The photograph submitted as part of Trinity College Dublin's Green Week competition, titled “Mindfulness,” captures a deeply personal and reflective moment.
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.
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.
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.
County childcare boards across Ireland work collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders in the early childcare community to promote and supply equality of access and participation to affordable programs that support the holistic development and well-being of all children.
Once upon a time, storytelling was how people learned about their history and came to make sense of their world. I argue that this tradition of learning through storytelling is as powerful now as it was over 2000 years ago.