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Roe, Elizabeth; Jensen, Lynn; Finlay-Jones, Amy; White, Scott W.; Wong, Kingsley; Leonard, Helen; Straker, Leon; Downs, Jenny – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
Aim: To investigate developmental trajectories in early childhood and predictors of class assignment. Methods: Data were available for Gen2 infants at 12 (n = 2275), 24 (n = 1845) and 36 (n = 2110) months of age in the Raine Study. Latent growth class analysis was used to identify developmental trajectories based on the Ages and Stages…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Stages, Risk, Risk Assessment
Elwick, Sheena; Wong, Sandie; Harrison, Linda; Williams, Kate E.; McFarland, Laura; Dealtry, Lysa; Janus, Magdalena – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
This article discusses infant-toddler educators' perspectives of using the Observe, Reflect, Improve Children's Learning tool (ORICL) in practice. ORICL is a new tool informed by implementation science and co-designed with Australian early childhood education and care policy-makers, practitioners, and service providers. It aims to support…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Infants
O'Hara-Gregan, Justine – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
Internationally, there are growing concerns about the work-related well-being of early childhood teachers. There is currently limited guidance around specific practices teachers can use to support their well-being when challenges arise while teaching. Mindful self-compassion practice, which has elements of mindfulness, common humanity, and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Well Being, Metacognition, Altruism
Quinones, Gloria; Berger, Emily; Barnes, Melissa – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
Early childhood (EC) professionals are valuable educators and teachers, and their work involves being caregivers, yet the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the lack of 'caring about' and 'for' EC professionals. With the increasing focus on educator wellbeing, this paper explores how eight EC professionals understand the role of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Well Being, Caregivers
Richardson, Brooke Maureen; Vickerson, Rachel; Bader, Nadia – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
It has been well-established that highly gendered, early childhood education workforces face major temporal, material, physical and psychological barriers to being well. This issue is particularly pressing in this political moment: a national childcare policy program is being rolled out for the first time in Canadian history. It is in this context…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Well Being
McGuffog, Romany; Fitzgeraldson, Elloyse; Lyford, Bronte; Triandafilidis, Zoi; Fitzpatrick, Sally; Hazel, Gavin – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2022
This mixed-methods study explored (1) family day care (FDC) educators' confidence and capability to support children's mental health, and (2) assessed their own mental health and wellbeing. Descriptive analysis of the survey (n = 144) highlighted that most participants were in the normal range for mental health and wellbeing; however, identifying…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Child Care, Mental Health, Well Being
Cumming, Tamara; Wong, Sandie; Logan, Helen – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2021
A child's right to high quality education not only relies on a competent and skilled workforce, but one in which educators are well. Supporting a well workforce requires governments, organisations and educators to attend to work environment quality. This attention needs be based on sound, relevant evidence. In this paper we contribute evidence of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Well Being, Work Environment, Work Attitudes
Quinones, Gloria; Barnes, Melissa; Berger, Emily – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2021
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) educators' well-being and emotional demands during COVID require careful attention. This article explores the emotional demands experienced by ECEC educators in Australia during ongoing periods of lockdown. A survey was designed to gather quantitative and qualitative data and participants were asked to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Social Support Groups, Activism, Professional Recognition
Logan, Helen; McFarland, Laura; Cumming, and Tamara; Wong, Sandie – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2021
The goal of this qualitative study was to understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on early childhood educators' well-being in Australia and to identify strategies for supporting educator well-being throughout this crisis. Data were gathered using a multi-site case study with five Senior Managers or CEOs of early childhood education and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Child Caregivers, Well Being, COVID-19
Jones, Catherine; Johnstone, Melissa; Hadley, Fay; Waniganayake, Manjula – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2020
Extant literature on Early Childhood educator workplace well-being focuses on the disease model of well-being, with studies mainly addressing stress and burnout. There is a paucity of research conceptualising healthy workplace well-being for educators and an absence of theorising to frame, understand and enhance Early Childhood educator workplace…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Well Being, Work Environment, Self Determination
Roberts, Pauline; Barblett, Lennie; Robinson, Ken – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
National Assessment Program for Numeracy and Literacy (NAPLAN) is the national assessment programme for literacy and numeracy in Australia administered to children in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 each year. The testing process was introduced in 2008 and is described by the developers as low stakes, however, research has highlighted that this is not the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, National Competency Tests, Literacy
Jones, Catherine; Hadley, Fay; Waniganayake, Manjula; Johnstone, Melissa – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
Historically, research on educator wellbeing has focused on ill health including stress, burnout and emotional exhaustion. There is a dearth of research examining healthy workplace wellbeing among early childhood educators, which makes developing strategies to support their wellbeing difficult. Moreover, there is a lack of clarity about the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teaching Conditions, Well Being, Self Determination
Davis, Elise; Corr, Lara; Ummer-Christian, Rahila; Gilson, Kim-Michelle; Waters, Elizabeth; Mihalopoulos, Cathrine; Marshall, Bernie; Cook, Kay; Herman, Helen; Mackinnon, Andrew; Harrsion, Linda; Sims, Margaret – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2014
This paper presents baseline data from Thrive, a capacity-building program for family day care educators. Educators completed a self-report survey assessing knowledge and confidence in promoting children's social and emotional wellbeing. An in-home observation was used to assess care quality. Twenty-four educators responded to the survey (40 per…
Descriptors: Child Care, Caregiver Attitudes, Well Being, Emotional Problems
Harrison, Cathie – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2012
This paper provides an overview of one aspect of a research project to investigate the contribution of the television program "Play School" to the health and wellbeing of young Australian children. The research question for this aspect of the study was: How do young children respond to the various elements and segments of "Play…
Descriptors: Well Being, Television, Interaction, Foreign Countries
Bohanna, India; Davis, Elise; Corr, Lara; Priest, Naomi; Tan, Huong – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2012
Family Day Care (FDC) is a distinctive form of child care chosen by many Australian families. However, there appears to be little empirical research on FDC conducted in Australia. The aim of this study was to systematically review the recent published literature on FDC research in Australia, assess its quality, and identify pertinent topics for…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Well Being, Child Care, Foreign Countries
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