A5083056152- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Indigenous and Place-Based Education
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Education Systems and Policy
- Education and Technology Integration
- Outdoor and Experiential Education
- Theatre and Performance Studies
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Reflective Practices in Education
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
- Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Adult and Continuing Education Topics
- Child Therapy and Development
Edith Cowan University
2018-2025
East Central University
2023
Victoria School of Management
2014-2019
Victoria University
2015-2018
Monash University
2006-2016
Education University of Hong Kong
2012-2014
RMIT University
2005-2012
MIT University
2012
Peninsula College
2001-2011
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
2006-2010
Abstract This paper is based on data generated from a qualitative study of gender and sexuality in kindergarten classroom. Postdevelopmental perspectives sex, gender, are used to show how young children constructing heterosexual discourses the early childhood Drawing feminist poststructuralism queer theory, theoretical tools examine children's play outside development. Taking postdevelopmental stance towards enables creation proactive, rather than reactive, strategies for responding identity...
In this neoliberal era of productivity agendas and hyper-individualism, we think it timely to be offering a themed issue that spotlights children’s relations the more-than-human world. Not only are delighted by fact with world deliver no measurable economic outcomes, hold out additional hope paying these more attention, can do our bit defuse human-centric conceits rampant individualism. As collection, articles take on decidedly modern western axiom individual autonomy
In this article, we explore some alternate ways of approaching childhood and learning by taking three short forays into what Donna Haraway calls a 'post-human landscape'. This exploration takes us beyond the horizons orthodox educational approaches, in which individual child is typically seen to be developing within his/her (exclusively human) sociocultural context. The post-human landscape relocates world that much bigger than (humans) about more our (human) concerns. It allows reconsider...
This article considers the role of early childhood education within these uncertain times human induced climate change. It draws from feminism and environmental humanities to experiment with different ways becoming-with world. By bringing together Donna Haraway's figure Modest Witness Deborah Bird Rose's notion witnessing, rethinks what it means 'observe' in terms ethical response-ability matters concern. Data a multisensory multispecies ethnography are used illuminate observational...
The climate crisis has detrimental impacts on the mental health and wellbeing of children young people. Psychological effects include feelings fear, overwhelm, worry, distress, hopelessness anger; PTSD; depression; anxiety; phobias; panic disorder; sleep disturbances; attachment disorders; learning difficulties; substance abuse; shock trauma symptoms; adjustment problems; behavioural and, suicidal thinking. First Nations' people are particularly at risk due to loss place, identity, culture,...
Abstract In these regenerative times prompted by the Anthropocene, Aboriginal voices are situated to draw on ancient wisdom for local learning and share information across globe as ecological imperative planetary wellbeing. this paper, postqualitative research foregrounds sentient nature of life ancestral power brings vitality co-becoming our places into active engagement. It enables coloniality surface reveals how it sits in lives, plain sight but unnoticed because its so-called common...
THIS PAPER IS BASED ON a small-scale qualitative study framed by poststructuralist and queer perspectives that explored how young children talk about gender sexuality while engaging with activities commonly found in early years settings. Findings show are eager to do have considerable amount of sexual knowledge. Questions raised regarding the role years' teacher responsibility field has for opening up spaces curriculum children's knowledge be heard, valued considered.
AbstractThis paper sets out to queer education's normative human-centric assumptions and de-centre the straight narrow vision of child as only ever becoming an autonomous individual learner. It re-focuses upon more-than-human learning that takes place when we pay attention queerer aspects children's, well our own, entangled becomings in common worlds which live. In this case, are those children dogs. Drawing Donna Haraway's notion 'queer worlding' Karen Barad's assertion 'nature's...
This article engages with discard studies scholarship to interrogate findings from a study that set out deliberately follow wastepaper in an early childhood setting. The study, which used participatory methods positioning teachers and children as research partners, began purposeful noticing attunement paper's movements materiality. attentiveness defamiliarized paper the ways it is known experienced. It led questions about wider systems entangled. In this article, thinking provokes us...
POSTDEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES IN early childhood education and care increasingly reference alternative ways of understanding learning, growth development in learning. Drawing on these ideas, this paper examines research findings which focused teachers' understandings multiage grouping. The suggested that teachers used predominantly developmental approaches to describing their experiences grouping, proposed the use postdevelopmental perspectives grouping has potential realise new learning as...
This article engages with air from a posthuman performative perspective to prompt new thinking about postcolonial Hong Kong. Drawing small experiential study of Kong air, this shows how three becoming-with research practices; sensing tracing childhood memories, and cominglings were enacted engage data differently. Becoming-with illuminates connections are made through inter- intra-actions between human, nonhuman, the material discursive. argues that practices productive necessary rethink...
Expanding the important body of work that addresses child development’s limitations and responding to ecological crisis threatens future life on Earth, this article proposes a living feminist postdevelopmental lexicon. The lexicon introduces 26 concepts together challenge theory/practice divide, disrupt Cartesian modes subjectivity, reorient taken-for-granted ideas as problematic in early education, open up education inquiries respond political ethical questions our milieu, generate...
AbstractSince the moral panic discourse is shutting down discussions about how children are making meaning of gender and sexuality, this paper argues that a new logic needed for understanding childhood sexuality. A postdevelopmental created by working with Deleuze Guattari's [Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism Schizoprhenia. Translated Robert Hurley, Mark Seem Helen R. Lane. London: Athlone Thousand Plateaus: Schizophrenia. Brian Massumi. Continuum. (Orig. pub. 1980)] concepts 'assemblage', 'desire',...