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Direct linkAyling, Natasha J.; Walsh, Kerryann; Williams, Kate E. – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2020
Mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect is a complex yet essential responsibility tasked to many professional groups working with children, including the early childhood education and care (ECEC) workforce. This paper provides a narrative review synthesising the empirical literature on factors influencing ECEC educators' reporting of child…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Disclosure, Child Abuse
Choo, Wan Yuen; Walsh, Kerryann; Chinna, Karuthan; Tey, Nai Peng – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2013
The Teacher Reporting Attitude Scale (TRAS) is a newly developed tool to assess teachers' attitudes toward reporting child abuse and neglect. This article reports on an investigation of the factor structure and psychometric properties of the short form Malay version of the TRAS. A self-report cross-sectional survey was conducted with 667 teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
Download full textWalsh, Kerryann; Laskey, Louise; McInnes, Elspeth; Farrell, Ann; Mathews, Ben; Briggs, Freda – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
A recent report delivered by the Australian Centerer for Child Protection has highlighted the need for empirical evidence of effective pedagogies for supporting teaching and learning of child protection content in Australian teacher education programs (Arnold & Mai-Taddeo, 2007). This paper advances this call by presenting case study accounts…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Child Abuse, Child Safety, Child Welfare
Walsh, Kerryann; Bridgstock, Ruth; Farrell, Ann; Rassafiani, Mehdi; Schweitzer, Robert – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2008
Objective: To identify the influence of multiple case, teacher and school characteristics on Australian primary school teachers' propensity to detect and report child physical abuse and neglect using vignettes as short hypothetical cases. Methods: A sample of 254 teachers completed a self-report questionnaire. They responded to a series of 32…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Education, Teacher Role
Walsh, Kerryann; Farrell, Ann – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
Child abuse and neglect are serious social problems that make extraordinary demands on teachers' knowledge and professionalism. Yet the field of education has been slow to develop a discipline-specific knowledge base about child abuse and neglect for teachers and teacher education programmes and there is a paucity empirical research into teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Problems, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
Walsh, Kerryann; Farrell, Ann; Bridgstock, Ruth; Schweitzer, Robert – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2006
This article establishes the important role of early childhood teachers in child abuse and neglect and argues for empirical research into their practice of detecting, and reporting, known or suspected child abuse and neglect in a State with new and unique reporting obligations for teachers. It emphasizes the practical value of such research for…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Responsibility
