I think I've figured out why @Ofstednews is in such a mess around curriculum in the early years. The problem is all about their definition of learning. #thread 1/n 🧵 ⬇️
They want to believe that learning is about memorising a linear sequence of 'knowledge items' so they can say that 'progression' is about moving along that line. ('Curriculum is the progression model'). 2/n ⬇️
But learning in the early years definitely doesn't work like that. It's about care and development, not just about subject-based learning. Child development isn't linear, nor is it just about memory. 3/n ⬇️
Early development a messy, complex, multifaceted thing where children might be learning lots of different things and developing in lots of different ways during a single activity. 4/n ⬇️
So unless @Ofstednews are willing to move away from their linear, subject-based model where learning is seen as 'remembering more stuff', we will keep seeing confusion around curriculum in the #EYFS. 5/n ⬇️
p.s. I don't think their definition of learning works for other phases either but I'm going to stick to the early years because that's where I work atm. /Ends
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