EDENN  hosted a Conference:

‘We Make the Road by Walking’

Working Together to Support Diversity in Early Childhood Care and Education.
Ashling Hotel, Dublin
Thursday 25th February 2010
Linking Síolta, Aistear and the Diversity and Equality Guidelines for Providers.

This conference was essential for:

• Practitioners
• Policy Makers
• Lecturers and Educators
• Trainers
• National Voluntary Childcare Organisations
• Síolta Coordinators
• City and County Childcare Committees
• Visiting Teachers

The presentations and papers from the conference are now available online at:

http://pavee.ie/edenn/resources/edenn-conference-2010-we-make-the-road-by-walking

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Promoting gender equality in children – evaluation of a pilot project.
The traditional view is that childcare is ‘women’s work’ by encouraging men into the childcare sector challenges these prejudices and promotes equality in roles between men and women, both at home and in the early years environment.

In 2005, The Men in Childcare Pilot Project was carried out in order to introduce an innovative approach to gender mainstreaming at the early stages of a child’s life when attitudes to gender roles are being formed. The Project was developed to highlight the need to desegregate a gendered profession and was the first of its kind to be carried out in an Irish context.

- download pdf file (791 kb) men-in-childcare.pdf

Contact: Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies,
TCD, 28 Westland Row, Dublin 2.
Tel: 01 608 3505

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Bernard Van Leer Foundation: http://www.bernardvanleer.org/

CECDE Centre for Early Childhood Development and Education:  http://www.cecde.ie/

Diversity in Early Childhood Education and Training :http://www.decet.org/

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