Congratulations to all of our PhD and D.Ed students who graduated. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavours. This year’s doctoral commencement at Trinity College Dublin was a momentous occasion, filled with pride, joy, and a sense of accomplishment.
June 14th, 2024, marked a day that I will cherish forever, my PhD graduation. It was a culmination of intense study, sleepless nights, and (for much of it) not really knowing what I was doing.
Dyslexia is a word used to describe a learning disability that commonly affects reading, writing and related skills, such as the use of language, articulation and grammar. However, this blog will not examine reading, writing or language use. Instead, it highlights the impact of dyslexia on self-esteem.
To summarise a complex topic, all humans think it is our nature to do so, but left unexamined, thinking can be biased, misinformed and prejudiced. Socratic questioning in education is a way of questioning that minimise the chance that student will accept information at face value.
In this week's Scéalta, Catherine O'Reilly, PhD research student at Trinity College Dublin, discusses how critical thinking relates to early childhood and how we can use storytelling to give children in Early Years settings the same opportunities as older children to learn how to communicate, collaborate, be creative and engage in problem-solving.
Have you ever wondered how educators decide to teach the way they teach and why they use the practices they adopt in the classroom to support learning and development? There are many ways to answer this question; your answer will be influenced by your knowledge of the educational system and your values, beliefs and hopes of how your children will experience their time in school.
This beautifully illustrated book is a story portraying sadness and grief. It is written carefully and honestly by an author who took his own suffering and used it to support others to understand that sadness is real and we do not need to hide it.
I started February off by submitting an abstract (fingers crossed) for the European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) 2023 conference in Lisbon, which is taking place from August 30th to September 2nd. This year's theme is Children's Curiosity, Agency and Participation.
This new book by Aoife Dooley, Frankie’s World, is a graphic novel where Aoife takes us on a journey with Frankie, an 11-year-old girl who tries to fit into an often unaccepting world.
Teaching in the early years is about letting children be curious, explore, ask questions and wonder about everything around them. For example, have you ever asked yourself what way a child who does not communicate verbally might think about the world they are growing up in?