Our intent is to provide high quality early childhood professional learning opportunities that uphold the principles of equity, social justice and the mandates of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Asia Pacific Early Childhood Consultants is interested in supporting early childhood professionals to re-imagine the work they undertake with children.

We see APECC as a critical friend that respectfully challenges long held beliefs, looks at the familiar in new ways, helps you see what you cannot yet see and support individuals and teams to be the best they can be.

We are also interested in promoting an interpretive and contextual understanding of a range of respected approaches to early childhood, including the key principles of the Reggio Emilia Educational Project, with specific reference to honouring children, professional inquiry, educational documentation and the impact of the physical and temporal environment. We respect that the ideas lent to us by colleagues in other contexts are their intellectual property, and we refer to these ideas to develop our own interpretations and actions in order to translate them in to other contexts and cultural nuances. 

In 2025 we will begin to collaborate with early childhood communities on the notion of slow pedagogy and the approach we take to time within our early childhood settings. Our aim is to examine children's right to 'slow time' in order to reclaim the essence of being present with children, their ideas, their theories, and their thinking.

With these aspirations in mind, APECC would like to engage early childhood professionals in dialogue and debate about professional practice, educational research and quality, from a range of settings in Australia, SE Asia and beyond.

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