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Time to Talk: Part 1
We are a multilingual family of six with English and Danish spoken at home, and Irish in school and preschool. My husband and I are in a parent-teacher meeting on zoom with our daughter’s first class teacher. After a lovely and warm report on our daughter’s academic and social skills, I ask him how she
Bilingual voices – reflections on practice
When I got my first ‘real job’ in an early years setting in Ireland, I was appointed a preschool room leader and asked to begin in early September one year. I remember being very excited about my new role and having ideas for what games I could play with the children and imagining what we
It’s my name!
When I heard Denise Chaila’s song ‘Chaila,’ I could relate. I have a Serbian name: Milica – pronounced Mill-its-uh – it’s not Melissa, Melisha, Vanessa, Melicka, Militsea. I always have my name mispronounced and misspelled. Even when I correct people, it is often mispronounced, and I have family members and long-term friends that still misspell
Action research in action
‘Before I began my academic journey, I would have never viewed myself as a real researcher; that was someone far more professional than me- possibly a woman in a white coat! Yet, with my new knowledge, training and unpacking my beliefs about researchers, I came to realise that maybe I could be in fact one
Action research: a transformative experience
When I began the BA in Early Childhood Teaching and Learning in Maynooth University back in 2019 I was aware that our dissertation involved action research but had no clue what this actually involved. I then discovered that action research is a cyclical process which combines changes to practice, reviewing literature, blogs and resources regarding
Action research, my story
Continuing our series on the contribution action research can make to quality, Debbie Mullen, from Early Childhood Ireland describes her first introduction to action research and how this has supported her work since then.
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