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EYFS Best Practice - All about…interactions

Adult-child interaction needs to enhance learning and development while supporting the child to meet their own agenda – and without any unnecessary interfering, explains Julie Fisher

PHOTOGRAPHS AT HEADINGTON QUARRY FOUNDATION STAGE SCHOOL, OXFORD, BY JUSTIN THOMAS

Interactions with young children are profoundly important for supporting and extending their learning. They are so much a part of the daily experience of both practitioners and children that it is easy to assume they come about readily and naturally. The research that underpins my new book Interacting or Interfering? challenges this assumption. It would seem that something about the role of educator – as opposed to parent, carer or interested adult – puts pressure on practitioners to say things, and say them in ways that are sometimes unnatural and often unhelpful.

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