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Early Childhood Ireland's Podcast
Updated Aistear: Principles, with Fiona Kelleher
In a new series of Early Childhood Ireland's podcast, we are exploring the recently Updated Aistear. In this episode, Fiona Kelleher, from Early Childhood Ireland tells us about the consultation process carried out with babies, toddlers and young children as part of the updating process. She discusses some key findings and shows how these findings influenced the updated Principles of Aistear.
The reports Fiona mentioned on the Consultations with babies, toddlers and young children can be read here.
These consultations were conducted by Early Childhood Ireland, Maynooth University and Stranmillis University College, on behalf of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment.