{"id":843,"date":"2024-11-21T23:06:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T23:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains\/early-childhood-voices-conference-2024\/?p=843"},"modified":"2024-11-21T23:09:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T23:09:26","slug":"ecv2024-keynote-speaker-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains\/early-childhood-voices-conference-2024\/ecv2024-keynote-speaker-4\/","title":{"rendered":"ECV2024 – Keynote Speaker 4 – Embracing systems thinking to open conditions of possibility for the early childhood education workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Embracing systems thinking to open conditions of
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Tamara Cumming<\/strong>, Macquarie University, Australia (tamara.cumming@mq.edu.au)<\/p>\n

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Biography: <\/strong>Tamara Cumming is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Macquarie
University, Australia. Tamara\u2019s research focuses on the well-being and sustainability of Australia\u2019s
early childhood workforce, interprofessional practice, and the complexity of educators’ practice
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Abstract: <\/strong>The past five years have seen dramatic challenges for Australia\u2019s early childhood
education workforce. At the same time, there are also signs that long-required structural changes
are \u2013 at last \u2013 being seen as part of the responsibility of government rather than up to the mood of
the market to decide. In this presentation, I discuss how systems thinking \u2013 the idea that all parts
of a system are interconnected and interdependent \u2013 is evident in these moves, along with
possibilities these moves have opened, and might continue to open. I also discuss ways that
systems thinking challenges the emphasis of neo-liberal ideology on the individual, and the
influence of dominant discourses and binary thinking, that can restrict rather than open
possibilities. I will also draw on ways that systems thinking has influenced my own work on
educators\u2019 well-being and the sustainability of the early childhood workforce.<\/p>\n

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Implications for children and families:<\/strong> Your experiences in early childhood education benefit from
approaches that recognise how we are all connected to each other and the world, and why we
need to consider and care about everyone.<\/p>\n

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Implications for practitioners:<\/strong> Thinking about how you, the children, their families and society are
all interdependent helps everyone thrive now and into the future.<\/p>\n

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Key words<\/strong>: theory, well-being, workforce issues, sustainability<\/p>\n

This presentation relates to the following <\/strong>United Nations Sustainable Development Goals<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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