Dr Eva Mikuska
Summary
I started my carrier as a geography teacher. At the beginning of the Yugoslav war, I came to live in the UK in 1992. After working in various early years settings, in 2005 I joined the UK FE and HE sector as a lecturer and researcher. Currently, am teaching on various programmes and modules, with the main focus on methodological approaches to research, professional educational practices, and other ECEC related topics. I am also a PhD and EdD supervisor.
Research interests
My research interest focuses on the quality education and care for young children, gender discourses in ECEC field, ethnicised minority rights for education, social inequality, and identity questions.
I am on the editoral borad for the following journals: International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Journal of Early Childhood Society and Norlad Educare Research Journal.
Research outputs
2024
String figuring young children’s perspectives of quality in English Early Childhood Education and Care
Fairchild, N., Mikuska, E.
19 Feb 2024, In: British Educational Research Journal
2023
Conversation with my classmates: displacement, war, and survival
Mikuska, E.
10 Oct 2023, In: Genealogy. 7, 4, 11p., 75
Language, self-esteem, and academic achievement: mature students’ emotionally incited stories
Kurowski, A., Mikuska, E.
27 Sep 2023, In: Educational Role of Language Journal. 1, 9, p. 21-32, 11p.
Quality Early Childhood Education and Care practices: the importance of skills, knowledge, and the Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner competencies
Barton, S., Fairchild, N., Mikuska, E., Sabine, A. J. W.
7 Sep 2023, In: International Journal of Early Years Education, 15p.
Thinking through the lens of dialogical self, I positions and intersectionality for exploring how Hungarian kindergarten pedagogues experienced the new Curriculum Framework
Mikuska, E., Raffai, J., Vukov Raffai, E.
17 Jun 2023, In: Global Studies of Childhood
Policy and governmentality of Early Childhood Education and Care in England
Mikuska, E.
10 Apr 2023, In: Pedagoška stvarnost. 68, 2, p. 123-128, 6p.
Research into trainees
Barton, S., Fairchild, N., Mikuska, E., Sabine, A. J. W.
20 Jan 2023, In: Early Years Educator, 33p.