Australian Child Care: EYLF and National Quality Framework

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Under the Australian standards and guidelines of pedagogy, there is a set of framework
that acts as a prospectus that has a set of rules, principles, regulations, practices and five main
learning results along with the tertiary results based on identity, learning and communication and
well being of the Australian children named EYLF, or Early Years Learning Framework (Fleer,
Shah, and Peers, 2013). The respective paper is an essay that extensively researches on the
National Quality Framework, the National Quality Standard and applicable learning frameworks
with special reference to EYLF or Early Years Learning Framework on the guidelines of
Australian pedagogy and how it can affect the children, their families and the service providers.
“Belonging, Being and Becoming” is a gospel phrase for the pedagogical program of
EYLF in the Australian country. As the first national pedagogical framework for early childhood
educators and tutors, EYLF, or Early Years Learning Framework is popular and significant
throughout the nation. The National Quality Standard, which is a set of guidelines for early
childhood tutors made in order to develop qualitative educational programs for young children
and toddlers, is also linked and embedded with the EYLF framework. The National Quality
Standard also describes early childhood pedagogy and outcomes that provide goals for the
learning stages of the young children (Jones and Harcourt, 2013).
The purpose of EYLF is to enhance and enrich the educational experience of the toddlers
and very young children from the age 0 to age 5 and throughout the transition to school (Tayler,
Cloney and Niklas, 2015). It assists and supports the educators to build such educational and
learning programs for the young children that would create a platform for interactive learning
which maximizes their learning potentials and establish a fundamental basis of learning for their
future. The EYLF is based on the conclusive international evidence which echoes the very fact
that early childhood plays a very vital role in the growth and development of children’s learning

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and education. Early childhood education is important because it has been proved that it can
influence mental, emotional and physical development of a child that might help him or her to
shape his or her cognitive senses, abilities and competencies for the near future. The respective
mentioned framework ensures that children in all early childhood education and care settings
throughout Australia experience quality teaching and learning. EYLF framework provides
special emphasis to the play based learning and their outcomes and recognizes the importance of
communication and language in pedagogical practice. The cognitive, social and emotional
development of the young children and their learning are the factors that are highlighted in the
respective framework.
National Quality Framework possesses a regulatory body named National Regulations
(Australia) which has set forth the National Quality Standard. Providing a safe haven for the
children, along with their health and well being with high standard educational activities are
taken up by the framework in order to receive maximum positive outcomes along with greater
understanding by services and families as they have the capability to distinguish between service
and quality service. Throughout Australia, the frameworks and the standards, the National
Quality Standard provides a nationally consistent and constructive. Premium programs and
activities of child care across the country which also has national quality ratings and assessment
processes to judge their abilities.
The frameworks and guidelines of EYLF can create positive effects on the children as
well as their families. The families of the children who are taught according to the guidelines of
EYLF feel positive when they are able to see positive changes in their children regarding their
cognitive abilities and competencies (Lemon and Garvis, 2014). The families and the caregivers
too, can learn dime-a-dozen guidelines from the learning outcomes of EYLF. Children have a