100th Episode: Slow pedagogy with Professor Alison Clark
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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