Early Childhood Ireland's Podcast
Early Childhood is the leading national children’s advocacy and membership organisation. We work in partnership with Early Years, School Age Care and Childminding settings to ensure that every child is thriving and learning. We advocate for an effective and inclusive system which values, supports and invests in childhood, children and services.
Our Vision is that every child is thriving and learning in quality Early Years and School Age Care in centre-based and Childminding settings.
Our Mission is to champion quality for children in Early Years, School Age Care and Childminding settings, through our work with our members and on the system.
Early Childhood Ireland's Podcast
Exploring EECERA 2023, with Fiona Kelleher
In this episode Fiona Kelleher, from Early Childhood Ireland speaks to us about the European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) Conference held recently in Lisbon. She chats about what Early Childhood Ireland brought to the event, what we gained from it and how we are sharing these learnings with our members. She outlines the various research projects the Early Childhood Ireland delegation presented on and the keynote speakers who addressed the conference. She provided details of the NCCA Updating Aistear Consultation with babies, toddlers and young children, with which Early Childhood Ireland is involved as a partner with Maynooth University and Stranmillis College. This is the research Fiona presented on at EECERA. You can read the report here https://ncca.ie/media/6220/consultationreport.pdf