Slow pedagogy - making time for children's learning and development

This 10 minute Froebel Trust film explores Professor Alison Clark's research on slow pedagogy and shows how a slower approach to early childhood education can have a huge impact on young children's lives.

Slow pedagogy is all about:

- valuing the present moment

- being attentive to children’s pace, rhythm and interests

- enabling children to revisit their ideas and creations, places and stories

- creating opportunities for children to go deeper in their learning

- supporting time for observation, listening, reflection and documentation

- encouraging unhurried everyday routines with time for wonder and care.

This video features an interview with Alison Clark and educators based in several early years settings in Falkirk, Scotland.

[zibaansari]

Could not agree more with you and Froebel's Pedagogy - our children are rushed, from the moment they wake to the time their eyes close. Thank you for shedding light on the importance of this paradigm, seeing our children for who they are at every stage of their development. As a parent coach, and founder of 'A Heartful Path', I also endorse slowing down, and appreciating each moment with our child, listening with all our senses, following our intuition, and learning more by 'seeing' these precious beings, instead of controlling the present in order to reach a 'future' stage. We miss the golden nuggets when we hurry through life. Slow, explore, grow.

[pedro]

A truly inspiring video - and so important we slow down to children's pace - allowing them to flourish naturally and holistically. Pete Moorhouse

[donnagreen]

A wonderful collaboration of learning together which enabled a deepening of understanding of how slow pedagogy and Froebelian Principles are lived in early learning and childcare practice and the positive impacts this has for children. A fusion of drawing on research to inform practice. Donna 💞

[MegaVampireprincess]

Looks amazing but you are showing very low ratio, I didn’t see children with complex physical medical needs or extreme behavioural issues which create complex issues effecting practice