100th Episode: Slow pedagogy with Professor Alison Clark

To celebrate 100 episodes of The Voice of Early Childhood podcast we have a very special guest with us...the pioneering Professor Alison Clark. Best known for advocating for the voice of the child through her pioneering research with Professor Peter Moss on the Mosaic Approach: A participatory, multimethod approach of listening to young children's voices within qualitative research.

Professor Alison Clark shares with us decades of important work and research that has resulted in the pioneering practice of slow pedagogy within early childhood. Throughout the episode we unpick the concept of 'slow', from slow pedagogy and slow knowledge, to temporal and spatial thinking, the child's voice, gathering children's stories and collective memories, and much more.

To read more and download the free Froebel Trust slow pedagogy pamphlet visit:

https://thevoiceofearlychildhood.com/what-can-we-learn-from-slow-pedagogy/

Episode break down:

00:00 – Professor Alison Clark's work
03:00 – Children's views in family services
06:00 – Experts in their own lives
07:30 – Links between listening and slowing down
08:45 – Moving from 'technique' to 'language'
09:05 – Preparing for 21st century skills
12:00 – Time – an overlooked resource
15:30 – The slow movement from the 1980's
16:30 – The 1 minute story…
17:00 – Is re-reading the same story a waste of time?
20:00 – A sense of belonging through the outdoors
22:20 – How children 'story a space into a place'
24:00 – Gathering children's stories and collective memories
25:00 – An inclusive sense of belonging
28:00 – Freedom with guidance
29:30 – Wellbeing and slowing down
32:30 – What is 'slow knowledge'
35:30 – Making time to return to past thinking
38:00 – Keeping a 'slow journal'
43:00 – Going from slow to deep knowledge and pedagogy
44:00 – Re-visiting project work
46:00 – Ergonomics and slowing down

47:00 – What does slow look like indoors?
50:00 – Free Froebel Trust pamphlet

For more episodes and articles visit The Voice of Early Childhood website: https://www.thevoiceofearlychildhood.com