The Personal is Professional: professionalism and the birth to threes practitioner |
JULIA MANNING-MORTON, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom |
pages 42-52
http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2006.7.1.42 |
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This article puts forward the idea that in order to sufficiently meet the needs of very young children and thereby develop quality provision, early years practitioners must develop a professional approach that combines personal awareness with theoretical knowledge. It argues that the development of such abilities is enabled in process-oriented training over an extended period of time and describes the 'Key Times' Project (London Metropolitan University with the London Borough of Camden, 2000-2005) as illustration of a process that impacted positively on practitioners' professional self-worth through valuing self-awareness in relation to the physical and emotional dimensions of practice. |
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JULIA MANNING-MORTON (2006) The Personal is Professional: professionalism and the birth to threes practitioner, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 7(1), 42-52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2006.7.1.42 |
