The National Quality Framework: The Musical!
In an all singing all dancing extravaganza, dynamic dramaturgical early childhood thespians, Dr Red Ruby Scarlet and Louise Dorrat, present a spectacular salubrious engagement with the National Quality Framework.
Grounded in poststructuralist theory, this piece of professional development is based on the questions:
- What counts as valid knowledge?
- Who decides?
- And 'in whose interest are they enacted?'
These questions asked by Patti Lather (1991) similarly appear on page 13 in Principle 5 of the EYLF, of which Dr Scarlet was an architect. Using everyday life examples - such as the infamous ‘Working Toward toast’, the constant debate about the ‘inappropriate footwear’ and the ’bum bag’, this performance goes off script to engage with the National Quality Framework in ways that are creative, fun and rigorous.
Get ready for an intellectual, ironic, engaging, toe tapping, hand clapping, finger snapping interactive performance festooned with favourite tunes including the smash hits ‘QIP’ (composed in collaboration with ABBA), ’The Assessor’ (composed in collaboration with The Family von Trapp) and ‘E.Y.L.F.’ (composed with The Village People).
You’ll be dancing away convinced that dramatic arts are valid knowledge and they are a useful way to engage with, build understandings, and make sense of, The National Quality Framework.
Written and performed by Dr Red Ruby Scarlet & Louise Dorrat
Suitable for: educators from early childhood and out of school hours services
Date: Wednesday 10 March (rescheduled from 25 March 2020)
Time: Doors will open at 6.30pm and the show will start at 7pm. Please note that due to the current pandemic, refreshments will not be available and the showtime will be reduced to one hour.
Venue: Karralyka theatre George Wood Performing Arts Centre at Yarra Valley Grammar, 84-90 Kalinda Road, Ringwood.. Enter via Gate A & parking is available on the right-hand side. Original tickets are still valid upon entry and staff will assist with seating.
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About the presenters - Dr Red Ruby Scarlet & Louise Dorrat
 Dr Red Ruby Scarlett
Dr Red Ruby Scarlet is an activist, early childhood teacher-researcher, consultant, artist and academic.
Red has been working in early childhood for over 25 years and is devoted to creative, imaginative, inclusive practices that promote dignity and integrity in early childhood.
Red has developed curriculum and learning frameworks nationally and internationally. She has won numerous awards for her teaching and advocacy.
 Louise Dorrat
Louise Dorrat has extensive experience in managing early year’s services, from Inclusion Support to Family Day Care and assisted in the set-up of the first Victorian Bush Kinder.
She has taught the Bachelor of Education at a number of Universities. She is contracted by organisations such as Federal and State Governments, Children’s Ground, ELAA, Child Australia and Gowrie to deliver training across Australia. Louise’s presentations are at once engaging and informative.
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