How often do we stop and wonder what it is like to be a baby in our setting? In Their Skin explores some understandings, with contributions from neuroscience, about babies’ early learning, development and wellbeing. It invites thinking about what is it that we as wise educators can do in our curriculum to best nurture babies’ belonging, being and becoming (Early Years Learning Framework, 2009).
Understandings about child development play a fundamental part in how we choose and enact a curriculum with babies. The concept of child development, being a cultural construction, reflects the particular social, cultural, economic and political paradigms of its origin. Therefore, there are a myriad of ways of how children are viewed, of understanding how children develop across families and communities and the shape their curriculum…
