“How did you know how we felt?”: All professional development should be a musical!

The National Quality Framework – The Musical! does stuff. It is many things and does many things. In this womanuscript, the authors play with what they do with what it does in the context of professionalism in early childhood education. As a scripted piece of affective embodied pedagogy, they re-enact some of the ways it complexly, absurdly and powerfully contributes to figuring professionalism in early childhood education. They think of it as a ‘speculative fabulation’ in that it is a messy intraentwinglement of the political, philosophical, litigious, regulatory, policy, practical and technical theatrescapes that have been herstorically throwntogether to create what has come to be believed as the profession of early childhood education. The National Quality Framework – The Musical! undoes the truth of logic and reconfigures the early childhood profession as the messy intraentwinglement that it is. The authors think that it does what the call for papers asked for. If not, they hope that you enjoy it anyway, and that it does something. The show must go on …