Éva Mikuska
Biographic Data
| ID | 6155738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Éva Mikuska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Éva |
| FAMILY NAME | Mikuska |
| SIGNATURE | MIKUSKA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chichester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2486-9643 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Forming a professional identity
This paper investigates graduates’ perceptions of quality provision in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). Drawing on qualitative data from former and final-year Early Childhood Studies (ECS) students across three English higher education institutions, the study explores how higher education and placement shape graduates’ approaches to and perceptions of quality when working with children from birth to five years of age. Freire's approach …
The impact of gender diversity on expression - the language of sexuality - how early childhood studies students understand the semantics of gender dysphoria
Gender diversity is a current and much debated topic. Students are entering university with contemporary meanings and beliefs around the use of language in the discussion of gender that can challenge traditional value systems surrounding biological determination. This qualitative research was carried out with Early Childhood Studies students by means of self-directed focus groups. The aims were to investigate students’ views on the language of ge…
String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care
Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality. This empirical paper employs a research‐creation methodology in combination with feminist materialist theory, notably Ha…
Language, self-esteem, and academic achievement
Through empirical evidence we have found that female students reflect their emotions through the language they use. This paper examines responses of 24 adult female students in higher education on Early Childhood Studies (ECS) programmes. It draws on qualitative interview data from a recent research project and interactions in meetings. The aim of the research was to determine the views of students on perceived benefits of higher education to the…
Fairchild, N., Taylor, C. A., Benozzo, A., Carey, N., Koro, M., & Elmenhorst, C. (2022). Knowledge production in academic spaces. Disturbing conferences and composing events
In this unique book the authors debate the many aspects of (post)human / more-than-human / materialist / feminist materialist aspects of the AcademicConferenceMachine. In their ‘co-argument’ the authors address how the traditional can be resisted. The specificities of conference performances introduced in this book illuminates new, creative forms of knowledge production and its presentation. The events in the book provide provocations of what aud…
Conversation with My Classmates
Serbia is a country with a long tradition of emigration. The increase in the number of displaced people sharply rose in 1992 when all the diplomatic options to preserve Yugoslavia had failed. The ensuing ethnic conflict resulted in mass mobilization by young adults who were required to go to war, mainly against their will. The main purpose of the paper is twofold: to draw attention to the key challenges that displacement plays on individuals and …
Thinking through the lens of dialogical self, I positions and intersectionality for exploring how Hungarian kindergarten pedagogues experienced the new Curriculum Framework
In 2018 a new, more inclusive concept, of preschool education was adopted in Serbia with plans to implement the change from September 2019 to 2022. This paper examines how the national reform in Early Childhood Education (ECE) was perceived by Hungarian kindergarten pedagogues, who are the largest ethnic minority group in Vojvodina, Serbia. To consider the possible impact this change has on both kindergarten pedagogues and children the research a…
The first three weeks of lockdown in England
With the outbreak of COVID-19 being declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation, educators worldwide are facing a major challenge in how to adapt, become resilient, and to monitor/detect potential safeguarding issues amid nursery and school closures. Online communication between parents, children and early years practitioners/teachers rapidly became a new 'norm' during the first lockdown in the UK. This paper reports on quantitative and …
Co-constructions, co-performances and co-reflections in early years qualitative research
This study investigates our role as early years researchers in qualitative data analysis. We draw on our doctoral studies to address how the co-construction, co-performance and co-reflection of narratives elicit deeper and new understandings of early years workers in England, and how our life stories are co-produced through narrative inquiry. Employing a constructionist approach and building on Buitelaar theorisation of I-positions and the multi-…
Emotional labor, ordinary affects, and the early childhood education and care worker
This paper discusses society's lack of recognition of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) workforce as professionals, and its emotional impact that this deficit has on them. The concerns are that the role of the ECEC worker has been mainly conceptualized as maternal, where emotional labor is taken for granted and needs to be suppressed or harnessed as part of the caring role. This is at odds with successive government policy agenda whic…
Emotional labor, ordinary affects, and the early childhood education and care worker
This paper discusses society's lack of recognition of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) workforce as professionals, and its emotional impact that this deficit has on them. The concerns are that the role of the ECEC worker has been mainly conceptualized as maternal, where emotional labor is taken for granted and needs to be suppressed or harnessed as part of the caring role. This is at odds with successive government policy agenda whic…
Co-constructions, co-performances and co-reflections in early years qualitative research
This study investigates our role as early years researchers in qualitative data analysis. We draw on our doctoral studies to address how the co-construction, co-performance and co-reflection of narratives elicit deeper and new understandings of early years workers in England, and how our life stories are co-produced through narrative inquiry. Employing a constructionist approach and building on Buitelaar theorisation of I-positions and the multi-…
The first three weeks of lockdown in England
With the outbreak of COVID-19 being declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation, educators worldwide are facing a major challenge in how to adapt, become resilient, and to monitor/detect potential safeguarding issues amid nursery and school closures. Online communication between parents, children and early years practitioners/teachers rapidly became a new 'norm' during the first lockdown in the UK. This paper reports on quantitative and …
Co-constructions, co-performances and co-reflections in early years qualitative research
This study investigates our role as early years researchers in qualitative data analysis. We draw on our doctoral studies to address how the co-construction, co-performance and co-reflection of narratives elicit deeper and new understandings of early years workers in England, and how our life stories are co-produced through narrative inquiry. Employing a constructionist approach and building on Buitelaar theorisation of I-positions and the multi-…
Emotional labor, ordinary affects, and the early childhood education and care worker
This paper discusses society's lack of recognition of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) workforce as professionals, and its emotional impact that this deficit has on them. The concerns are that the role of the ECEC worker has been mainly conceptualized as maternal, where emotional labor is taken for granted and needs to be suppressed or harnessed as part of the caring role. This is at odds with successive government policy agenda whic…
Language, self-esteem, and academic achievement
Through empirical evidence we have found that female students reflect their emotions through the language they use. This paper examines responses of 24 adult female students in higher education on Early Childhood Studies (ECS) programmes. It draws on qualitative interview data from a recent research project and interactions in meetings. The aim of the research was to determine the views of students on perceived benefits of higher education to the…
Fairchild, N., Taylor, C. A., Benozzo, A., Carey, N., Koro, M., & Elmenhorst, C. (2022). Knowledge production in academic spaces. Disturbing conferences and composing events
In this unique book the authors debate the many aspects of (post)human / more-than-human / materialist / feminist materialist aspects of the AcademicConferenceMachine. In their ‘co-argument’ the authors address how the traditional can be resisted. The specificities of conference performances introduced in this book illuminates new, creative forms of knowledge production and its presentation. The events in the book provide provocations of what aud…
Conversation with My Classmates
Serbia is a country with a long tradition of emigration. The increase in the number of displaced people sharply rose in 1992 when all the diplomatic options to preserve Yugoslavia had failed. The ensuing ethnic conflict resulted in mass mobilization by young adults who were required to go to war, mainly against their will. The main purpose of the paper is twofold: to draw attention to the key challenges that displacement plays on individuals and …
Thinking through the lens of dialogical self, I positions and intersectionality for exploring how Hungarian kindergarten pedagogues experienced the new Curriculum Framework
In 2018 a new, more inclusive concept, of preschool education was adopted in Serbia with plans to implement the change from September 2019 to 2022. This paper examines how the national reform in Early Childhood Education (ECE) was perceived by Hungarian kindergarten pedagogues, who are the largest ethnic minority group in Vojvodina, Serbia. To consider the possible impact this change has on both kindergarten pedagogues and children the research a…
String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care
Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality. This empirical paper employs a research‐creation methodology in combination with feminist materialist theory, notably Ha…
The impact of gender diversity on expression - the language of sexuality - how early childhood studies students understand the semantics of gender dysphoria
Gender diversity is a current and much debated topic. Students are entering university with contemporary meanings and beliefs around the use of language in the discussion of gender that can challenge traditional value systems surrounding biological determination. This qualitative research was carried out with Early Childhood Studies students by means of self-directed focus groups. The aims were to investigate students’ views on the language of ge…
Forming a professional identity
This paper investigates graduates’ perceptions of quality provision in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). Drawing on qualitative data from former and final-year Early Childhood Studies (ECS) students across three English higher education institutions, the study explores how higher education and placement shape graduates’ approaches to and perceptions of quality when working with children from birth to five years of age. Freire's approach …
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (4 works) · Early childhood education (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)