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Part 1:

Question 1. How do you react to the idea of storytelling in early childhood education, as a way we try to make sense of things, or weave reality? Does it work for you, or does it seem wide of the mark?

Question 2. Have you ever felt like the child in the Emperor's' New Clothes? When and why? What did you do? What did you wish you had done?

Question 3. I have talked about the ‘ story of markets' and the ‘story of quality and high returns' as dominant discourses. Do you agree or disagree? Are you aware of other dominant discourses in early childhood education? If so, what are they?

Question 4. Who, in your experience, ar e the loudest voices telling the dominant stories in early childhood education?

Question 5. I have given some examples of ‘human technologies' in early childhood education. Are there other examples you can suggest?

Question 6. What other members of the resistance movement do you know of? (159 words)

Part 2: 

Question 1. Do you think you have a paradigmatic position which shapes how you see and understand things? What is it? How do you think you have come to have this position? Has your position changed over time?

Question 2. Take an issue in early childhood education, for example, curriculum, assessment or working with parents: how might these issues be under-stood and implemented from different paradigmatic positions?

Question 3. What is your response to the (post foundational) idea that in the social world there are many truths and many knowledges?

Question 4. Is ‘quality' a concept that you choose to work with? Do you think there can be an objective, stable and universal standard of early childhood education?

Question 5. Should paradigm be introduced into the education of people wanting to work in early childhood education? If so, when and how? (136 words)

Part 3:

Question 1. What for you is the bedrock or starting point of early childhood education - technical practice, political and ethical practice, or something else?

Question 2. What are your political questions?

Question 3. Choose a political question, it doesn't matter which; what is your answer or political choice?

Question 4. Take an official document and look for a declaration of the image of the child, i.e. an explicit statement. Can you find one? If yes, what image is offered? Do you share that image? If you can't find such a statement, why do you think that is? Reading the document, do you think that the authors of the document have an implicit image of the child in their minds? Do you share that image?

Question 5. What ethical approach do you think should guide early childhood education?

Question 6. How do you understand alterity or Otherness? Can you think of an instance when you tried to ‘grasp' the Other, to make the Other into the Same' - even if you were not aware at the time of doing so?

Question 7. How can educators relate responsibly to children, recognising their ‘otherness'? How might educators try to understand what a child can do without resorting to measures using predefined categories? (201 words)