Australian Journal of Early Childhood articles from March 2008

Australian Journal of Early Childhood archives from March 2008

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 1, 2008... EARLY CHILDHOOD AUSTRALIA has as its mission the aim to advocate and ensure quality, social justice and equity in all issues relating to the education and care of children from birth to eight years. One of the strategies used to work towards...

Meeting the goals of Te Whariki through music in the early childhood curriculum.
March 1, 2008... Introduction FROM THE VERY FIRST gathering of human beings in groups, life has been celebrated, nurtured and revived through artistic expression. Throughout all ages dance, music, art, drama and a range of integrated art forms have...

Making the multicultural learning environment flourish: the importance of the child-teacher relationship in educating young children about diversity.
March 1, 2008... The child-teacher relationship IT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOUNG children to experience ambiguity when trying to conceptualise the idea of ethnic and cultural diversity. It is not uncommon that children's images of ethnicity do not correspond to...

Presence as a dimension of early childhood professional practice.
March 1, 2008... PRESENCE HAS RECEIVED considerable attention in the nursing literature with respect to the phenomenon of caring (Fredriksson, 1999; Nelms, 1996) and, more recently, in relation to teaching (for example, Rodgers & Raider-Roth, 2006). However,...

Early childhood teachers coping with educational change.
March 1, 2008... Introduction IN OUR WORLD CHANGE is inevitable. As shifting economic, political, societal and technological forces interplay, they directly and indirectly influence every facet of our lives. Regardless of where we live, our occupation or...

Encouraging the reflection process in undergraduate teachers using guided reflection.
March 1, 2008... Introduction MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about the benefits of reflection as a practice for teachers (Artzt & Armour Thomas, 2002; Margolis, 2002; Mayes, 2001 a, 2001b; Moore, 2002; Rock & Levin, 2002; Swain, 1998). However, earlier debates...

Computer use by preschool children: rethinking practice as digital natives come to preschool.
March 1, 2008... THE WORLD OF MOST WESTERN children has undergone significant changes in the past few decades, brought about significantly by the uptake of computers. Yet early childhood philosophy has been one where particular notions have remained relatively...

Bullying affects us too: parental responses to bullying at kindergarten.
March 1, 2008... ALTHOUGH IT IS WIDELY acknowledged that bullying is common among older children, preschool children have often been considered too young to have the capacity to form deliberate intentions to harm others, which characterises bullying. Instead,...

Concerts for young children.
March 1, 2008... THE IMAGE OF A SYMPHONY concert is that of a formal occasion: well-dressed patrons in well-appointed venues listening attentively to programs of classical music, applauding when etiquette demands and enjoying a drink with friends at...

Indigenous child care--leading the way.
March 1, 2008... We are not doing well EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES in Australia are fragmented and operate from a range of jurisdictions (Press & Hayes, 2001). Some children attend out-of-home services such as child care. These children tend to be children of...