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Early Childhood Education and Care News
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April 6, 2021
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Kia ora, this week how and when COVID-19 vaccinations will be administered and what happens if you refuse to get the jab. Also, we've got the lowdown on neuro-linguistic programming in early learning.
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Compulsory COVID vaccinations…?
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Vaccination is a hot-button issue for many New Zealanders, but never in our lifetime has it been so much at the forefront of our collective conversations.
Given the current rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination throughout the country, questions are being asked about how the vaccine will be administered, who it will be given to, and how the availability of the vaccine will affect the lives and rights of individuals who choose not to be vaccinated.
This week we are looking at the status of early childhood staff and the COVID-19 vaccine.
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NLP in early education
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Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP): It sounds like a form of brainwashing, some kind of science-fiction hypnosis technique used by Tom Cruise to reprogram your brain for a particular (probably nefarious) purpose. But what is it really?
The reality is far less worrisome and could even be considered promising, when you take into account the benefits it can provide for both educators/teachers and children in early childhood education and care.
The technical definition describes neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) as "purported systematic, cybernetic links between a person's internal experience (neuro), their language (linguistic) and their patterns of behaviour (programming)" – Neuro-linguistic programming: its potential for learning and teaching in formal education, Tosey and Mathison, 2003.
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me as I don't speak PhD, so I did a bit more digging to understand what NLP actually is and how it works. This is the lowdown:
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