![]() ![]() Play and playfulness are valued and kaiako-initiated experiences are inviting and enjoyable. In an empowering environment, children have agency to create and act on their own ideas, develop knowledge and skills in areas that interest them and, increasingly, to make decisions and judgments on matters that relate to them. These expand the children’s competence and confidence and, over time, enable them to direct their own lives. Kaiako have an important role in encouraging and supporting all children to participate in and contribute to a wide range of enriching experiences. This means recognising their rights to have their wellbeing promoted and be protected from harm and to experience equitable opportunities for participation and learning and for rest and play. To learn and develop to their potential, children must be respected and valued. Mana is the power of being and must be upheld and enhanced. Viewed from a Māori perspective, all children are born with mana inherited from their tīpuna. This principle means that every child will experience an empowering curriculum that recognises and enhances their mana and supports them to enhance the mana of others. Mā te whāriki e whakatō te kaha ki roto i te mokopuna, ki te ako, kia pakari ai tana tipu. Principle 4 Relationships | Ngā honongaĮarly childhood curriculum empowers the child to learn and grow.Principle 3 Family and community | Whānau tangata.Principle 2 Holistic development | Kotahitanga.This stimulates a climate of reciprocity, ‘listening’ to children (even if they cannot speak), observing how their feelings, curiosity, interest, and knowledge are engaged in their early childhood environments, and encouraging them to make a contribution to their own learning." Smith (2007) " children are valued as active learners who choose, plan, and challenge. These principles are the foundations of curriculum decision making and a guide for every aspect of pedagogy and practice. The curriculum is underpinned by four principles: Empowerment | Whakamana, Holistic development | Kotahitanga, Family and community | Whānau tangata, and Relationships | Ngā hononga. This whakataukī encourages mokopuna to stand strong, proud in the knowledge that they are the embodiment of all those who have gone before them. Content from pages 17–21 of Te Whāriki: Early Childhood Curriculum ![]()
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