Learning and Teaching in Early Childhood Pedagogies of Inquiry and Relationships

This concluding chapter creatively and authentically synthesises the book’s key concepts and ideas to consider how our connections with people and places are foundational to the collaborative and inquiring nature of teaching and learning in early childhood contexts. Exemplars of early childhood teachers’ practice are shared to explore the possibilities and challenges they face in their daily working lives. This chapter provides a rich, descriptive narrative for readers to garner the inspiration and confidence to understand their own teaching philosophies and values, and to reflectively and purposefully make a difference in the lives of the children, families and communities of which they are a part.