Theses from 2019
Parents as partners in learning, Stephanie Louise McDonald
Listening to our best: Making way for passionate veteran teachers to model and lead excellence in effective teaching, learning, and assessment, D. Meister and Peter Prout
School libraries fostering children's literacy and literature learning: Mitigating the barriers, Margaret K. Merga
‘The constant rejections hurt’: Skills and personal attributes needed to successfully complete a thesis by publication, Margaret K. Merga, Shannon Mason, and Julia E. Morris
‘What do I even call this?’ Challenges and possibilities of undertaking a thesis by publication, Margaret K. Merga, Shannon Mason, and Julia E. Morris
10 ways to get the most out of silent reading in schools, Margaret Kristin Merga
Collaborating with teacher librarians to support adolescents’ literacy and literature learning, Margaret Kristin Merga
Do librarians feel that their profession is valued in contemporary schools?, Margaret Kristin Merga
How do librarians in schools support struggling readers?, Margaret Kristin Merga
Librarians in schools as literacy educators, Margaret Kristin Merga
Read aloud to your children to boost their vocabulary, Margaret Kristin Merga
Ten ways teacher librarians improve literacy in schools, Margaret Kristin Merga
Building a school reading culture: Teacher librarians’ perceptions of enabling and constraining factors, Margaret Kristin Merga and Shannon Mason
‘Let’s design a waterproof shoe for a refugee child’: how to teach science and maths so students actually care, Paula Mildenhall
The honey bees game: Engaging and inspiring the community with STEM, Paula Mildenhall, Barbara Sherriff, and B. Cowie
A STEM extended learning project to raise awareness of social justice in a Year 3 primary classroom, P. Mildenhall, B. Cowie, and B. Sherriff
The development of a student engagement instrument for the responding strand in visual arts, Julia Morris
Fluid identities in multiple cultural practices: How practice changes becoming teachers’ perceptions of themselves, Julia Morris and Kathryn Coleman
Helping teachers ‘practise what they teach’ could help them stay teaching for longer, Julia E. Morris and Wesley Imms
Using local rural knowledge to enhance STEM learning for gifted and talented students in Australia, Julia Morris, Eileen Slater, Michael T. Fitzgerald, Geoffrey W. Lummis, and Eddie van Etten
The impact of video as a self-reflective tool for improvement of teacher feedback practices, Julia Mueller
Using ICT to foster collaborative writing for EFL university students in Vietnam, Thi Thu Lan Nguyen
Using a scale to explore pre-service physical education teachers' attitudes towards difference: Methodological opportunities and tensions, Justen O'Connor, Laura Alfrey, Ruth Jeanes, and Dawn Penney
Are we all on course? A curriculum mapping comparison of three Australian university open-access enabling programs, John A. O'Rourke, Bronwyn Relf, Nicole Crawford, and Sue Sharp
They're always there for me! Friendship and meaning in young people's lives?, John O'Rourke, Craig Harms, and Lynne Cohen
Assessment in physical education, Dawn Penney
Associations between the home environment, parenting and self-regulation in early childhood, Deborah Pino-Pasternak, Debora Valcan, and Anabela Malpique
Agents of regional-global transformation: Federation university Gippsland education (FUGuE) researchers, Susan Plowright, Monica Green, and Nicola F. Johnson
An important, but neglected aspect of learning assistance in higher education: Exploring the digital learning capacity of academic language and learning practitioners, Anna Podorova, Sarah Irvine, Michael Kilmister, Richard Hewison, Amanda Janssen, Alejandra Speziali, Logan Balavijendran, Megan Kek, and Maggie McAlinden
Conversations with rain: A multi-platform research-creation project, Jo Pollitt, Lilly Blue, and Mindy Blaise
Understanding the complex work of Aboriginal education workers in schools, Anne Price, Elizabeth Jackson-Barrett, Graeme Gower, and Jan Herrington
An elixir for veteran teachers: The power of social connections in keeping these teachers passionate and enthusiastic in their work, Peter F. Prout, Geoffrey M. Lowe, Christina C. Gray, and Sarah Jefferson
‘My girlfriend is intimidated by the idea of having sex. What should I do?’, David Rhodes
Selecting apps for young learners: What should be considered?, Pauline Roberts
Early years teachers’ perspectives on the effects of NAPLAN on stakeholder wellbeing and the impact on early years pedagogy and curriculum, Pauline Roberts, Lennie Barblett, and Ken Robinson
Growing phonological and morphological knowledge and improving spelling outcomes in Year 2 primary school children through Explicit Instruction and contextualised dictation, Sally Louise Robinson-Kooi
Correction to: Parent and teacher perceptions of NAPLAN in a sample of Independent schools in Western Australia (The Australian Educational Researcher, (2018), 45, 4, (493-513), 10.1007/s13384-018-0270-2), S. L. Rogers, L. Barblett, and K. Robinson
Movement-versus sporting-based physical education in elementary schools: Does either ensure quality?, Joseph John Scott
Are we teaching children to be afraid of exams?, Mandie Shean
Don’t calm down! Exam stress may not be fun but it can help you get better marks, Mandie Shean
John Marsden says parents and schools are failing kids, but his book offers little evidence, Mandie Shean
How exemplary teachers promote scientific reasoning and higher order thinking in primary science, Barbara Kim Sherriff
Sustaining multi-partner engaged research: Principles, processes and tensions, Kuki Singh, Paula Mildenhall, Peter Roberts, and Julie Wren
Video cued teacher reflection to guide enhancement of student engagement in a specialist primary classroom, Tamara Nicole Standley
Primary school teachers’ experience of mathematics education, Sarah Tamburri, Paula Mildenhall, and Fiona Budgen
Socioeconomic correlates of overweight and obesity among ever-married urban women in Bangladesh, Tania Sultana Tanwi, Sayan Chakrabarty, Syed Hasanuzzaman, Sue Saltmarsh, and Stephen Winn
Reaching out to the disaffected: Mindfulness and art therapy for building resilience to violent extremism, Elisabeth (Lily) Taylor
Ethical dilemma story pedagogy—a constructivist approach to values learning and ethical understanding, E. Taylor, P. C. Taylor, and J. Hill
Transformative STEAM education for sustainable development, P. C. S. Taylor and E. Taylor
The use of ICT by science teachers in middle secondary science education in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, Sampa Tshewang
A video study of quality teaching and learning in three countries, Russell Tytler, Hsiao-Lan Sharon Chen, Mark Hackling, and Jorg Ramseger
An investigation of ICT policy implementation in an EFL teacher education program in Vietnam, Phan Thu Ngan Vo
Engaging and partnering with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and caregivers, Simone White, Peter Anderson, Graeme Gower, Matt Byrne, Maria Bennet, Alison Quin, and Anna Darling
ELL's science meaning making in multimodal inquiry: A case-study in a Hong Kong bilingual school, Melanie Williams, Kok-Sing Tang, and Mihye Won
Technology teacher education in Australia, P. John Williams and Jeremy Pagram
Multiple perspectives on attachment theory: Investigating educators’ knowledge and understanding, Nadia Wilson-Ali, Caroline Barratt-Pugh, and Marianne Knaus
Children’s Knowledge, Identity and Right to Participation in Driving Curriculum Decision-Making, Vanessa Wintoneak
Submissions from 2018
Teacher identity construction in a TESOL Graduate Certificate of Education in Western Australia, Arman Abednia
Teacher reform in Indonesia: can offshore programs create lasting pedagogical shift?, William J. Allen, Merv B. Hyde, Robert Whannel, and Maureen O’Neill
An unapologetic feminist response, Bidisha Banerjee and Mindy Blaise
Editorial (Australasian Journal of Early Childhood v.43 i.1), Lennie Barblett
National quality standard in schools: Leadership enabling power and agency, Lennie Barblett and Gillian Kirk
Evaluation of the KindiLink Pilot Initiative in Western Australia Volume 1: Overview and Key Findings, Caroline Barratt-Pugh, Lennie Barblett, Trudi Cooper, Marianne Knaus, Susan Hill, Cath Ferguson, and Cindy Mclean
Evaluation of the KindiLink Pilot initiative in Western Australia Volume 2: Survey Data (2016-2018), Caroline Barratt-Pugh, Lennie Barblett, Trudi Cooper, Marianne Knaus, Susan Hill, Cath Ferguson, and Cindy Mclean
Evaluation of the KindiLink Pilot initiative in Western Australia Volume 3: Case Studies (2016-2018) June 2018, Caroline Barratt-Pugh, Lennie Barblett, Trudi Cooper, Marianne Knaus, Susan Hill, Cath Ferguson, and Cindy Mclean
Evaluation of the KindiLink Pilot initiative in Western Australia Volume 4: Reflective Journal, Caroline Barratt-Pugh, Lennie Barblett, Trudi Cooper, Marianne Knaus, Susan Hill, Cath Ferguson, and Cindy Mclean
Astronomy And Science Student Attitudes (ASSA): A Short Review And Validation Of A New Instrument, Sophie Bartlett, Michael Fitzgerald, David H. McKinnon, Lena Danaia, and Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway
Blowing a whistle, how hard can it be? An exploration of practicum experiences for a pre-service health and physical education teacher with a hearing impairment, Donna Barwood, Carli Sanbrook, John O'Rourke, Andrew Jones, and Jordan Thomas
a/r/t + design: one designer’s experience as a/r/tographer, Alison Blackwell
Enhancing young children’s science identity through pedagogical practices, Elaine Blake and Christine Howitt
Early childhood teachers’ perspectives of growth mindset: Developing agency in children, Fiona Boylan, Lennie Barblett, and Marianne J. Knaus
Leadership in higher education from a transrelational perspective, Christopher M. Branson, Maureen Marra, Margaret Franken, and Dawn Penney
Examination physical education, Trent D. Brown and Dawn Penney
Evaluation of the Foodbank WA School Breakfast and Nutrition Education Program: Final report, Matt Byrne, Susan Hill, Elizabeth Wenden, Amanda Devine, Margaret Miller, Henrietta Quinlan, Thérèse Shaw, Judy Eastham, and Donna Cross
Maximising the contributions of PHD graduates to national development: the case of the Seychelles, Marina Fatima Confait
Beyond the assumptions: Religious schools and their influence on students’ social and civic development, Graeme Cross, Glenda Campbell-Evans, and Jan Gray
An investigation into school inspection policies in Western Australian state education performed by the Expert Review Group, Christine Cunningham
Professional standards for teachers: "Pass the message game", Christopher Dann
Enhancing learning and assessment of pre-service teachers on practicum placements using mobile technologies with video capture, Christopher E. Dann
Feedback, reflection, and assessment practices in practicum placements: The underpinning research design and methodology, Christopher E. Dann
Exemplifying formative assessment practices in the field through case study: Concepts, issues, and challenges, Christopher E. Dann and Beverly Dann
Formative assessment via video feedback on practicum: Implications for higher education and professional teacher accreditation bodies, Christopher E. Dann, Beverly Dann, and Shirley O'Neill
Positioning preservice teacher formative assessment in the literature, Christopher E. Dann and Shirley O'Neill
What do students believe about effective classroom management? A mixed-methods investigation in Western Australian high schools, Helen Egeberg and Andrew McConney
Is positive education another fad? Perhaps, but it’s supported by good research, Cath Ferguson
The Our Solar Siblings Pipeline: Tackling the data issues of the scaling problem for robotic telescope based astronomy education projects, Michael Fitzgerald
A brief overview of robotic telescopes, student research and education research in the English literature, Michael Fitzgerald, Ross Cutts, Saeed Salimpour, and Stephanie Slater
Our Solar Siblings: A high school focused robotic telescope-based astronomy education project, Michael Fitzgerald, David H. McKinnon, Lena Danaia, Ross Cutts, Saeed Salimpour, and Mariana Sacchi
"I felt that I could be whatever I wanted": Pre-service drama teachers' prior experiences and beliefs about teaching drama, Christina C. Gray, Robin Pascoe, and Peter Wright
Which tech will I use? Trends in students’ use and ownership of oechnology in a Thai university, an ongoing study, Yuwanuch Gulateee, Jeremy Pagram, and Barbara Combes
Teachers' beliefs about knowledge of teaching and their impact on teaching practices, Vesife Hatisaru
Supporting postgraduate coursework students through their time of transition, Anne-Maree Hays and Sue Sharp
A study on the impact of a music looping technology intervention upon pre-service generalist teachers’ self-efficacy to teach music in primary schools, John Nathan Heyworth
Teacher self-efficacy research in English as a Foreign Language contexts: A systematic review, Thinh Hoang
Embedding play-based learning into junior primary (Year 1 and 2) Curriculum in WA, Jenny A, Jay and Marianne J. Knaus
Investigating the 'integration of theory and practice' in examination physical education, Andy Jones and Dawn Penney
Retention in a Bachelor of Education (Early childhood studies) course: students say why they stay and others leave, Gillian Kirk
Supporting kindergarten children’s social and emotional development: Examining the synergetic role of environments, play and relationships, Gillian Kirk and Jenny Jay