Aistear: the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework - Blogs
Date: 29-04-2025
The Early Childhood team in NCCA is developing a series of blogs to share insights on the recently updated Aistear: the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework.
The blogs will support educators, families and other interested stakeholders in becoming familiar with the new and enhanced concepts of the updated Framework.
The first blog in the series focuses on the Principles of Aistear and illustrates the importance of the Principles as the foundation for early learning and development for babies, toddlers and young children.
Other blogs to date look at the:
- Blog 2: The agentic educator in Aistear
- Blog 3: Aistear and the Irish language
- Blog 4: Aistear and the outdoors
- Blog 5: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Aistear
- Blog 6: Aistear and the Arts
- Blog 7: Emergent numeracy and Aistear
- Blog 8: Emergent literacy and Aistear
The final two blogs in this series will look at
- Blog 9: STEM in Aistear (May 7); and
- Blog 10: Transitions in Aistear (May 21)