Australian Journal of Early Childhood articles from December 2005

Australian Journal of Early Childhood archives from December 2005

Editorial.(early childhood education)(Editorial)
December 1, 2005... In AJEC earlier this year, Marilyn Fleer (Fleer, 2005) challenged early childhood professionals to move beyond a developmental approach to their work and consider alternative frameworks. The developmental framework encourages us to think about...

Constraints and facilitators for physical activity in family day care.
December 1, 2005... Introduction Approximately 23 per cent of Australian children are placed in formal child care (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1999). Sixty per cent of those children attend care for between five and 19 hours per week (Australian Bureau...

Social inclusion--the next step: user-friendly strategies to promote social interaction and peer acceptance of children with disabilities.
December 1, 2005... Introduction From our own experience as teachers in community early childhood settings (ECSs) we observed that children with developmental disabilities/delays were often relatively socially isolated from their peers and interacted far more...

Mathematics teaching and learning in the early years in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
December 1, 2005... Introduction Summarising the developments that have taken place in education can assist in understanding the wider picture of mathematics education within Aotearoa/New Zealand and identify possible sites of tension as well as cohesion. One...

The reasoning behind the scene: why do early childhood educators use computers in their classrooms?
December 1, 2005... Introduction Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been an established part of the educational scene for the past 15 years (Anderson, 1999). In tertiary institutions, secondary and primary schools, computers (and their...

A comparative study of early childhood fear and caregivers' responses to fear in Australia and Canada.
December 1, 2005... Introduction Emotions play an integral role in our lives, as it is through emotional displays that we gain information about how we and other people feel and respond to any situation. A smile universally conveys warmth, happiness,...

A place for sound: raising children's awareness of their sonic environment.
December 1, 2005... Introduction The premise for the study was that a young child's world is multi-sensory and learning is experiential. A feeling of 'being in a place' is informed by experiencing with all the senses, with the term multi-sensory meaning not...

Researching with/for whom? Stepping in and out of practitioner research.
December 1, 2005... To undertake practitioner research is to engage in systematic and critical inquiry (Macpherson, Brooker, Aspland & Cuskelly, 2004; McTaggart, 1989). It also involves meaning-making and a responsibility to make that meaning known (Fasoli & Ford,...