Sharpening a shared vision of children

World Children’s Day – 20th November 2020 Misconceptions of children and childhood have prevailed since the 17th-18th Enlightenment period. From a puritan view of the child to assuming infants enter the world as blank slates, a passive, inherently innocent and somewhat virtuous positioning saturated an outdated social construct of childhood. Whilst clouding societies vision, the […]

Starting Strong

The very first piece of the Early Childhood Education & Care (ECEC) career puzzle… According to the European Commission/EACEA/Eurydice (2019), one-third of children under the age of 3 years attend an Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) setting. That is, 5 million young children across 38 European countries are currently spending most of their day […]