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Determine the views of infant educators regarding the manner in which infants and toddlers are referred to in the EYLF and the consequences for their educational practice. .
Acknowledgements must go to the infant educators who contributed their valuable time and knowledge to enable this research to be conducted.
A separate curriculum for children under 2 years would serve to highlight to the specialist nature of the work being undertaken by infant educators.
The fact that the EYLF appears to focus on older children has proven to be a challenge for infant educators who are attempting to interpret and implement the document in ways that are responsive to the children in their care.
The data were read and margin notes were made to identify key points related to participants' perspectives about the EYLF curriculum document to inform their pedagogy and practice as infant educators.
The lack of reference to infants and toddlers in the EYLF was experienced by some educators as indicative of a general lack of status and recognition of their specialised role as infant educators.
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The researchers' collective review of reflective interview data, enabled a 'wholeness' approach to research methodology as discussed by Hedegaard (2008), Li (2014) and Li et al. (2016), and gave better understanding of the perezhivanie (wholly lived emotional experience) of infants, educator and director within the LDC babies' room environment.
Of particular relevance are research findings that infant-toddler educators often feel marginalised from others working with older children (Clark and Baylis 2012).
We saw this as perezhivanie experienced by the three infants, with educator and researcher.
Table 2 Analysis of researchers' dialogue commentary Dialogue commentary Infants'engagement Educator's interaction Pedagogical strategies A Self-initiated music performance Aware and responsive at all times Percussion instruments made available Three babies respond to one another through senses – moving, seeing, hearing - rhythm, gaze, sound.
The infant and toddler educators were asked to evaluate the most important circumstances for children's learning and rank them.
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