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Diary of an Early Childhood Studies Student: moving on

In her sixth and final blog for Nursery World, Kezia Thurgood-Parkes reveals her final marks and where she is beginning the first rung of her career

I left you in my last blog in the process of completing my dissertation and final year assignments amongst the chaos and uncertainty of Covid-19. Since then, a lot has changed, including receiving my final marks and feedback for the last assignments of this degree, while sadly the uncertainty of the global pandemic still remains.

My semester two assignments, my dissertation, and research, which made up the final hurdles of my third year seem a world away now. My first module and assignment was ‘Participation and Rights in Early Childhood’. This was made up of two parts: creating a poster and writing a literature review covering early childhood spaces, and discussing the political and social aspect of these places. I was so happy (and surprised!) to find out I achieved 72% in the module as this was probably one of the hardest assignments I had done on my whole degree course. It required a lot of critical thinking, discussion and difficult concepts to understand and examine. Thankfully, all of the brain ache paid off.

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