OCCASIONAL PAPER 7 - Relationship based pedagogies with babies and toddlers: Issues from teaching and implications for learning.

Sheila Degotardi

Associate Professor in EC Education, Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University, Australia. Relationships play a central role in human existence. As individuals, we define ourselves with reference to these relationships – as a friend, a partner, a colleague, a parent, a teacher, a learner, a community member and so on. The nature  and the function of these different relationships will shape the activities that we engage in, the interactions that we have with others and the intensity and purpose of these interactions. Our relationships with others therefore comprise an interpersonal context through which we develop the socially and culturallyrelevant ways of thinking and acting that shape our present and influence our future.

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