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Cole, David R. – Literacy, 2013
Sudanese families arriving in Australia bring with them a wealth of language and cultural resources that are currently not recognised by the Australian education system. This paper challenges such a position by investigating the narratives of the Sudanese Australians from a Deleuzian perspective. A Deleuzian perspective in education promotes the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Literacy, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries
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Lee, Scott; McDonough, Andrea; Bird, Jo – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Self-talk has been recognised as an important tool used by children to regulate their thinking and behaviour. Existing studies typically characterise children's self-talk according to broad categories that do not allow for investigation of self-regulatory aspects of children's internalised self-talk. The findings reported in this paper are based…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students, Self Management
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Mevawalla, Zinnia; Hadley, Fay – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2012
This article investigates early childhood educators' perceptions of advocacy in raising the professional status with multiple stakeholders in diverse contexts. The article reports on findings from a phenomenological study investigating the perceptions of 12 educators working full time in long-day-care settings across Sydney, New South Wales (NSW),…
Descriptors: Professional Recognition, Children, Foreign Countries, Phenomenology
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Headley, Clea J.; Campbell, Marilyn A. – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2011
This study investigated the ability of primary school teachers to recognise and refer children with anxiety symptoms. Two hundred and ninety-nine primary school teachers completed a questionnaire exploring their recognition and referral responses to five hypothetical vignettes that described boys and girls with varying severity of anxiety…
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Teachers, Referral, Anxiety