Engaging and Assessing Learners (ECP) 4 (EDUC91075) // Further information

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    Arndt, S. (2018). Early childhood teacher cultural Otherness and belonging. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 19(4), 392-403. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1463949118783382 

     Biesta, G. (2016). Improving education through research? From effectiveness, causality and technology to purpose, complexity and culture. Policy Futures in Education, 14, 194-210. doi:10.1177/1478210315613900 

    Mitchell, L. (2010). Constructions of childhood in early childhood education policy debate in New Zealand. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 11(4), 328-341 

     Moss, P., & Dahlberg, G. (2008). Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care – Languages of Evaluation. New Zealand Journal of Teachers’ Work, 5(1), 3-12.  

    Moss, P. (2010). We cannot continue as we are: the educator in an education for survival. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 11(1), 8-19.  

    Myers, C. Y. (2016). Becoming “babies” in real time: Temporal emergence in the classroom mangle. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 17(4), 421-430. doi:DOI: 10.1177/1463949116677926 

     Salazar Perez, M., & Saavedra, C. M. (2018). Black and Chicana feminisms: Journeys toward spirituality and reconnection. In M. Bloch, B. B. Swadener, & G. S. Cannella (Eds.), Reconceptualizing early childhood education and care - A reader: Critical questions, new imaginaries & social activism (pp. 129-138). New York, NY:  

    Peter Lang. Smith, K., Tesar, M., & Myers, C. Y. (2016). Edu-capitalism and the governing of early childhood education and care in Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Global Studies of Childhood, 6(1), 123-135  

    Srinivasan, P. (2014). Early Childhood in Postcolonial Australia: Children’s Contested Identities. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan.

     Taylor, A. (2013). Reconfiguring the natures of childhood. Oxon, UK: Routledge.

    Tesar, M., & Koro-Ljungberg, M. (2015). Cute, creepy and sublime unnamed childhood monstrosities. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 1-11. doi:10.1080/01596306.2015.1075708

    Townsend-Cross, M. (2004). Indigenous Australian perspectives in early childhood education. Australia Journal of Early Childhood, 29(4), 1-6.

     Urban, M. (2015). From ‘closing the gap’ to an ethics of affirmation. Reconceptualising the role of early childhood services in times of uncertainty. European Journal of Education, 50(3), 293-306

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    CourseMaster of Teaching (Early Childhood and Primary)
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Last updated: 4 March 2025