If you are interested in how you can identify children’s empowering behaviours then the empowerment framework is for you!

The empowerment framework can be used as the basis for observing children’s play and activities.  Using examples of play and analysing them against the framework, supports possible lines of development, reflective thinking and professional development to understand children’s actions and interactions through an empowerment focus. 

The empowerment framework is important because often play is overlooked as something done between activities.  Play affords children opportunities to be themselves, explore and discover, create and be curious.  When children have a choice in what they do and how they do it, they demonstrate their interests and how they like to learn and develop.  The empowerment framework is a positive way to look for indicators of learning and helps plan and understand children better.