Thursday October 2nd, 2014

Australasian Regional symposium

Dr Gwen GilmoreLecturer in literacy and student retention

Victoria University, Melbourne

Thursday October 2nd, 2014

Inclusion and ProfessionalismResearch contexts: Systems & organisational change

School inclusion (NZ & UK), professionalism (NZ & UK) and pre-service teacher education (Australia – Vietnam - ?)

Student voice

Relational pedagogies

Communities of Practice

Boundary crossing

Mediation

REGIONAL SYMPOSIUM

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Anamika Devi Concept formation in early childhood settings: A dialectical view of imagination and cognition of preschool children in diverse cultural contexts

The proposed study aims to expand the knowledge of different cultural values (Bangladeshi culture) in relation to children’s (3 children and age from 3 to 5 years) concept formation through analysing everyday institutional (home and preschool settings) practices. It will explore how parents and teachers engage young children in imaginary play and create the conditions for concept formation.

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Feiyan Chen Young children’s emotional development in everyday family life

The development of children’s emotions is collectively constructed rather than an individual practice as identified in the literature.

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Judith Gomes A Study of Play, culture and science: Science Concept formation in early years

Home and preschool have significant contribution in developing a scientific play motive for science concept formation in early years.

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Megan Adams International transitions: A cultural historical perspective of young expatriate children and families entering international schools of Malaysia

A new perspective on transitions as emotionally charged events is theorised, contributing to understandings of the concept of transition as an affective relation between an international shift and micro transitions during the process of children and families settling into the new local context.

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Mohamad Khairul Haji Matusin

IMPLEMENTING EDUCATIONAL CHANGE: ASSESSMENT IN PROJECT-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN BRUNEI DARUSSALAM’S SECONDARY SCHOOLS

implications of Dynamic Assessment (DA) in a Project-based Learning (PBL) environment

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Nicole Parker

Quality in early childhood education

understanding the ways in which quality is conceptualised and measured

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Omar Sulaymani

A cultural historical activity study of Saudi children’s learning using digital devices

This study will examine dialectical relations between young children's everyday life experiences of using digital devices and the educational settings in Saudi Arabia with respect to the cultural development of classroom practices via different concepts including motivations, social situation of development, demands, and perezhevanie in order to close the digital divide between children's real life and educational setting in Saudi Arabia.

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Shuhuan Pang Mind the Gap: Teachers’ Perspectives on Adjusting the Reform and Innovation in Play-based Early Childhood Education Curriculum and Pedagogy

The study seeks to use cultural-historical theory to inform an exploration of teachers’ perspectives examining their belief-practice gap as well as policy-practice gap in the Chinese sociocultural ECE (early childhood education) context. The study concentrates on adjustments of reform and innovation in play-based curriculum and pedagogy from teachers’ perspectives bridging these gaps in order to maximize children’s diverse development.

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Shukla Sikder Infant-toddler development of scientific concepts as part of everyday family practices

Small Science

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Sue March A study of fairy tales as a source of child development in early childhood education

I am interested in the role of fairy tales and imagination in generating the conditions for children’s development in multi-age group settings and family homes from a cultural-historical perspective.

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Yijun Hao Young children’s concept formation: A cultural-historical study of children’s imaginary play at home

This study tries to explore the value of play within the consideration of young children’s development of concept. It is important to investigate the nature of play when it is in relation to the learning of concepts rather than separately define and analyze the meaning of play and learning.

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Rebecca Lewis Group time with 3 - 5 year olds: How teachers create the conditions for 'the collective ZPD

There has been minimal research regarding the ZPD in relation to a group context. Group time is an important cultural practise in many Australian kindergartens. This study aims to examine the active role of the teacher and their explicit pedagogical practise in intentionally creating the conditions for the greater potential of the collective group when collaborating and problem solving with more capable others.

Dr Susan Davis, CQUniversity s.davis@cqu.edu.au

T.R.E.E.Mappa Project

• Formative CHAT informed interventions within various school contexts using drama, the arts and digital mediation for engaged and connected learning

• Most recent ones with a focus on environmental and sustainability issues

• Also Interested in Vygotsky’s work on creativity • Various research partners – CQU, UWS, Newcastle, Macquarie,

Sydney Theatre Company, UNESCO MaB program.

Mathematics education researchInterest: Mapping student and teacher knowledge from a growth perspective using the metaphor of fluency rather than amount.

megan.anakin@otago.ac.nz

Stuart Hawken, PhD candidate, Deakin UniversitySupervisors - Associate Prof Damian Blake, Dr Shaun Rawolle, Dr Trace Ollis

Topic Title:APPLIED LEARNING AS ALTERNATIVE CURRICULUM:

INVESTIGATING A SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS BASED PROGRAM.

“I can see something special happening, something very different to what the students might experience in a mainstream school. The learning process is different and so are the

outcomes. I want to explain the what, how and why of this phenomenon.”

Kim Anh Dang (PhD, Melb.)Vietnam National University, Hanoi

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Dang & Marginson (2013). Global learning through the lens of Vygotskian sociocultural theory. Critical Studies in Education, 54(2), 143-159.

Dang (2013). Identity in activity: Examining teacher professional identity formation in the paired-placement of student teachers. Teaching and Teacher Education, 30 (2013), 47-59.

• Recently graduated from Melbourne Graduate School of Education, under the supervision of Dr. Russell Cross and Dr. Alan Williams

• Recent publications centre on appropriating Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory to research on teacher collaborative learning and educational research in contemporary globalized contexts.

Other selected publications on sociocultural activity research:

Dang, T. K. A, Nguyen, T. M. H., & Le, T. T. T. (2014). Chapter 4: Impacts of globalization on EFL teacher education through English as a medium of instruction: An example from Vietnam. In Hamid, O., Nguyen, H., Baldauf Jr, R. Language Planning for Medium of Instruction in Asia. Routledge.Dang, T. K. A, Nguyen, T. M. H., & Le, T. T. T. (2013). Impacts of globalization on EFL teacher education through English as a medium of instruction: An example from Vietnam. Current Issues in Language Planning, 14(1), 60-82. Dang, T. K. A. (2012). Impact of globalization on ELT pre-service teacher education in a Vietnamese context: A sociocultural perspective. In Gitsaki, C. &Baldauf, R. (Eds.). Future Directions in Applied Linguistics: Local and Global Perspectives, (pp. 140-157). Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.