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The School of Education at Flinders University offers a comprehensive range of teaching programs from first year through to the Honours, Masters and Doctoral levels. These include teacher education programs as well as programs where education is the focus of study (for example, as part of the BA). The strong research orientation within the School contributes to a vibrant Honours Program as well as attracting many local, interstate and international students to its several Masters and two doctoral programs (PhD and EdD).
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To Teach or Not to Teach in the Early Years: What Does this Mean in Early Childhood Education
(IntechOpen, 2018-11-05)Pedagogy in the early years has often been constructed as a choice between child-centered, play-based, or teacher directed learning. Child-centered learning is often characterized as “following the child’s interests.” This ... -
Involvement in Bullying During High School: A Survival Analysis Approach
(Springer Publishing Company, 2018-06-01)Knowledge about the risks of bullying involvement during any year of high school is an important element of interventions for changing the likelihood of being bullied. Three cohorts of Australian students (n = 1,382) were ... -
Mainland Chinese students’ mental health: baseline data and cautionary notes when exporting/importing psychological scales
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2018-05-29)There is a growing interest in mainland China about schools’ roles in supporting students to develop positive mental health. However, relatively little data have been collected about mainland Chinese students’ mental health. ... -
Giving institutional voice to work-integrated learning in academic workloads
(International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2018)Little is known about how university institutions are coping with increased placement demands in professional disciplines, and what this means for the quality and integrity of the Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) experiences ... -
Mainland Chinese students’ self-appraisals of their psychological dispositions at school
(Springer, 2017-10-17)This paper reports mainland Chinese students’ self-appraisals about their psychological dispositions whilst at school. Increasing interest has turned to factors such as resilience, wellbeing, flourishing, happiness and ... -
Predictors of Mainland Chinese students’ well‐being
(Wiley, 2018-04-20)There has been substantial research in the USA, Europe and Australia about factors influencing students’ wellbeing. However, such research has been relatively rare in mainland China. We administered four predictor scales ... -
Girls’ diminishing wellbeing across the adolescent years
(Routledge, 2018)The chapters in this book investigate promoting wellbeing and positive mental health from a range of perspectives. One such perspective is the influence of gender on positive mental health, and the potential for gender ... -
Blending Formative and Summative Assessment in a Capstone Subject: ‘It’s not your tools, it’s how you use them
(University of Wollongong, 2017-11-30)Discussions about the relationships between formative and summative assessment have come full circle after decades of debate. For some time formative assessment with its emphasis on feedback to students was promoted as ... -
Saying Goodbye: An Investigation into Parent–Infant Separation Behaviours on Arrival in Childcare
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2011-07-26)The goal of this small-scale study was to investigate how parental separation behaviours affect the transitional behaviour of infants aged 6–18 months. Thirty parent–infant pairs were observed during the separation process ... -
Retaining Early Childcare Educators.
(Wiley, 2012-04-22)Long day childcare (LDC) services provide education and care for children under 5 years of age in Australia. Those who work in these services are poorly paid and their efforts are undervalued. To support the emotional, ... -
Learner engagement under the ‘regulatory gaze’: possibilities for re-positioning early childhood pre-service teachers as autonomous professionals
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-02-06)In a climate of increasing regulation within the early childhood education and care services (ECECS), and the greater re-positioning of professionals within public sectors, this article seeks to extend the literature ... -
Childcare educators’ understandings of early communication and attachment
(Early Childhood Australia, 2016-12-04)Giving voice to the discipline-specific knowledge and pedagogical practices of childcare educators, this paper attempts to explore new ways of defining educators’ work with young children, given the post-structural turn ... -
Being in sync: Strategies to support centres’ retention of childcare teachers
(The University of Auckland, 2014)Australia’s National Quality Framework (NQF) is seeking to improve teacher qualifications and ratios to lift the quality of education that young children access (COAG, 2013). The retention of childcare teachers, however, ... -
Young Children’s Health and Wellbeing Across the Transition to School: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis
(Cambridge University Press, 2016-04-29)This paper reports on the systematic search and review of the literature relating to the health and wellbeing of young children across the transition to school. It identified 56 papers (including empirical studies, reviews, ... -
Exploring the use of emoji as a visual research method for eliciting young children’s voices in childhood research
(Early Child Development and Care, 2016-08-17)Recognition of the need to move from research on children to research with children has prompted significant theoretical and methodological debate as to how young children can be positioned as active participants in the ... -
Early childhood educators’ understanding of early communication: Application to their work with young children
(Sage Journals, 2016-02-08)Young children need rich learning experiences to maximize their potential. Early childhood educators (ECEs) working in childcare have knowledge of individual children as well as skills and professional knowledge that afford ... -
Agreement between activPAL and ActiGraph for assessing children ’ s sedentary time
(BioMed Central, 2012-02-19)Background Accelerometers have been used to determine the amount of time that children spend sedentary. However, as time spent sitting may be detrimental to health, research is needed to examine whether accelerometer ... -
Student Voice in Work Integrated Learning Scholarship: A Review of Teacher Education and Geographical Sciences
(International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), 2017)Work integrated learning is an umbrella term that refers to the opportunities provided to university students to integrate knowledge of theory and practice as part of their degree program. As the role of students in higher ... -
Where’s the Transformation? Unlocking the Potential of Technology-Enhanced Assessment
(International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), 2017)This study provides insight into technology-enhanced assessment (TEA) in diverse higher education contexts. The effectiveness of using technology for assessment in higher education is still equivocal, particularly in regard ... -
Australian children's perceptions of discretionary foods
(Elsevier, 2017-08-24)Energy-dense nutrient poor foods and drinks, often referred to as discretionary choices, can contribute a significant amount of energy, fat, sodium and sugar to the diet if consumed in large quantities. Currently many ...
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