Many educational theorists advocate a practitioner gaining a detailed knowledge of children through observation. But it’s not just the children who are used to being filmed during their routine nursery day at the Pen Green Centre in Corby, Northamptonshire. Practitioners are too. Video, says joint head of centre Tracy Gallagher, is ‘part of the culture’ and not only used for supporting observations of children but also as a professional development experience with staff filming each other and reflecting on their pedagogical practice together.’
‘The beauty of a video is that you can watch it over and over again,’ says Ms Gallagher. ‘A video can be slowed down frame by frame to see the subtleties of movement and body language.’
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