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