We have launched the 'Open Early Years Education' (Open Eye) campaign to highlight the damaging effects that the EYFS is likely to have on early learning in England, and have already received tremendous support for the concerns and aims articulated in our founding Open Letter (Nursery World, 6 December).
We believe the EYFS is based upon contestable assumptions and misunderstandings about early development, together with key internal contradictions, which render it philosophically incoherent and practically unworkable.
The 'Unique Child' principle, for example, is fundamentally undermined by the expectation that children 'should have acquired (the early learning goals) by the end of the academic year in which they reach five' (p11, para2.3 of the EYFS Statutory Framework).
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