Conversations Episode 4: Snippet - "Education is never outside ethics" with Dr Anne Kennedy

Speaker 0 00:00:09 Yeah, Speaker 1 00:00:10 Podcast series for RAA members, hosted by <inaudible> and Cario new committee members and opportunity for rich thinking and dialogue as a context of continuous interaction between you and your colleagues. So, and can you perhaps explain to us what an ethics of an encounter would look like in practice? Oh, I've got a great example. I'd love to share with you. Um, a few years ago I was working in a target with a childcare since part of a research project. And I was in the center one morning. Um, with the, I think there were three to five room and the children in the center, many of them had very complex issues and were living with complex vulnerabilities and risk. So that morning had began, the children were settled and I guess it was 45 minutes into the session into the morning. And, um, Billy arrived with grandma, uh, in othering terms. Speaker 1 00:01:13 Billy was a challenging job and grandma was probably challenging. So I was watching and thinking now what's going to happen here because there's a settle room and things wouldn't, these were children that took quite a bit of work to get them settled and, um, a strong focus on that relationships with them. And I watched the teacher experience, kindergarten teacher, she, she sold them come in the room. She went immediately to Billy. She embraced him and she looked at him and she said, I've been waiting for you. And I guess me sort of goosebumps sometimes when I think about it, because I was watching and I could see Billy warm and I could see grandma thorugh because grandma was not sure about this intervention, whether it was a good idea for ability to be in childcare. And she needed that kind of ethics of care and encounter every morning, I guess, that it didn't matter that she came late. It didn't matter that, um, there was a session or morning was in progress. The teacher had been waiting for her and for Billy and she, you know, the chaser confide that since that, you know, the day wouldn't be right with you, not here, that we all need you to be here. And we, we really, um, looking forward to working with you today. So that's a practical example of what every child should and every family should experience coming into any school, any early taught to that sense that people are waiting for them. That's that welcoming? That's that hospitality that's that philoxenia love of stranger.