You’ll know from previous blogposts, that I’m particularly interested at the moment in how babies show self-determination and agency – how they make choices for themselves and how they make things happen in the world around them. I wonder how this focus on self-determination and agency might change the way we see touch and affectionContinue reading “Babies’ self-determination and agency: thinking about touch and affection in the baby room”
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Babies’ self-determination and agency
What does it mean to provide ‘rights-based learning and care’ in the baby room? What makes anything ‘rights-based’? Children’s rights go hand in hand with thinking about children as having self-determination and agency. Let’s break these two terms down and think about what they might mean in the baby room. Self-determination is being able toContinue reading “Babies’ self-determination and agency”
Why do we need to think about rights in the baby room?
I’ve been designing materials for the course ‘Respecting the Rights of Babies: Rights-based learning and care in the baby room’, which starts on Wednesday 22nd November at 11.30am. I thought it might be interesting to explain why I wanted to focus professional learning around rights in the baby room. Where did the motivation for thisContinue reading “Why do we need to think about rights in the baby room?”