Slow pedagogies in early childhood education

Slow pedagogies in early childhood education

The concept of ‘slow pedagogies’, developed by Dr Alison Clark, recognises that there is always a temporal dimension to everyday life in early childhood settings. The clock is crucial to how early childhood education is understood, organised, and performed, with time often conceptualised as a tool for determining what should happen and how activities should be structured within early childhood settings. The clock makes some things possible and l…