{"id":392,"date":"2014-10-13T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2014-10-13T09:43:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T09:43:48","slug":"sarah-heads-to-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/sarah-heads-to-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah heads to Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sunday 12th October 2014<\/p>\n<p>After a day of travelling our I (Sarah &#8211; Manager in <a title=\"Crawford Childcare in Glanmire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crawfordchildcare.ie\" target=\"_blank\">Crawford Childcare in Glanmire<\/a>) \u00a0have reached my final destination for a study visit &#8211; Trondheim in Norway!\u00a0Norway has a reputation for high quality provision of childcare particularly in the areas of outdoors, men in childcare and inclusion. By accepting the placement I have agreed to share my learning through a number of mediums. Hopefully you will enjoy my updates over the week &#8211; I&#8217;ll be sure to keep you posted !<\/p>\n<p>I have been very fortunate in being one of 25 participants selected from across the country by <a title=\"Early Childhood Ireland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earlychildhoodireland.ie\" target=\"_blank\">Early Childhood Ireland<\/a> for a fully funded European mobility programme (VET PRO).Funding for the week long visit is by the European Union through the <a title=\" implementing European Union activities in the fields of education\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leargas.ie\" target=\"_blank\">Irish agency Leargas.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Objectives for Leargas VET PRO include:<br \/>\n&#8211; Funding for professional development of trainers within a vocational field &#8211; Early Childhood Care and Education.<br \/>\n&#8211; To allow the trainers to experience and observe best international practice with the aim of transferring the learning to others.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped that benefits of the study visit will include:<br \/>\n&#8211; Developing new networks nationally and internationally.<br \/>\n&#8211; Engagement in reflective practice.<br \/>\n&#8211; Connecting theory to practice.<br \/>\n&#8211; Improving quality in childcare.<br \/>\n&#8211; Continuous Professional Learning and Personal Development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sunday 12th October 2014 After a day of travelling our I (Sarah &#8211; Manager in Crawford Childcare in Glanmire) \u00a0have reached my final destination for a study visit &#8211; Trondheim in Norway!\u00a0Norway has a reputation for high quality provision of childcare particularly in the areas of outdoors, men in childcare and inclusion. By accepting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,55],"tags":[57,56],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawfordchildcare.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}