Early Childhood Ireland's Podcast

Continuing the Early Childhood Ireland’s podcast series on Communicating, in this episode, Máire Corbett has a conversation with Jackie Maguire, Early Years artist and consultant, about how music is one of the hundred languages of children, along with ways to introduce children to the joy of music. This series of Early Childhood Ireland's podcast is proudly supported by Arachas Insurance.

In this episode of the Communicating series, Dr Francesca La Morgia, from Mother Tongues, discusses how we create an environment that welcomes multiple home languages, and how we can support meaningful communication where language is a barrier. We also talk about supporting parents and educators to feel confident about using their home language and how this supports a sense of identity and belonging and pride in their heritage among children. This series of Early Childhood Ireland's podcast is proudly supported by Arachas Insurance.

In this episode from our STEAM series, Sandra O’Neill, from Dublin City University discusses what STEAM means in early childhood, outlines some barriers to the introduction of these areas to children and explores some simple ways we can start to ensure children see these subjects as fun and playful.

In this series of Early Childhood Ireland’s podcast, we are looking at Communicating. We are familiar with the Reggio Emilia term The Hundred Languages of Children. So, over the coming episodes we will look at some of the ways in which children communicate and how we can support this more in settings. In the first episode of this series, we are joined by Cliodhna Noonan, Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Technological University, who discusses how storytelling extends children’s oral language skills and encourages their creativity. This series of Early Childhood Ireland's podcast is proudly supported by Arachas Insurance.

In the final episode of this series Dr Leah O’Toole, Assistant Professor in Early Childhood Education in the Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education, Maynooth University and Sylwia O’Rourke Early Years tutor and graduate of the BA in Early Childhood Teaching and Learning discuss the benefits of action research and identifies next steps for educators. Early Childhood Ireland's podcast is supported by Arachas Insurance.