Susanne Garvis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5848644 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susanne Garvis |
| NOMBRES | Susanne |
| APELLIDO | Garvis |
| FIRMA | GARVIS S |
| AFILIACIONES | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2793-4466 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Teacher-led Self-regulation Programs in the Early Years as Cultural Adaptations
Teacher-led self-regulation (SR) interventions in the early years offer strong potential for sustainability, but their success depends on more than curriculum design. This paper focuses on the Creating Connections Australia feasibility study (known as ‘Brain Train’ by participants) to examine three interconnected dimensions shaping outcomes: teachers as interventionists, program design, and parental partnerships. The study was implemented through…
Exploring Time, Context, and Teacher Practices Associated with Executive Functions in Australian Preschool Settings
The pedagogical practices of early childhood teachers can help to develop executive functions (EFs) in children. However, which practices foster these functions, how much time early childhood teachers devote to supporting EFs, and when such interactions may occur require research attention. Using a quantitatively driven concurrent design, this study employed an exploratory adaptation of the Preschool-Setting Executive Function (PSEF) observationa…
Pedagogical Practices for Children Under Three Years
There is an unprecedented number of children in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings owing to the increase in maternal employment over the past 40 years and recognition of the educational value of ECEC experience. What the educator does impacts children’s learning, yet pedagogical approaches with children under three years are not clearly understood by educators. Legislation across Australia requires educators to be university-quali…
Gendered organisational impacts on women’s educational leadership aspirations in schools
Women dominate the teaching workforce; however, this numerical representation has not translated into equitable participation in principal leadership roles. Situated within gendered organisational structures, this study draws on role congruity theory to examine how organisational factors shape women’s aspirations to the principal position. Focusing on women currently occupying middle-level leadership roles in schools, the study investigates the s…
A Snapshot of Early Childhood Teachers’ Pay Across Australia / La coyuntura de los salarios de los docentes de primera infancia en Australia
Across Australia, early childhood (EC) teachers can work in a variety of settings in the prior-to-school sector (profit and not for profit). The EC teacher qualification must be recognised by the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority. The settings are governed by differing enterprise bargaining agreements (EBAs) that oversee salaries and conditions. The literature reveals that gender, socioeconomic status and diversity underp…
Gaps, compliance or variation in Australian early childhood teacher education
In Australia, there has been rapid growth in the demand for early childhood education and care programmes, leading to strong demand for early childhood teachers. To become an early childhood teacher, potential candidates must complete an approved early childhood teacher education programme. In this paper we explore the approved programmes in Australia ( N = 102) that provide early childhood teacher education (from January 2024). We look at the na…
Early childhood teachers’ understanding of executive functions and strategies employed to facilitate them
Introduction Adult-child interactions have a noteworthy influence over how executive functions develop. However, despite recognising the importance of executive functions in a child’s success, little research has been undertaken to explore the role of early childhood teachers in facilitating the development of executive functions in children through their teaching practice. The current study thus explored what understanding early childhood teache…
Parents’ Views on the Significance of Formal Preschool Teacher Education in Sweden
In Sweden, collaboration between families and preschools is strongly emphasized, yet little is known about how parents perceive preschool teachers’ education, qualifications, and professional skills. Through a socio-cultural lens, this article explores parents’ views on preschool teacher competence within the context of parent–teacher partnerships. It is guided by the central question: What skills, competencies, and qualifications do parents cons…
Australian multilingual early childhood educators’ use of languages in early childhood education settings
Dynamic and innovative pedagogical language experiences for young children can support development of children’s diverse linguistic knowledge. However, planning and implementing this pedagogy can be challenging for early childhood (EC) educators. This study uses a Bourdieusian theoretical lens to explore how three Australian multilingual EC educators use their linguistic capabilities, knowledge and skills in EC education settings. The article rep…
The care paradox
Photographs of Play
Research affirms positive results between children’s play and academic success. While play is heavily featured within the early childhood curriculum, limited studies have explored how play is actually implemented within early years settings. The aim of this study was to enhance children’s play and learning by using photographs to explore play-related pedagogical practices of early childhood teachers in Australia over time. Using visual narrative …
Young Children’s Play and the Role of Grandparents as Play Partners during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Play involves diverse meaning-making for young children and grandparents. This paper derives from a larger intergenerational family practices project conducted in Australia during 2021–2022 against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research team undertook intergenerational group interviews and filmed family play activities in addition to collecting videoclips and photos of young children’s play from six families. In this paper, vignettes…
Assessing the quality of early childhood education and care in Australia
While access to quality education in early childhood is an international priority, the characteristics of quality continue to be debated. In the Australian context, differing views on the characteristics of quality may be a result of differing stakeholder priorities. Divergent notions of quality may lead to initiatives that emphasize educator practice and frame a dominant discourse that situates responsibility for enactment of quality at Early Ch…
Teacher Educator Wellbeing, Stress and Burnout
Research reveals that due to the intensifying demands of higher education work environments, academic staff are reporting increased levels of burnout and stress and decreasing wellbeing. Teacher educators are academic staff who are involved with teaching and research in the field of Initial Teacher Education (ITE). This scoping review aimed to draw together research about teacher educator wellbeing, stress and burnout, and to identify where there…
Educators’ Construction of a Sense of Belonging in Ecec
The involvement of refugee families in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a complex issue in many countries. In this paper, we explore how early childhood (EC) educators construct refugee families’ sense of belonging in two metropolitan and one regional EC setting in Victoria, Australia. We undertook a multiple case study, analyzing interview data. We implemented Bourdieu’s notion of cultural capital and identity capital, drawing on the…
A visual analysis intergenerational play histories and practices
Exploring play and leisure histories and practices in a visual analysis of family photos opens ways to scrutinize intergenerational relationships. In this paper, we explore ideas about interactions between the old and young, and within and across generations through a visual analysis of play and leisure activities. By looking back through five generations of family photos of one Australian family, we examine play and leisure practices of older ge…
Australian Research in Early Childhood Education and Care
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) remains a priority area for public policy, internationally and in Australia. However, an analysis of empirical research published internationally up to 2008 has identified a bias toward positivist methodologies within a “scientific/psychological’ rather than educational perspective and with a focus on the interactions between preschoolers, family, and child care variables. For some researchers, this bias …
(Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe
I’m learning how to do it’
The role of early childhood education and care (ECEC) is to support the learning and development of children in collaboration with families. The notion of inclusion in ECEC provides children with a sense of agency in becoming a learner able to participate fully and actively in their community. This paper illustrates how ECEC assessment approaches risk labelling young children in ‘deficit’ terms. The paper through a case study critically reflects …
Is Teacher Qualification Associated With the Quality of the Early Childhood Education and Care Environment? A Meta-Analytic Review
Poor-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) can be detrimental to the development of children, as it may lead to poor social, emotional, educational, health, economic, and behavioral outcomes. A lack of consensus, however, regarding the strength of the relationship between teacher qualification and the quality of the ECEC environment makes it difficult to identify strategies that could enhance developmental and educational outcomes. Th…
Narrative Constellations
Narrative research in contemporary times can free social scientists from the rhetorical forms (Emihovich, 1995) that alienate children and families from their own traditions. Through the use of narrative we are able to recognise the power of subjectivity in allowing open dialogue and co-construction of meaning. Becoming comfortable with narrative research also means accepting ideas that the world has no fixed rules for assigning behaviour (Emihov…
Being “In and Out”
This book is about a network of women who as a collective and individuals can share their stories to indeed help themselves as well as others. Our stories assist in the telling and retelling of important events. Reflecting on these events allow the ‘processing’, ‘figuring out’ and ‘inquiring’, leading to behavioural actions to change situations. The fact that we are women unites us as we have common elements with our roles both within academia, …
Pre-Service Student-Teacher Self-efficacy Beliefs
Pre-service teacher education programs play an important role in the development of beginning teacher self-efficacy and identity. Research suggests that this development is influenced by the ‘apprenticeship of learning’. However, there remains limited research about the self-efficacy beliefs and identity construction of beginning pre-service teachers entering teacher training, and the impact of the education programs on the development of these a…
Insight from the Public on Home Economics and Formal Food Literacy
In 2010, a newspaper article speculating about the inclusion of cooking in the Queensland, Australia, school curriculum was published. Readers were invited to post comments to a newspaper-managed blog. Ninety-seven posts were made. These posts (N = 97) comprise the data for this study. Data were analyzed using Leximancer to determine frequency and connection of terminology. The analysis found “cooking” to be the core concept, connected to either …
Insight from the Public on Home Economics and Formal Food Literacy
In 2010, a newspaper article speculating about the inclusion of cooking in the Queensland, Australia, school curriculum was published. Readers were invited to post comments to a newspaper-managed blog. Ninety-seven posts were made. These posts (N = 97) comprise the data for this study. Data were analyzed using Leximancer to determine frequency and connection of terminology. The analysis found “cooking” to be the core concept, connected to either …
I’m learning how to do it’
The role of early childhood education and care (ECEC) is to support the learning and development of children in collaboration with families. The notion of inclusion in ECEC provides children with a sense of agency in becoming a learner able to participate fully and actively in their community. This paper illustrates how ECEC assessment approaches risk labelling young children in ‘deficit’ terms. The paper through a case study critically reflects …
Pre-Service Student-Teacher Self-efficacy Beliefs
Pre-service teacher education programs play an important role in the development of beginning teacher self-efficacy and identity. Research suggests that this development is influenced by the ‘apprenticeship of learning’. However, there remains limited research about the self-efficacy beliefs and identity construction of beginning pre-service teachers entering teacher training, and the impact of the education programs on the development of these a…
Insight from the Public on Home Economics and Formal Food Literacy
In 2010, a newspaper article speculating about the inclusion of cooking in the Queensland, Australia, school curriculum was published. Readers were invited to post comments to a newspaper-managed blog. Ninety-seven posts were made. These posts (N = 97) comprise the data for this study. Data were analyzed using Leximancer to determine frequency and connection of terminology. The analysis found “cooking” to be the core concept, connected to either …
Being “In and Out”
This book is about a network of women who as a collective and individuals can share their stories to indeed help themselves as well as others. Our stories assist in the telling and retelling of important events. Reflecting on these events allow the ‘processing’, ‘figuring out’ and ‘inquiring’, leading to behavioural actions to change situations. The fact that we are women unites us as we have common elements with our roles both within academia, …
Narrative Constellations
Narrative research in contemporary times can free social scientists from the rhetorical forms (Emihovich, 1995) that alienate children and families from their own traditions. Through the use of narrative we are able to recognise the power of subjectivity in allowing open dialogue and co-construction of meaning. Becoming comfortable with narrative research also means accepting ideas that the world has no fixed rules for assigning behaviour (Emihov…
Is Teacher Qualification Associated With the Quality of the Early Childhood Education and Care Environment? A Meta-Analytic Review
Poor-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) can be detrimental to the development of children, as it may lead to poor social, emotional, educational, health, economic, and behavioral outcomes. A lack of consensus, however, regarding the strength of the relationship between teacher qualification and the quality of the ECEC environment makes it difficult to identify strategies that could enhance developmental and educational outcomes. Th…
(Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe
I’m learning how to do it’
The role of early childhood education and care (ECEC) is to support the learning and development of children in collaboration with families. The notion of inclusion in ECEC provides children with a sense of agency in becoming a learner able to participate fully and actively in their community. This paper illustrates how ECEC assessment approaches risk labelling young children in ‘deficit’ terms. The paper through a case study critically reflects …
Australian Research in Early Childhood Education and Care
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) remains a priority area for public policy, internationally and in Australia. However, an analysis of empirical research published internationally up to 2008 has identified a bias toward positivist methodologies within a “scientific/psychological’ rather than educational perspective and with a focus on the interactions between preschoolers, family, and child care variables. For some researchers, this bias …
Assessing the quality of early childhood education and care in Australia
While access to quality education in early childhood is an international priority, the characteristics of quality continue to be debated. In the Australian context, differing views on the characteristics of quality may be a result of differing stakeholder priorities. Divergent notions of quality may lead to initiatives that emphasize educator practice and frame a dominant discourse that situates responsibility for enactment of quality at Early Ch…
Teacher Educator Wellbeing, Stress and Burnout
Research reveals that due to the intensifying demands of higher education work environments, academic staff are reporting increased levels of burnout and stress and decreasing wellbeing. Teacher educators are academic staff who are involved with teaching and research in the field of Initial Teacher Education (ITE). This scoping review aimed to draw together research about teacher educator wellbeing, stress and burnout, and to identify where there…
Educators’ Construction of a Sense of Belonging in Ecec
The involvement of refugee families in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a complex issue in many countries. In this paper, we explore how early childhood (EC) educators construct refugee families’ sense of belonging in two metropolitan and one regional EC setting in Victoria, Australia. We undertook a multiple case study, analyzing interview data. We implemented Bourdieu’s notion of cultural capital and identity capital, drawing on the…
A visual analysis intergenerational play histories and practices
Exploring play and leisure histories and practices in a visual analysis of family photos opens ways to scrutinize intergenerational relationships. In this paper, we explore ideas about interactions between the old and young, and within and across generations through a visual analysis of play and leisure activities. By looking back through five generations of family photos of one Australian family, we examine play and leisure practices of older ge…
Photographs of Play
Research affirms positive results between children’s play and academic success. While play is heavily featured within the early childhood curriculum, limited studies have explored how play is actually implemented within early years settings. The aim of this study was to enhance children’s play and learning by using photographs to explore play-related pedagogical practices of early childhood teachers in Australia over time. Using visual narrative …
Young Children’s Play and the Role of Grandparents as Play Partners during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Play involves diverse meaning-making for young children and grandparents. This paper derives from a larger intergenerational family practices project conducted in Australia during 2021–2022 against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research team undertook intergenerational group interviews and filmed family play activities in addition to collecting videoclips and photos of young children’s play from six families. In this paper, vignettes…
Early childhood teachers’ understanding of executive functions and strategies employed to facilitate them
Introduction Adult-child interactions have a noteworthy influence over how executive functions develop. However, despite recognising the importance of executive functions in a child’s success, little research has been undertaken to explore the role of early childhood teachers in facilitating the development of executive functions in children through their teaching practice. The current study thus explored what understanding early childhood teache…
Parents’ Views on the Significance of Formal Preschool Teacher Education in Sweden
In Sweden, collaboration between families and preschools is strongly emphasized, yet little is known about how parents perceive preschool teachers’ education, qualifications, and professional skills. Through a socio-cultural lens, this article explores parents’ views on preschool teacher competence within the context of parent–teacher partnerships. It is guided by the central question: What skills, competencies, and qualifications do parents cons…
Australian multilingual early childhood educators’ use of languages in early childhood education settings
Dynamic and innovative pedagogical language experiences for young children can support development of children’s diverse linguistic knowledge. However, planning and implementing this pedagogy can be challenging for early childhood (EC) educators. This study uses a Bourdieusian theoretical lens to explore how three Australian multilingual EC educators use their linguistic capabilities, knowledge and skills in EC education settings. The article rep…
The care paradox
Teacher-led Self-regulation Programs in the Early Years as Cultural Adaptations
Teacher-led self-regulation (SR) interventions in the early years offer strong potential for sustainability, but their success depends on more than curriculum design. This paper focuses on the Creating Connections Australia feasibility study (known as ‘Brain Train’ by participants) to examine three interconnected dimensions shaping outcomes: teachers as interventionists, program design, and parental partnerships. The study was implemented through…
Exploring Time, Context, and Teacher Practices Associated with Executive Functions in Australian Preschool Settings
The pedagogical practices of early childhood teachers can help to develop executive functions (EFs) in children. However, which practices foster these functions, how much time early childhood teachers devote to supporting EFs, and when such interactions may occur require research attention. Using a quantitatively driven concurrent design, this study employed an exploratory adaptation of the Preschool-Setting Executive Function (PSEF) observationa…
Pedagogical Practices for Children Under Three Years
There is an unprecedented number of children in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings owing to the increase in maternal employment over the past 40 years and recognition of the educational value of ECEC experience. What the educator does impacts children’s learning, yet pedagogical approaches with children under three years are not clearly understood by educators. Legislation across Australia requires educators to be university-quali…
Gendered organisational impacts on women’s educational leadership aspirations in schools
Women dominate the teaching workforce; however, this numerical representation has not translated into equitable participation in principal leadership roles. Situated within gendered organisational structures, this study draws on role congruity theory to examine how organisational factors shape women’s aspirations to the principal position. Focusing on women currently occupying middle-level leadership roles in schools, the study investigates the s…
A Snapshot of Early Childhood Teachers’ Pay Across Australia / La coyuntura de los salarios de los docentes de primera infancia en Australia
Across Australia, early childhood (EC) teachers can work in a variety of settings in the prior-to-school sector (profit and not for profit). The EC teacher qualification must be recognised by the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority. The settings are governed by differing enterprise bargaining agreements (EBAs) that oversee salaries and conditions. The literature reveals that gender, socioeconomic status and diversity underp…
Gaps, compliance or variation in Australian early childhood teacher education
In Australia, there has been rapid growth in the demand for early childhood education and care programmes, leading to strong demand for early childhood teachers. To become an early childhood teacher, potential candidates must complete an approved early childhood teacher education programme. In this paper we explore the approved programmes in Australia ( N = 102) that provide early childhood teacher education (from January 2024). We look at the na…
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