Ethics in early childhood: Continuing the conversations

The development of the AECA Code of Ethics has been a significant achievement for the field of early childhood in Australia. Importantly, it has placed ethical issues on the agenda and provided a language and framework in which to publicly raise and discuss ethical concerns. However, codification is only one approach to raising ethics awareness and resourcing the kinds of conversations that ethical engagement in a profession might require. More recent developments in the emergent applied ethics and feminist ethics have expanded the range of resources now available for thinking that might usefully contribute to enriching the early childhood field's engagement with ethics.