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The INTENT Framework is a transformative, evidence based system designed to empower parents and educators with the tools, strategies, and structured support needed to unlock every child’s full potential.
Developed through the forthcoming doctoral research of founder and visionary Andrea Yankah, the framework is both rigorous and evolving. It bridges research, reflection, and real world practice.
Rooted in the belief that every child enters the world with a unique purpose and innate genius, the INTENT Framework recognises that nurturing this potential is the responsibility of the entire village.
By laying strong developmental foundations, protecting curiosity, and cultivating creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving, children are empowered to take their place in the world with confidence, agency, and preparedness.
Pathways of Delivery
The INTENT Pathway is delivered through three aligned routes:
The Parent Pathway
Supporting parents to intentionally nurture their children at home, aligning daily decisions with their values and their child’s developmental stage.
The Pedagogue Pathway
Equipping educators to apply the framework meaningfully within learning environments, developing reflective, intentional, and research informed practice.
Parent Plus Pathway
Creating alignment around the child.
The Parent Plus Pathway integrates both routes. Parents receive structured coaching while their nanny or educator enrols in the Pedagogue Pathway. We provide professional supervision and guidance to ensure shared language, shared vision, and consistent implementation across home and care.
Together, these pathways rebalance power, strengthen collaboration, and align home and school around the child.
INTENT Monthly Themes Overview
An orientation to the INTENT philosophy, the spiral model, and its practical application across home and educational settings.
Pedagogy and Philosophy
Exploring the educational philosophies underpinning INTENT and developing your personal guiding principles as a parent or educator.
Reclaiming Play
Understanding the critical role of play in learning and development. Learning to observe children in their natural state to better understand who they are, how they learn, and what they need.
Whole-listic Development
Exploring child development through an African centred lens, integrating cognitive, emotional, physical, spiritual, and social development to nurture the whole child.
Fundamentals of Learning
Unpacking how children truly learn beyond compliance, memorisation, and performance, and how to create environments that support deep and meaningful learning.
Safeguarding
Empowering children with the knowledge, confidence, and skills to keep themselves safe in an increasingly complex world.
Creativity
Protecting and nurturing children’s innate creativity so it is not diminished through standardisation, fear, or over control.
Critical Thinking
Facilitating questioning, reasoning, discernment, and independent thought, preparing children to navigate information, power, and choice.
Problem-Posing Education
An action oriented approach that positions children as thinkers and change makers rather than passive recipients of knowledge.
The Politics of Education
Understanding the broader social, historical, and political contexts shaping education and identifying where agency and resistance are possible.
Effective Collaboration Between Educators and Parents
Rebalancing power between home and school and building intentional partnerships in service of the child.
Towards a Utopia
Imagining and actively building a more just and humane world through education.