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Qualified Early Years Educator  and Pædagog 

 Jen (Jennifer) Fagan Simonsen is a true third-culture child. Irish and born in Kiel, Germany, Jen got her primary, secondary and bachelor education in the Netherlands, to study and work in Madrid, Spain before moving to Denmark and marrying a Dane. Jen speaks 3 languages fluently and is passionate about pedagogy, education and especially language acquisition. After completing her studies, Jen continued with her own love for learning, keeping up to date with world-wide research in early childhood development with an impressive list of workshops and courses, including growth mindset and play based learning. In 2019 and 2020, she had the pleasure to present during webinars, and facilitate a workshop in London, for Fieldwork Education in the area of education as well as the International Early Years Curriculum. Jen worked previously as a teacher at International Schools, as a kindergarten pedagog in Denmark and in a forest kindergarten in Humlebæk. Today, Jen works freelance as a translator for Legeakademiet and as a curriculum writer for Fieldwork Education.
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Barefoot Mor 

Living life busy, creative and close to nature and... barefoot parenting. You can get a good sense of her favourite things and our little countryside garden on Jen's Instagram account. 
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ARTbyFAGAN

 Jen has an illustrating company ARTbyFAGAN for her passion for drawing and educational illustrating. Through ARTbyFAGAN, Jen has worked in collaboration with International Schools on their Mascots featuring the IPC Personal Development Goals by Fieldwork Education.
Jen self-published a picture book in collaboration with her eldest daughter and her very first elephant stuffed animal.  
She has made English and Danish Alphabet Posters and has worked on various educational and fun activity books. Jen is currently working on an Outdoor Nature Journal for Early Years and Primary School Children to bring on trips with them to journal their discoveries and learn more about the world around them. Also in the making are some new themed alphabet posters and... of course some nature themed number and alphabet posters were bound to follow!
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