Early Years and Early Childhood
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Walsh, G., (2023) Review of Childcare Services in Northern Ireland: Final Report
Phase 1 of NCCA’s work to update Aistear: the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework included a consultation with babies, toddlers and young children. […]
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Walsh, G. (2021) Signalling Playfulness: Disguising work as play in the early years classroom
Play has been widely investigated from a practice-based perspective; playfulness as an effective pedagogical tool has received less attention. Over […]
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Walsh (2021) Play in Practice during the Pandemic: Summary Report
PlayBoard NI, Stranmillis University College and the Controlled Schools’ Support Council recently embarked on a collaborative research project to examine […]
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Walsh, G. (2021) Play in Practice during the Pandemic: Full Report
PlayBoard NI, Stranmillis University College and the Controlled Schools’ Support Council recently embarked on a collaborative research project to examine […]
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McClelland, D. and Purdy, N. (2021) Contested childhoods across borders and boundaries: Insights from curriculum provisions in Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State in the 1920s
Conceptualisations and constructs of children and childhood are temporally and contextually grounded. Historical documents are rich sources of insight and […]
Purdy, N., Ballentine, M., Lyle, H., Orr, K., Symington, E., Webster, D., York, L., (2023) Growing Up Online: Children’s online activities, harm and safety in Northern Ireland – an Evidence Report.
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Jones, Sharon (2023) The Shortest Way Home? A Geo-critical return to CS Lewis’s Prince Caspian
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