Poster: The Journey of the Early Childhood Student (Phase 2: Mattering and the Early Childhood Student).

Metrics offer useful information about the student journey through the Early Childhood (Q89) programme, but there is less insight into the ‘lived experiences’ (Frechette et al., 2020) of students, including the barriers and enablers, as they move through the programme and develop an ‘Early Childhood’ identity. This identity is important in terms of their work with young children and the impact they can have. The proposed project is the second stage of a longitudinal study (Phase 1 began in 23J) which will address issues of underrepresented groups on the programme in terms of achievement, retention and progression.