BECERID
A Blog as open learning platform for the field of Early Childhood Education about Research and Innovation to support Disadvantaged and Diverse children
Description

 Building upon an earlier successful Flemish project (Kleuterblog, KULeuven, Sept. 2014-Aug. 2016) that resulted in a popular blog platform about research and innovation in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), BECERID (Erasmus + KA2) aims to support both teachers and teacher educators to adopt innovative practices to deal with the topic of diversity in the classroom. The project will launch a blog in each partner country (the Netherlands, Portugal, Poland) on a diversity and social inclusion in ECEC for teacher educators of ECEC teachers and ECEC teachers to increase their knowledge of research-based insights, awareness of social inclusion, and positive attitude towards research and innovation. A European blog platform will be set up in English which serves as an exchange platform between the national blogs.

     The messages on the blogs will be translated to social media platforms that ECEC teachers already use for their own professionalization (e.g. Pinterest, LinkedIn, Facebook, twitter) to interact with them and share insights and reflections about research and innovation. The project contributes to high quality ECEC by strengthening the learning community of teachers, teacher educators, and other stakeholders who will gain a better insight into research-based practices and innovations to support disadvantaged and diverse children.

     The key person involved in the project from ISCTE-IUL is Cecília Aguiar, a full member researcher at CIS and assistant professor at Department of Social and Organizational Psychology. Tânia Boavida, a full member at CIS, and two doctoral students, Nadine Correia and Margarida Fialho, are also the part of the BECERID team.

 

Challenge

This project focuses on two important groups within the field of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC):

 

(1) ECEC teachers, defined here as professionals that directly work with young children between the ages 0-6 in the context of Early Childhood Education and Care provisions.

(2) teacher educators, i.e. teacher educators from the initial teacher training in the field of ECEC, teacher coaches or trainers during inservice professionalization of ECEC teachers, and researchers who include professionalization in their interventions.

Internal Partners
Research Centre Research Group Role in Project Begin Date End Date
CIS-Iscte Community, Education and Development Partner 2018-11-07 2018-11-07
External Partners
Institution Country Role in Project Begin Date End Date
Odisee vzw (Odisee vzw) Belgium Leader 2017-12-31 2020-08-30
UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI (UNIWARSAW) Afghanistan Partner -- --
Utrecht University (UU) Netherlands Partner -- --
Instituto Politécnico do Porto (IPP) Portugal Partner -- --
INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE LISBOA (INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE LISBOA) Portugal Partner -- --
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (KU LEUVEN) Belgium Partner -- --
THOMAS MORE KEMPEN VZW (THOMAS MORE KEMPEN VZW) Belgium Partner -- --
Stichting CED-Groep (Stichting CED-Groep) Netherlands Partner -- --
STICHTING FONTYS (STICHTING FONTYS) Netherlands Partner -- --
Instytut Komenskiego sp.z o.o. sp k. (Instytut Komenskiego sp.z o.o. sp k.) Poland Partner -- --
Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii (Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii) Poland Partner -- --
Project Team
Name Affiliation Role in Project Begin Date End Date
Cecília Aguiar Professora Associada (DPSO); Integrated Researcher (CIS-Iscte); Principal Researcher 2018-11-07 2018-11-07
Ana Margarida Batista Fialho -- Researcher 2017-12-31 2020-12-30
Lígia Monteiro Professora Auxiliar (DPSO); Integrated Researcher (CIS-Iscte); Researcher 2017-12-31 2020-12-30
Nadine Correia Associate Researcher (CIS-Iscte); Researcher 2018-11-07 2020-12-30
Project Fundings
Reference/Code Funding DOI Funding Type Funding Program Funding Amount (Global) Funding Amount (Local) Begin Date End Date
2017-1-be02-ka201-034755 -- Contract Comissão europeia - Erasmus+ - Belgium 378987.95 50514.45 2017-12-30 2020-08-30
Publication Outputs
Year Publication Type Full Reference
2021 Talk Barros, S., Santos, M. , Pessanha, M., Sanches-Ferreira, M., Peixoto, C. , Aguiar, C....Monteiro, L. (2021). O Projeto Erasmus+ BECERID e o blogue PrimeirosAnos.pt: ligações entre a investigação e a prática. Fórum inED’21 – Pensar a Educação pelos Olhares da Investigação.
2021 Talk Taelman, H., Correia, N., Callaert, J., , Aguiar, C., Wysłowska, O., Marchlik, P....Bekkering, C. (2021). EarlyYearsBlog.Eu. EECERA Online Festival 2021.
2019 Non-peer-reviewed papers Correia, N., Aguiar, C., Almeida, T. , Barros, S., Boavida, T., Peixoto, C. ...Santos, M. (2019). “PrimeirosAnos.pt”: Um blogue sobre educação de infância baseado em investigação. Cadernos de Educação de Infância. 117, 37-38
2019 Talk Aguiar, C., Correia, N., Almeida, T. , Barros, S., Boavida, T., Peixoto, C. ...Santos, F. M. S. (2019). PrimeirosAnos.pt: A blog about early childhood education based on research. Porto ICRE'19 - Porto International Conference on Research in Education 2019.
2019 Talk Barros, S., Correia, N., Aguiar, C., Almeida, T. , Pessanha, M., Peixoto, C. ...Fialho, A. (2019). Linking research and practice in early childhood education through the blog PrimeirosAnos.pt. EECERA 29th Annual Conference.
2019 Talk Correia, N., Aguiar, C., Almeida, T. , Barros, S., Boavida, T., Peixoto, C. ...Santos, M. (2019). PrimeirosAnos.pt: A Portuguese blog linking research and practice in early childhood education. Equality & Inclusion Conference.
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With the objective to increase the research activity directed towards the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the possibility of associating scientific projects with the Sustainable Development Goals is now available in Ciência_Iscte. These are the Sustainable Development Goals identified for this project. For more detailed information on the Sustainable Development Goals, click here.

A Blog as open learning platform for the field of Early Childhood Education about Research and Innovation to support Disadvantaged and Diverse children
2017-12-31
2020-12-30