This Early years Framework is a very long way from being a 'manual of practice', and it will likely disappoint those who are looking for such a document.as the great scientist and humanitarian Albert Einstein once poignantly wrote' 'the world we have created is a product of our thinking. If we want to change the world,we have to change our thinking.....we can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them .:'(our italics) thus,to have uncritically ' bought into' the curricular,stipulatory ideology of the EYFS by creating a 'better EYFS' would have been to merely reinforce the current malaise,rather than aspiring to transcend it.
Many people are now striving to embrace a new paradigm,but ways of thinking can take much longer to change ; after all,most of us have been strongly conditioned into 'separative' and compartmentalized thinking . To give an example,we may recognise that play is nature 's fun
fundamental mode of learning, but to speak of 'directed' or 'structured' Play could be construed as a contradiction of that understanding .In the early years at least,it is important for there to be a clearer understanding of what is meant by 'learning through
Play',where the multiple engagement of the child are give central place in showing the best way forward .Play might then be defined as all those activities which evoke in the young child a sense of well-being,which are related to potential,and which are seen to satisfy their internal developmental wishes and drivers -even though to us,these may still be mysterious.