Podcast 390, Liz Dunphy on Early Childhood Education (19-2-20)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I speak to Dr. Liz Dunphy, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education in Dublin City University's Institute of Education about her work. Among the topics we discuss are the following:

 

• Choosing a career in teaching over one in law
• Becoming interested in early childhood education
• Childcare and the growth of love by John Bowlby
• Her first teaching job
• Doing a Masters degree in education in Trinity College Dublin
• Offering professional development for teachers through the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation
• Children’s early experience of number as seen through a socio-cultural lens
• Looking at how the work of educational researchers complement each other rather than adopting a more polarised approach.
• Her research on early childhood education: mathematics, curriculum, and assessment
• How the area of early childhood education has evolved nationally and internationally over Liz’s career in education to date
• Play, Playful pedagogy, and playfulness
• James McGarrigle – psychologist and a student of Margaret Donaldson
• Why international models of early childhood education cannot be imported directly to Ireland
• Jerome Bruner
• Reggio Emilia model of early childhood education
• Why developments in the last five years have been positive for early childhood education and care
• Choosing a pre-school for your child
• The transition from non-compulsory to compulsory education
• The qualities she looks for in early childhood education practice
• The Katie Morag books with Mairi Hedderwick
• How teachers and children can establish a “shared world”
• Understanding the child from the perspective of their family
• Mathematics with reason: The emergent approach to primary mathematics by Sue Atkinson: 
• Assessment and record keeping in early childhood education settings
• Vivian Gussin Paley Mollie is Three. The Boy Who Would be a Helicopter. White Teacher was also mentioned: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88364.White_Teacher
• The Erikson Institute
• Herb Ginsburg