators into the industry.
This is policy made by people who don’t step foot in the class and have zero idea of the industry.
I tried that. No one ever really joined. I tried posting content, and no one ever engaged with it.
Guess theres not many childcare educators on Lemmy as the reddit community is always super active.
Behaviourism (reward/punish to influence behaviour) was revolutionary 100 years ago, it’s pretty outdated by today’s educational paedagogy.
You might get a few short term “wins”, but all you’re doing long term is teaching them to focus on the reward. They're not learning an intrinsic value to the actions, and as such will be less likely to follow through once you’re not in the picture to punish/reward (e.g. at school, as teenagers doing teenager things, etc)
The federal government has announced it will fund a 15 per cent wage increase for early childhood education workers, tied to a commitment from childcare centres to limit fee increases.
We’d been fighting for 25%, so only 10% left to go. Glad to see UWU putting some pressure on.
I live 2 streets away and have never been. What’s so good about it?
What happened to McAfee exactly?
This is a handy little resource for planning experiences or provocations in regards to literacy skills.
The urinals are pumped directly to Trumps private suite.
Fuck Israel, they just want more targets to murder.
Tibetans told VICE World News that the meaning of this common expression used to tease and teach children is completely lost in cultural interpretation and its English translation. The correct phrase in Tibetan for this joke is “Che le sa”, which roughly translates to “Eat my tongue.” English is the Dalai Lama’s second language and Indian news outlets have previously reported that the leader speaks in broken English at public events.
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In a Youtube video, Jigme Ugen, a second-generation Tibetan refugee living in the U.S., explains how this display of affection was born out of a game played between the Tibetan elderly and children. Kids who go up to their grandfather, for instance, are asked to kiss their grandfather’s forehead, touch their noses and kiss them.
“Then [the grandfather] says that I’ve given you everything so the only thing left is for you to eat my tongue,” Ugen said. “The child probably never gets the candy or money but gets a beautiful lesson about life, love and family.”
tl;dr: A harmless translation issue.
A public company should totally be allowed to ban someone for hate.
Why wait until they commit a heinous act to try to stop the spread of them?
Why the fuck apologise for that? Did some bigoted fucksticks get upset? Good.
Sounds like a good move.
Anyone who may be harmful to others has an exception, so there’s no risk cops won’t say try to stop a kid with a knife trying to murder others.
And any of the children are still going to get their details taken down, it’s not like they’ll escape this ever catching up with them just because they don’t get locked up on the day.
This way a lot of it can ideally be chased up by more appropriate social workers, and with proper training compared to cops on the street.
Not to mention everyone has a camera in their pocket whereas before no one would believe you or be able to share the story far.
That literally tells the story of a people’s losing their livelihood due to capitalist usage of technology, and targeting the technology instead of the systemic issue.
What the absolute fuck? Has anyone else seen this ad play on SBS, how can they advertise for such a piece of shit to spread his brand of hate here.
I've started a community to help learn and practice Irish/Gaeilge. I'm learning myself and would love to meet others who are also trying, or even people who can already speak who'd love to teach or just talk.
Links to Community: Gaeilge !gaeilge@quokk.au quokk.au/c/gaeilge
This is a useful primer to start thinking about how theories exist within the work we do.
- Developmental
- Socio-cultural
- Socio-behaviourist
- Post-structural
- Critical
These are 5 ways to break down ECE theory. Here’s a brief overview on what they may look like when applied.
Developmental theory focuses on how the child develops, physically and mentally. We focus largely on stages and broad milestones.
Socio-Cultural theory looks at how society affects the growth of a child. What does their family and community impart on them as values.
Socio-behaviourist theory is a focus on stimuli and interactions with environments. We might look at structured routines and positive or negative reinforcement.
Post-Structuralist theory is about challenging our own understandings. What is really best, is eating with cutlery a goal to achieve when at home a child’s household may use their hands more for meals. How do our own cultural values impact a child’s.
Critical theory seeks to challenge our power structures. Are we dictators of children’s development or do we value their input? Should social constructs be enforced or should we challenge them?
What are your views on them? Do you value any over the other, do you incorporate all these things into your practices?
Curious to hear people’s ideas on how education would look in such a world.
For me, I’d like to see it moved away from testing and results based learning.
A stronger focus on physical engagement with things, e.g. learning biology by going out and cataloging wildlife and learning what’s in a local ecosystem before coming together and researching findings and looking for new questions to ask.
Less sitting around at desks being fed information and a greater focus on individual agency in exploring topics of interest.
Not to say there isn’t a time and a place for “high level” stuff where you need to deep dive into books and listen to lectures, but there needs to be a greater balance in methodology.
Got any concerns or questions you'd like to discuss? Share them here and I (we? please join me I'm so lonely) will do our best to answer them.
As the title says it's a community based around early years learning and development, so from birth up to pre-school.
Mainly aimed at educators, teachers, and anyone else who works with these age ranges but more than happy to field questions from parents who may be wanting more information to help them.
It's a bit of a niche community, so I'm going to struggle to grow it but Lemmy needs more industry professional spaces!
Edit: It's a .au domain, but the community is for everyone no matter where you live.
Links to Community: Early Childhood Education !earlychildhood@quokk.au quokk.au/c/earlychildhood
As Educators working with children, it's important to understand each theoretical approach and use parts of different theorists in context. Each theor...
Do you use theory in any of your documentation or planning?
I personally find myself using Parten's model a lot, although I find a lot of the stages can occur differently depending more on a child's personality than their age. But it is useful for thinking about what sort of play the children may be engaging in.
I'm very much against the fully committing to one method, such as you see in Montessori or Steiner schools. Children need a much more holistic approach, using elements from everywhere.
- It's weird
- It's political
- It's recent
- It's Australian, but the title will confuse people
- It's the vibe
I think it'll resonate well with the Lemmy audience, see these instant upvote lyrics:
>When the Orange man Came into power The Minutes Soon Felt like hours Then the Old man Won the election But the world Didn’t change direction
HungryPanda is punishing Zhuoying for speaking up about delivery rider conditions. Now she is unable to afford rent and is relying on food from her housemates. The company thought punishing Zhuoying would silence her - they were wrong. Zhuoying is determined to continue the fight for herself and...
More information can be found here:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/30/hungry-panda-delivery-rider-launches-legal-action-against-company-claiming-loss-of-work-after-protesting-pay
https://www.sbs.com.au/language/japanese/en/podcast-episode/food-delivery-riders-take-legal-action/2o6ujzupw
Feels like I’m seeing more than I have in the past decade this summer, even saw some crickets when I haven’t seen them since I was a kid.
I’m trying to download, archive, and upscale as much older Australian TV content as I can, and would love to see what other people watched or enjoyed so I can try to preserve it as well.
Confronting CCTV has captured a prison guard assaulting a handcuffed, 16-year-old inside a notorious youth jail in Perth.
"You know there's a camera up there?" he told his colleague.
