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Early Childhood Educators' Conceptions of Infants' Capabilities: The Nexus between Beliefs and Practice
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Salamon, Andi; Harrison, Linda – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2015
The conceptions early childhood educators (ECEs) hold about infants can guide their pedagogical practices in ways that can enable and constrain infants' experiences. Literature regarding infants' development and the role of adults in infant learning theoretically positions infants as both being capable of independent learning, and needing adult…
Descriptors: Infants, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Teachers
Transitions to School: Reframing Professional Relationships
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Boyle, Tess; Petriwskyj, Anne – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2014
Systemic splits between pre-compulsory and compulsory early years education impact on transitions to school through discontinuities in children's experience. This paper presents data from a critical participatory action research project about transitions between pre-compulsory and compulsory early education schooling in Australia. The project aim…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Transitional Programs, Compulsory Education
"Parents Don't Want Their Children to Speak Their Home Language": How Do Educators Negotiate Partnerships with Chinese Parents Regarding Their Children's Use of Home Language and English in Early Childhood Settings?
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Hu, Jiangbo; Torr, Jane; Whiteman, Peter – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2014
This study investigated five Australian early childhood educators' negotiation of the complex terrain of working in partnership with Chinese parents regarding their children's language usage in early childhood settings. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken to explore educators' views on children's language usage in early childhood settings,…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Environment, Chinese, English (Second Language)
Expectations of Mentoring in a Time of Change: Views of New and Professionally Isolated Early Childhood Teachers in Victoria, Australia
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Nolan, Andrea; Morrissey, Anne-Marie; Dumenden, Iris – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2013
This paper presents preliminary data from a mentoring program, initiated in response to widespread Government reform policy that targeted early childhood teachers who were new or professionally isolated. It was implemented over a period of two years (2011-2012) in the state of Victoria, Australia. The paper focuses on the voices of these future…
Descriptors: Mentors, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Robust Hope, Democracy and Early Childhood Education
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Arthur, Leonie; Sawyer, Wayne – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2009
This paper discusses a recent Australian study of boys' education using case studies to determine successful practices. It focuses on an early childhood site where access to "discourses of power" for students and parents and a valuing of students' "action knowledge" created a particular democratic culture achieving improved…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Democracy, Focus Groups, Children
Transition to School Practices: Comparisons from Iceland and Australia
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Einarsdottir, Johanna; Perry, Bob; Dockett, Sue – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2008
This paper is the result of collaboration among early childhood education researchers from different cultures on opposite sides of the globe. The project sought to identify what practitioners in both preschool and primary school settings in Iceland and Australia regarded as successful transition to school practices. Independently developed surveys…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Cross Cultural Studies
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