Marlene Mccormack

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Marlene is a committed professional with a broad range of experience and expertise in the areas of practice, policy and provision in early childhood. She has worked extensively in practice, as educator, supervisor, manager and Director in both the community and private sectors. Over the past two decades she has been working in the Voluntary Sector, most recently as Head of the Knowledge Directorate in Early Childhood Ireland, leading a multi-professional team with responsibility for research, policy and communications. Much of her work has focused on advocacy for children and for the educators that work with them and their families at national level.  Marlene has been core to the development and very successful roll out of the BA in Early Childhood Teaching and Learning in Maynooth, where she has delivered a broad range of modules in the areas of policy and pedagogy.   

Invited papers

Year Publication
2017 Marlene McCormack (2017) The Development of an Early Childhood Education Degree. INVP

Blog

Year Publication
2018 Marlene McCormack (2018) Sustainability - Making a difference. BLOG

Published Report

Year Publication
2014 O'Dwyer & McCormack (2014) Quality through professionalisation:Local evaluation of the Tallaght National Early Years Access Initiative. Early Childhood Ireland, .
2014 O'Dwyer & McCormack (2014) Local evaluation of the South Dublin National Early Access Initiataive: Addressing the gaps between training and practice. Early Childhood Ireland, .

Conference Publication

Year Publication
2017 O'Connor, D., Robinson, C., McCormack, M. & O'Rourke, V. (2017) EDULEARN17 The influences of opportunity. Differences in children's play choices across diverse communities in Ireland
2017 O'Connor, D., Robinson, C., McCormack, M. & O'Rourke, V. (2017) INTED17 Is it time for the risky classroom?
2017 D. O'Connor, C. Robinson, M. McCormack, V. O'Rourke (2017) EDULEARN17 Boys and girls come out to play: Gender Differences in Children’s Play Patterns
2017 D. O'Connor, C. Robinson, M. McCormack, V. O'Rourke (2017) EDULEARN17 The age of imagination: imagining play and invention: implications for creative development
2016 O'Connor, D., Robinson, C., McCormack, M. & O'Rourke, V. (2016) EDULEARN 16 Let's get real: are today's children playing with nature?
2016 O'Connor, D., Robinson, C., McCormack, M. & O'Rourke, V. (2016) EDULEARN 16 Children's choices: the technology choices that chcildren make within their free time
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Professional Associations

Association Function From / To
Special Interest Group on Pedagogical Documentation - European Early Childhood Education Research Association To share research and learning among international accademics interested in this particular topic -

Committees

Committee Function From / To
Fingal County Childcare Committee -

Research Interests

Research interests include, documenting children's learning; play and learning through play; professional practice and in particular practicum.