Australian Journal of Early Childhood articles from March 2005

Australian Journal of Early Childhood archives from March 2005

The future of AJEC.(Editorial)(Australian Journal of Early Childhood)
March 1, 2005... (The AJEC Committee invites readers' thoughts on the matters raised in this editorial, as well as elsewhere within the journal. Letters to the editor, enquiries, comments, submissions and contributions can be sent to...

An ethical journey: rights, relationships and reflexivity.(Theorising In Progress)
March 1, 2005... The use of early childhood settings as sites for research means that the ethical practices of those who conduct research become available for scrutiny (Aubrey, David, Godfrey & Thompson, 2000). However, everyone involved in these settings has a...

Gender, the labour market, the workplace and policy in children's services: parent, staff and student attitudes (1).
March 1, 2005... Recently, considerable public attention has been devoted to the topic of the gender composition of the teacher education workforce in Australia. This attention is focused on the reasons for, and consequences of, the relatively few males in the...

Governance of children's everyday spaces.
March 1, 2005... Introduction Enid Blyton's Famous Five, Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter--these popular stories have the common thread, whereby children are positioned outside the immediate authority of their parents....

Teacher understandings of and commitment to gender equity in the early childhood setting.
March 1, 2005... Introduction For some time, gender has been a focus of early childhood research, and a concern for those involved in early childhood education. Despite the rhetoric about the impact of equity programs on early childhood education, many...

Mentoring preservice teachers in the preschool setting: perceptions of the role.
March 1, 2005... Introduction Professional experience, also called 'practicum' and 'field experience', denotes periods of time spent in school and classroom settings where the preservice teachers engage in a developmental process of observing and...

Half-days or full days of kindergarten? How and why parents decide.
March 1, 2005... Background to the study Tasmanian children attend kindergarten when they are four to five years of age, with each kindergarten being located at, or attached to, a local primary or district high school. The school principal is responsible...

Teacher-parent partnerships: sharing understandings and making changes.
March 1, 2005... Teacher-parent partnerships: A central principle A central commitment to partnerships between teachers and parents exists within early childhood education philosophy. Bronfenbrenner's (1996) ecological model describes the multidirectional...

Children's and family services working together.
March 1, 2005... Introduction In recent times in the human services we have heard repeated calls from both community and government sectors for a much closer integration of different services and service types. This has often been expressed as a desire for...

'Early childhood environmental education: Making it mainstream'.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... 'EARLY CHILDHOOD ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: Making it Mainstream Julie Davis and Sue Elliott (2003) Early Childhood Australia, ACT. In Early childhood environmental education, Davis and Elliott commence with the proposition that 'early...