Submissions from 2025
Fostering wellbeing through collective writing practices: Shut up & write! In higher education settings, Narelle Lemon, Aaron Bolzle, Malaika Santa Cruz, and Rennie Saunders
Using the arts to explore the multi-modality of wellbeing to grow wellbeing literacy, Narelle Lemon, Jason Goopy, and Megan McPherson
Cultivating safety, connection, and emotional regulation: Insights from the intersection of art, education, and research, Narelle Lemon, Christina Gray, and Jason Goopy
Understanding regional, rural and remote teacher wellbeing narratives through podcasting: A qualitative analysis of multiple stakeholder perspectives, Narelle Lemon and Marnie Harris
Cultivating wellbeing literacy in university contexts: A dialogue for systemic change, Narelle Lemon and Lanxi Huang
A call for change: Creative and making practices as essential practices to support wellbeing and the transformative potential of education, Narelle Lemon, Sharon McDonough, and Mark Selkrig
Creating wellbeing: The role of making practices in academic contexts, Narelle Lemon, Sharon McDonough, and Mark Selkrig
Making as wellbeing: An autoethnographic exploration of academic maker identities in higher education, Narelle Lemon, Sharon McDonough, and Mark Selkrig
The making academic: Perspectives on expressive practice and wellbeing in higher education, Narelle Lemon, Sharon McDonough, and Mark Selkrig
Empowering conversations: Exploring the potential of wellbeing literacy, Narelle Lemon, Lindsay G. Oades, and Jacqui Francis
Pedagogy of belonging: Cultivating wellbeing literacy in higher education, Narelle Lemon, Siobhan O’Brien, Naja Later, Shaun Britton, and Julia Prendergast
Who cares for the carers: A poetic inquiry of initial teacher educators of professional experience, Narelle Lemon, Carli Sanbrook, Rikki James, Marnie Harris, Tammy Green, Rozita Dass, Bev Adkin, and Gail Berman
Harnessing lived experience to promote accessible employment journeys, Emma Lovegrove, Denise Bertilone, Justin Brown, and Elle Beaumont-Bilsby
Finding their place: How teachers can become part of their rural communities, Mary-Anne Macdonald, Sarah Booth, Kirsten Lambert, Christina Gray, Terry Ngarritjan Kessaris, and Takeia Beard
Students as designers of digital games, Damian Maher, David A. Martin, Natalie McMaster, Stefan Schutt, and Ben Zunica
The contributions of writing tools for skillful writing: An introduction to the special issue, A. Malpique, R. Alves, and R. M. Joshi
The contributions of transcription skills to paper-based and computer-based text composing in the early years, Anabela Anabela Malpique, Mustafa Asil, Deborah Pino-Pasternak, Susan Ledger, and Timothy Teo
Motivation to write in the digital age: Examining early primary students’ attitudes towards paper and computer-based text composing, Anabela Malpique, Debora Valcan, Rozita Dass, Deborah Pino-Pasternak, and Susan Ledger
Teaching computer-based writing: Primary teachers’ preparation, self-efficacy, and instructional practices, Anabela Malpique, Debora Valcan, Deborah Pino-Pasternak, and Susan Ledger
Where are the alcohol advertising hotspots near schools?, Joelie Mandzufas, Karen Lombardi, Robyn S. Johnston, Alexia Bivoltsis, Justine Howard, Paula Hooper, and Gina Trapp
Mothers, social capital and children’s physical literacy journeys in rural Australia, Kate McCreery, Dawn Penney, and Ruth Jeanes
Graduate preservice teachers’ TPACK confidence to use and apply specific technology components for planning, teaching and learning purposes, Natalie McMaster, Michael D. Carey, and David A. Martin
I really try to model good practices: Reflecting on journal article publication from mid-career, Margaret K. Merga, Shannon Mason, and Julia Morris
Parents’ knowledge, understanding, and mediation practices of digital device use among children, Stephanie Milford
Exploring parent self-efficacy in children's digital device use: Understanding shame and self-stigma through a mixed-methods approach, Stephanie C. Milford, Lynette Vernon, Joseph J. Scott, and Nicola F. Johnson
Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) in timed and untimed writing tasks for primary learners, Candice Miller
Digital tools to promote or measure health literacy in children aged 3–5 years: Scoping review, Caron Molster, Jennifer Irvine, Amanda Devine, Ruth Wallace, Lennie Barblett, and Leesa Costello
Flexible furniture to support inclusive education: Developing learner agency and engagement in primary school, Julia E. Morris and Wesley Imms
The perceptions of Australian identity by year 5 and year 6 students in an Australian independent school, Renae Nahajski, Dianne Chambers, and Shane Lavery
Queering the environmental provocation, Karen Nociti
What is the theory underpinning wellbeing literacy?, Lindsay G. Oades, Narelle Lemon, and Jacqui Francis
Wellbeing literacy: Theory and practice through multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary lenses, Lindsay G. Oades, Narelle Lemon, Jacqui Francis, and Tim Lomas
Towards a playworld translanguaging approach in early childhood education, Grace Oakley, Carly Steele, Christine Robinson, Toni Dobinson, Sender Dovchin, and Wendy Cumming-Potvin
What is informal sport? Negotiating contemporary sporting forms, Justen O’Connor, Ruth Jeanes, Jonathan Magee, Ramón Spaaij, Dawn Penney, and Satoshi Miyashita
Navigating ethical complexities in health education: Exploring challenges in teaching food and health, E. Oljans, M. Quennerstedt, D. Barker, A. Caldeborg, and V. Varea
The impact of practicum job demands and resources on pre-service teachers’ occupational commitment and job intent, Jeremy Pan, Tony Loughland, Rebecca J. Collie, Andrew A. Kingsford-Smith, Mary Ryan, Caroline Mansfield, Rachelle Davey, Chrissy Monteleone, and Miriam Tanti
A testing load: A review of cognitive load in computer and paper-based learning and assessment, James Pengelley, Peter R. Whipp, and Anabela Malpique
Design and technology in Western Australia: Exploring the journey of pre-service teachers, Carol Puddicombe
Students as designers with 3D design and fabrication technologies, Carol Puddicombe, Rob Rouse, Marco Tolomei, and David Ellis
Risky topics in health education: Enacted content when students with migration backgrounds meet Swedish health education, Mikael Quennerstedt, Annica Caldeborg, Dean Barker, and Valeria Varea
Co-designing health-related digital tools with children: A scoping review of current practice, Pauline Roberts, Fiona Boylan, Patricia Collins, and Lennie Barblett
A hopeful or hopeless future? Perspectives on the challenges and opportunities in Catholic education, Christine Robinson and Linda Cranley
Responding to children’s voices: The new frontier in education policy reform, Amelia Ruscoe
Dialogic drawing: A pedagogical tool to promote and monitor learner engagement, Amelia Ruscoe and Leanne Lavina
Monitoring Children’s Learner Engagement: The Early Years. A practical guide to in school and learning High Impact Strategies that build strong learner engagement, Amelia Ruscoe and Leanne Lavina
Funds of knowledge and the transition to school: A scoping review, Amelia Ruscoe, Leanne Lavina, Lennie Barblett, and Fiona Boylan
How are we preparing Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand teachers to be health promotors? Examining physical activity, sleep and sun safety in initial teacher education, Joseph J. Scott, Alexandra P. Metse, Bronwen M. McNoe, Sally Blane, Sharyn Chin Fat, Justine Osborne, and Nicky Muir
Early outcomes of a structured literacy implementation across a school system: The Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn Catalyst program, Tanya Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Pamela Snow, Lorraine S. Hammond, Kym Simoncini, and Tina Daniel
Internationalizing Islamic higher education in Indonesia: A lesson learned from Australia, Sibawaihi Sibawaihi, Dwi Ratnasari, Sri Purnami, and Melanie Brooks
Challenging behaviour in the early years: Investigating teacher perceptions, Gillian Anne Smith
Understanding the identity work and aspirations of Indigenous males navigating elite Australian higher education, James A. Smith, Garth Stahl, Andrew Harvey, Braden Hill, Himanshu Gupta, Sam Moore, and Jianing Wang
Some comply while some defy: Elementary teachers’ responses to leadership mandates on reading comprehension instruction, Reid J. Smith, Pamela C. Snow, Tanya A. Serry, and Lorraine S. Hammond
Naming Māori learning spaces, Georgina Tuari Stewart, Leon Benade, Valance Smith, Alastair Wells, and Amanda Yates
Lessons from Australasian principals’ experiences with crises: Adapting, learning and transforming, Michelle Striepe, Christine Cunningham, Mohini Devi, David Gurr, Fiona Longmuir, Sylvia Robertson, Adam Taylor, and Pauline Thompson
Specialisation in the primary education community, Kevin Sullivan, Susan Main, Joseph J. Scott, Kin Eng Chin, Jason Boron, Matthew Byrne, Eibhlish O'Hara, Elisabeth Taylor, Rozita Dass, Kuki Singh, Helen Adam, and Gail Berman
Creative processes in visual arts in education: A conceptual framework, Enock Swanzy-Impraim
Creativity enactment in Ghanaian secondary visual arts programmes: An autoethnographic perspective, Enock Swanzy-Impraim and Geoffrey W. Lummis
“Meeting standards”: Initial teacher education and preparation of generalist pre-service teachers to teach health and physical education, Janeen Thomsett
Exploring the gap between students’ and teachers’ perceptions of online learning interaction, Thanh Vu To, Diem Thi Ngoc Hoang, Linh Thuy Nguyen, and Tien Tung Le
Thinking through the ground: Art, ecology, and relational wellbeing, Cassandra Tytler
Sexisms and gender-washing in Australian academia: Public front, private realities, Jacqueline Ullman, Emily Gray, Mindy Blaise, and Lucy Hobby
Mapping metaphors with generative AI: Collective perspectives in higher education, Carmen Vallis, Stephanie Wilson, Alison Casey, Zoe Alderton, Praveena Chandra, Tianya Chen, Corinna Galliano, Jacquelyn Hole, Advaith Madhav, Joanne Nash, Ju Li Ng, Benedicte Rokvic, Wendy Taleo, Antony J.H. Tibbs, Christie van Diggele, and Dewa Wardak
Quality physical education in Australia, Valeria Varea
Hermanas in dialogue: Amplifying female South American voices in Australian health and physical education teacher education, Valeria Varea, Luiza Lana Goncalves, and Carla Nascimento Luguetti
Sport participation and the pursuit of active and healthy lifestyles: Everyday athletes’ relationships with eating and exercise, Valeria Varea, Eibhlish O'Hara, Dawn Penney, and Victoria Evans
The anatomy of body shaming in sports coaching, Valeria Varea, Robert S. Primus, Natalie Barker-Ruchti, and Mikael Quennerstedt
Ghostbusters: Hunting health education within physical education, Valeria Varea and Ana Riccetti
Health education in Swedish schools–What’s on offer?, V. Varea, A. Caldeborg, D. Barker, and M. Quennerstedt
Little Aussie bugs: Piloting health literacy educational resources at Early Childhood Education and Care, Ruth Wallace, Amelia Ruscoe, Leesa Costello, Gillian Kirk, Ros Sambell, and Amanda Devine
Students as designers with robotics and control systems, Katie Waters, David A. Martin, Natalie McMaster, Ben Zunica, Bronwyn Tregenza, and Martin Levins
The teacher wellbeing turn: Neuropolitics, education and the psy-complex, Andrew W. Wilkins, Antonio Olmedo, Brad Gobby, and Saul Karnovsky
Ability grouping in primary physical education in England: Moving beyond binary discourses and practices, Shaun D. Wilkinson and Dawn Penney
A national survey of gendered grouping practices in secondary school physical education in England, Shaun D. Wilkinson and Dawn Penney
Experimenting with diffractive analysis practices while walking-with river: Audiowalking and micromapping, Vanessa Wintoneak
Regenerative values in sustainability education: Learning with ecological family, Sandra Wooltorton, Mindy Blaise, Anne Poelina, and Laurie Guimond
Western Australian graduate teacher perceptions of teacher performance assessments, Janine E. Wyatt, Caroline Mansfield, and Paula Mildenhall
Submissions from 2024
Family diversity in children's books: What does your book collection say to children, Helen Adam
‘I’m not from a country, I’m from Australia.’ Costumes, scarves, and fruit on their heads: The urgent need for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy when sharing diverse books with children, Helen Adam and Matthew Byrne
Where are the diverse families in Australian children’s literature? Impacts and consideration for language and literacy in the early years, Helen Adam, Sally Murphy, Yvonne Urquhart, and Katira Ahmed
A figurational analysis of health and/or physical education teacher educators’ conceptualisations of policy, and their sociogenesis, Laura Alfrey, Dylan Scanlon, David Aldous, Jenna Lorusso, Kellie Baker, Christopher Clark, and Mo Jafar
West African families' experiences and perspectives regarding the Australian education system: An ethnographic case study in Western Australia, Davida Aba Mensima Asante-Nimako
Prioritising children’s participation in research: Including children’s voices in updating a national early learning framework, Lennie Barblett, Jennifer Cartmel, Leanne Lavina, Fay Hadley, Susan Irvine, Linda J. Harrison, and Francis Bobongie-Harris
Learning through video gameplay: A case study, Pauline Bellamy
An exploration into the influence of a literacy-based text messaging program on home literacy practices, Amanda Binns
The benefits of a literacy and numeracy service-learning program for pre-service teachers: A partnership approach, Julie Boston and Nicola F. Johnson
Critical reflection through a growth mindset: Project report, Fiona Boylan
Fostering children's growth mindset in the early years, Fiona Boylan
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
Hot leadership, cool leadership: How education policies are implemented (and ignored) in schools, Jeffrey S. Brooks and Melanie C. Brooks
Two schools, one Islam, Melanie Brooks
Islam, education, and freedom: An uncommon perspective on leadership, Melanie C. Brooks and Miriam D. Ezzani
In the eyes of the other: Parental perspectives on youth mental illness, Natalie K. M. Brown
Self-regulation and metacognition in a flipped classroom: EFL students’ perspectives at a Vietnamese university, Thi H. Bui and Nicola F. Johnson
An expanded early literacy role for public libraries, J. R. Campbell-Hicks
The development and validation of a self-audit survey instrument that evaluates preservice teachers’ confidence to use technologies to support student learning, Michael D. Carey, David A. Martin, and Natalie McMaster
The living room peer support training: Leading the way in unlocking mental health benefits for university students in peer-led service models in higher education, Amanda L. Cole and Dawn Reid
Personal values, subjective wellbeing, and the effects of perceived social support in childhood: A pre-registered study, Patricia R. Collins, Joanne Sneddon, and Julie A. Lee
The impact of literacy on Aboriginal people who have contact with the criminal justice system, Annmaree Cox
Institutional responses to ChatGPT: Analysing the academic integrity policies of four public and private institutions of higher education in Australia, Carmela De Maio
Promoting equity and inclusivity: Exploring equitable leadership practices in diverse Nepali schools, Shankar Dhakal