Theses from 2024
The role of text type in the reading development of beginning readers with English as an additional language, Simmone P. Pogorzelski
Queering primary initial teacher education, David Rhodes, Matt Byrne, and Jason Boron
Young student’s views of NAPLAN: Impact on wellbeing through drawn responses, Pauline Roberts and Lennie Barblett
Developing an 'ePortfolio of evidence' towards employment and registration for early childhood teachers, Pauline Roberts, Leonie Menzel, Bev Adkin, and Lennie Barblett
Responding to children’s voices: The new frontier in education policy reform, Amelia Ruscoe
De+D61:D80signing bespoke visual mediation tools using 'viscourse' for intergenerational research visiblising pedagogies, Amelia Ruscoe and Penny Baker
A tale of the well-ness monster: Examining the mental wellness needs of pre-service teachers during the assistant teacher program, Carli Sanbrook
Human skills and sociocultural impacts of K-12 cybersecurity education, Leslie F. Sikos, Marnie McKee, Ahmed Ibrahim, and Nicola F. Johnson
Self-discovery, flow, and facilitating transformative threshold spaces as an act of self-care in higher education, Melissa Silk and Narelle Lemon
An ecological and transdisciplinary ethnographic study of Indonesian TESOL returnee lecturer identity, Yuniar Dwi Ansari Siregar
Verbal and nonverbal communicative approaches used by reading teachers to foster student reading for pleasure in secondary school, Claire Patricia Smith
Western Australian home economics teachers' perceptions of the function and relevance of home economics in the 21st century: An exploratory review, Sandra Faye Smith
Our right to play: How Afghan women navigate constraints, agency, and aspirations on and off the soccer field, Ramón Spaaij, Aish Ravi, Jonathan Magee, Ruth Jeanes, Dawn Penney, and Justen O’Connor
Considering the relevance of Jiddu Krishnamurti to contemporary Indian education: In conversation with the thought of Gert Biesta, Aarthi Srinivasan and Leon Benade
Māori (flexible) learning spaces, old and new, Georgina Tuari Stewart, Leon Benade, Valance Smith, Alastair Wells, and Amanda Yates
School leadership during the COVID-19 crisis: A scoping review of empirical research, Michelle Striepe and Antonios Kafa
Teachers’ approaches to spelling instruction for years 3 to 6 in Western Australian schools, Kylie Pham Truong
The contributions of executive functioning to handwritten and keyboarded compositions in year 2 children, Debora S. Valcan, Anabela Malpique, Deborah Pino-Pasternak, Mustafa Asil, and Timothy Teo
The anatomy of body shaming in sports coaching, Valeria Varea, Robert S. Primus, Natalie Barker-Ruchti, and Mikael Quennerstedt
Health education in Swedish schools–What’s on offer?, V. Varea, A. Caldeborg, D. Barker, and M. Quennerstedt
Determining factors in first-year university student uptake of English language support programs at one Australian university, Tracy Luize Geste Ware
Assembling new public management: Actors, networks and projects, Andrew W. Wilkins, Jordi Collet-Sabé, Tomás Esper, Brad Gobby, and Emiliano Grimaldi
Students' preferences for setting and/or mixed-ability grouping in secondary school physical education in England, Shaun D. Wilkinson and Dawn Penney
The hows and whys of gendered grouping practices in primary physical education in England, Shaun D. Wilkinson, Annette Stride, and Dawn Penney
Walking-with Derbarl Yerrigan/Swan River: Experimentations with methodological and pedagogical practices in early childhood education, Vanessa Wintoneak
Education for profit in the era of Xi: Biopower, resistance and China’s double reduction policy, Wei Zhang, Le Wang, Christine Cunningham, and Zhen Liu
Submissions from 2023
(Re)considering equity, inclusion and belonging in the updating of the early years learning framework for Australia: The potential and pitfalls of book sharing, Helen Adam, Lennie Barblett, Gill Kirk, and Gloria S. Boutte
Gender equity in early childhood picture books: A cross-cultural study of frequently read picture books in early childhood classrooms in Australia and the United States, Helen Adam and Laurie Harper
Investigating multigrade teaching (MGT) and learning practices in Maldives: Developing a framework for MGT, Aniyath Ali
MAVI 2021 special issue: The growing recognition of affect in mathematics education, Chiara Andrà, Ralf Erens, Vesife Hatisaru, and Benjamin Rott
Serious games for health promotion in adolescents – A systematic scoping review, Lesley Andrew, Donna Barwood, Julie Boston, Martin Masek, Lauren Bloomfield, and Amanda Devine
Social media and English language writing performances of a Ghanaian ESL class: The nexus, Ramos Asafo-Adjei, Ronald Osei Mensah, Ernest Kwesi Klu, and Enock Swanzy-Impraim
Digital literacy: A review of literature, Lennie Barblett, Raisa Akifeva, Leanne Lavina, and Fiona Boylan
‘We’re not useless, we know stuff!’ Gathering children’s voices to inform policy, Lennie Barblett, Francis Bobongie-Harris, Jennifer Cartmel, Fay Hadley, Linda Harrison, Susan Irvine, and Leanne Lavina
Transforming transitions to school: Using funds of knowledge and identity, Lennie Barblett, Fiona Boylan, and Amelia Ruscoe
Surviving child sexual abuse in women's artistic gymnastics: ‘It's beautiful, because had I stayed in the past, I wouldn’t have evolved as a person’, Natalie Barker-Ruchti and Valeria Varea
Professional teaching standards and inclusion in teacher education: Insights from a hearing-impaired health and physical education pre-service teacher’s professional experience, Donna Barwood, John O'Rourke, Dawn Penney, Andrew Jones, and Jordan Thomas
Examining single session peer-teaching instructional approaches on pre-service physical education teachers’ throwing techniques, Bradley Beseler, Mandy S. Plumb, Michael Spittle, Nicola F. Johnson, Jack T. Harvey, and Christopher Mesagno
Conversations with rain: Proposing poetic and non-linear interpretation strategies in the art gallery, Lilly Blue, Jo Pollitt, and Mindy Blaise
I think I can, I think I can’t: Design principles for fostering a growth mindset in the early years, Fiona Boylan, Lennie Barblett, and Marianne Knaus
Transforming transitions to primary school: Using children’s funds of knowledge and identity, Fiona Boylan, Lennie Barblett, Leanne Lavina, and Amelia Ruscoe
Great Muslim leaders: Lessons for education, Melanie C. Brooks and Miriam D. Ezzani
How public libraries in Western Australia support the language and literacy learning of children from birth to age three years, Jennifer Ruth Campbell-Hicks
Do children have a right to do nothing? exploring the place of passive leisure in Australian school age care, Jennifer Cartmel, Bruce Hurst, Francis Bobongie-Harris, Fay Hadley, Lennie Barblett, Linda Harrison, and Susan Irvine
Conceptualising the education and care workforce from the perspective of children and young people, Jennifer Cartmel, Susan Irvine, Linda Harrison, Lennie Barblett, Francis Bobongie-Harris, Leanne Lavina, and Fay Hadley
Chinese-speaking undergraduates in Australia: A lexical approach to teaching academic writing, Qin Chen, Anne Thwaite, and Brian Moon
Gendered pedagogy in senior secondary physical education curriculum enactment, Christopher Clark, Dawn Penney, Rachael Whittle, and Andrew Jones
School leadership, female empowerment and China’s rise, Christine Cunningham
Exploring a semi-immersive experiential program and the development of 21st century skills with early adolescent boys, Meaghan E. Cunnington
Mapping the leap: Differences in quality improvement in relation to assessment rating outcomes, Belinda Davis, Rosemary Dunn, Linda J. Harrison, Manjula Waniganayake, Fay Hadley, Rebecca Andrews, Hui Li, Susan Irvine, Lennie Barblett, and Maria Hatzigianni
Teaching writing in primary education (grades 1–6) in Australia: A national survey, Anabela de Abreu Malpique, Debora Valcan, Deborah Pino-Pasternak, and Susan Ledger
The costs of and economies of scale in supporting students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds in Australian higher education, Marcia Devlin, Liang Cheng Zhang, Daniel Edwards, Glenn Withers, Julie McMillan, Lynette Vernon, and Sue Trinidad
Leadership as a challenging opportunity: Nepali secondary principals’ contextual understandings and perception of their roles, Shankar Dhakal, Andrew Jones, and Geoffrey W. Lummis
Introduction: Linguistic discrimination and diversity from an autoethnographic perspective, Sender Dovchin, Qian Gong, Toni Dobinson, and Maggie McAlinden
Linguistic diversity and discrimination: Autoethnographies from women in academia, Sender Dovchin, Qian Gong, Toni Dobinson, and Maggie McAlinden
Adding to teachers’ assessment toolboxes: multiple-choice assessments of critical literacy for Australian senior school courses, Patricia Dowsett and Nathanael Reinertsen
An investigation into factors affecting motivation for boys playing string instruments at the transition to secondary school, Katie M. Doyle
Final report June 2023: Research impact evidence scheme - Research impact: Dr. Helen Adam, Maria Enriquez-Watt and Helen Adam
“I don’t want to come back now”: Teacher directed violence, Madeleine Erskine, Catherine Ferguson, and Kay Ayre
Who is leading the early years? An investigation of early childhood pedagogical leadership in school settings, Amie L. Fabry
Readability of Australian road safety information for the general public, Catherine Ferguson and Stephen Winn
The provision of vocational education and training within contemporary political socio-economic conditions: A review of the literature, Sarah Fogarty, Christine Cunningham, Michelle Striepe, and David Rhodes
Teachers’ understanding of the major sources of self-efficacy in early childhood, Dimity Franks, Lennie Barblett, and Gillian Kirk
Confirmatory factor analysis of two self-efficacy scales for astronomy understanding and robotic telescope use, R. Freed, David H. McKinnon, M. T. Fitzgerald, and S. Salimpour
Developing a resource for arts educators to enhance the social and emotional well-being of young people, Leanne Fried, Christine Lovering, Sarah Falconer, Jacinta Francis, Robyn Johnston, Karen Lombardi, Kevin Runions, Karen Forde, Naomi Crosby, and Lilly Blue
Achieving public value in human services: Moving beyond the public sector, David Gilchrist and Sarah Jefferson
Lesbian, anorexic, disabled, and big: Other ways of being a female physical education teacher, Gustavo González-Calvo and Valeria Varea
Exploring educational interactions in a pandemic situation through comics: an approach to the Spanish context, Gustavo González-Calvo, Valeria Varea, and J. Eduardo Sierra-Nieto
Intersections and conflicts between adolescent boys’ musical possible selves, university study, and parent values, Jason Goopy
‘I'm broken but I'm alive’: Gender, COVID-19 and higher education in Australia, Emily M. Gray, Jacqueline Ullman, Mindy Blaise, and Joanna Pollitt
Protocol for a mixed-methods investigation of quality improvement in early childhood education and care in Australia, Linda J. Harrison, Rebecca Andrews, Fay Hadley, Susan Irvine, Manjula Waniganayake, Lennie Barblett, Belinda Davis, Maria Hatzigianni, and Hui Li
Structures and systems influencing quality improvement in Australian early childhood education and care centres, Linda J. Harrison, Manjula Waniganayake, Jude Brown, Rebecca Andrews, Hui Li, Fay Hadley, Susan Irvine, Lennie Barblett, Belinda Davis, and Maria Hatzigianni
Mathematical connections–a growing construct, Vesife Hatisaru
Preservice secondary mathematics teachers’ perceptions of teacher knowledge and its sources, Vesife Hatisaru and Julia Collins
Educational leaders’ perceptions of STEM education revealed by their drawings and texts, Vesife Hatisaru, Garry Falloon, Andrew Seen, Sharon Fraser, Markus Powling, and Kim Beswick
Did you know mathematicians have hobbies outside mathematics like you and me?, Vesife Hatisaru and Sea Poked
A structural perspective to mathematics teaching, Vesife Hatisaru and Steven Richardson
Perceptions of teaching and learning of STEM revealed in university academics’ drawings, Vesife Hatisaru, Andrew Seen, and Sharon Fraser
The role of digital technologies in supporting quality improvement in Australian early childhood education and care settings, Maria Hatzigianni, Tanya Stephenson, Linda J. Harrison, Manjula Waniganayake, Philip Li, Lennie Barblett, Fay Hadley, Rebecca Andrews, Belinda Davis, and Susan Irvine
Factors affecting the selection of novels for study in Western Australian secondary english classrooms: Understanding teacher choices, Anne-Maree Hays
Models of school breakfast program implementation in Western Australia and the implications for supporting disadvantaged students, Susan M. Hill, Matthew F. Byrne, Elizabeth Wenden, Amanda Devine, Margaret Miller, Henrietta Quinlan, Donna Cross, Judy Eastham, and Miranda Chester
Exploring the potential of VR in enhancing authentic learning for EFL tertiary students in Vietnam, Diem T. N. Hoang, Nicola F. Johnson, and Maggie McAlinden
Extending a learning ecology with virtual reality mobile technology: Oral proficiency outcomes and students’ perceptions, Diem T. N. Hoang, Maggie McAlinden, and Nicola F. Johnson
Stakeholder perceptions of the feasibility of e-portfolio-based assessment of physical literacy in primary health and physical education, Jaxon Hogan, Dawn Penney, Eibhlish O’Hara, and Joseph Scott
Inclusive Communities? Collaborative communication practices between stakeholders supporting secondary students on the autism spectrum, Christina R. Holly
Investigating policy enactment in community sport coaching: Directions for future research, Ben Ives, Dawn Penney, Jimmy O’Gorman, Adam J. Nichol, Paul Potrac, and Lee Nelson
Grit or quit? How to help your child develop resilience, Sarah Jefferson
Whether it’s a new teacher or class – here’s what to do when your child is not loving it, Sarah Jefferson
The search for marigolds: Positive veteran teachers and why social support matters, Sarah Jefferson, Geoffrey M. Lowe, Christina Gray, and Peter Prout
More than below, but not quite above: Alterity, exclusion, and silence at 'home', Uma Jogulu and Maggie McAlinden
Going beyond: Cyber security curriculum in Western Australian primary and secondary schools. Final Report, Nicola F. Johnson, Ahmed Ibrahim, Leslie Sikos, and Marnie McKee
A systematic literature review of between-class ability grouping in Australia: Enduring tensions, new directions, Olivia Johnston and Becky Taylor
Students’ contrasting their experiences of teacher expectations in streamed and mixed ability classes: A study of grade 10 students in Western Australia, Olivia Johnston, Helen Wildy, and Jennifer Shand
Student voices that resonate – constructing composite narratives that represent students’ classroom experiences, Olivia Johnston, Helen Wildy, and Jennifer Shand