Tag: teaching
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From Practice to Policy: How to Read and Understand Any Early Years Framework
Policy frameworks shape how we understand and deliver early learning, and therefore shape the environments in which we teach, learn, and care. They can feel overwhelming: long documents filled with technical language, statutory requirements, and strategic aims that do not always translate easily into classroom practice. In an earlier post I covered what has changed…
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Whose Story Gets Told? Curriculum, Identity and Exclusion in Romania
It did not take me long to decide that I wanted to write my Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) paper on Romania’s national history curriculum. History education is a deeply political and highly debated subject around the world, and for me, this topic goes beyond a mere academic exercise. Being a Hungarian minority raised in Romania,…
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How I Found My Passion for Education, Research, and Equity
Growing up in Romania, I observed how a child’s access to education was frequently affected by factors beyond their control. My father’s involvement in humanitarian work exposed me to the efforts of charities supporting underserved communities from an early age. During my teenage years, I began volunteering, which included teaching children from the Roma community in my free time.…