Ken Cliff
Biographic Data
| ID | 2017208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken Cliff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken |
| FAMILY NAME | Cliff |
| SIGNATURE | CLIFF K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-9875-9990 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Designing for Student Voice
This paper presents a conceptual–historical analysis of a long-standing university–school partnership between the University of Wollongong and Fairy Meadow Demonstration School in New South Wales, Australia, offering a design-oriented model for embedding student voice in initial teacher education. Drawing on over 2 decades of collaborative practice, the study foregrounds the development of a third space for work-integrated learning, where pre-ser…
The skills, knowledge, and attributes of the supervising teacher in initial teacher education
School placements are an integral component of a pre-service teacher’s experience, and the supervising teacher is potentially the first point of crossing from theory to practice. These important partners help pre-service teachers to navigate between their university study and career context. This paper presents a scoping review that reports on skills, knowledge, and attributes of supervising teachers. The review also outlines what is currently kn…
Perspective of Supervising Teachers and Tertiary Supervisors on Professional Learning for Professional Experience
To examine current support mechanisms for supervising teachers and tertiary supervisors in professional experience placements, we investigated the perceived effectiveness of and explored strategies for enhancing university–school collaboration through the lens of situated learning theory, operationalized via a Communities of Practice framework. Data were collected from 282 interview participants across multiple institutions. Findings reveal oppor…
Stakeholder alignment to government reform
High-quality Professional Experience (PEx) placements are central to the preparation of ‘classroom ready’ graduate teachers in Australia. However, there are frequent suggestions from the Australian Government that PEx is not as effective as it could be. Perennial PEx concerns raised in government reviews include: the need for strong partnerships between higher education providers and schools; the quality of ITE candidates and their suitability to…
‘Quality and consequence’
Performance indicators and other accountability measures are increasingly common in higher education internationally. Consistent with this trend, the Australian Federal Government’s Teacher Education Expert Panel (TEEP) recently recommended new reforms to strengthen the link between performance and funding of initial teacher education (ITE). Recommended reforms included (i) the measurement and publication of ITE performance on four categories of …
How educators in high-quality preschool services understand and support early self-regulation
Educator Beliefs Around Supporting Early Self-Regulation
The current study sought to investigate the extent to which early childhood educators’ confidence in knowledge, attitudes and self-efficacy for supporting early self-regulation predicted educator behavior and children’s self-regulation outcomes. Data from a diverse sample of 165 early childhood educators participating in a cluster Randomized Control Trial evaluation of a self-regulation intervention were utilized to evaluate the construct validit…
The preschool bathroom
In this paper we study the effects of power in a bathroom, which is a rarely analysed space in preschools, using empirical examples from a semi-ethnographic study conducted in New South Wales, Australia. We demonstrate that educators' understanding and practices mostly consider their own positioning in discourses and come short in accounting for children's practices in and expressed views on the bathroom. Educators also remain distant from childr…
Adolescents’ perception of the relationship between movement skills, physical activity and sport
Movement skill competence is important to organised youth physical activity participation, but it is unclear how adolescents view this relationship. The primary aim of this study was to explore adolescents’ perception of the relationship between movement skills, physical activity and sport, and whether their perceptions differed according to extent of participation in organised physical activities. We recruited 33 (17 male) Grade 11 and 12 studen…
A sociocultural perspective as a curriculum change in health and physical education
As a lens through which to read and understand a subject area and its curriculum content and issues, a sociocultural perspective is a recent and arguably significant change for the Health and Physical Education (HPE) Key Learning Area (KLA) in Australia. Its significance lies, first, in the fact that it seems to represent a notable departure from the predominantly medico-scientific, bio-physical and even psychological foundations of the learning …
Biopower and the "civilisation" of children's bodies in a preschool bathroom
Confusing and contradictory
We suggest that recent concerns about young people's excess body weight have generally been treated quite separately to longer standing concerns about young people (particularly, young women) and eating disorders. The few papers that have addressed this connection directly have focused on how practices motivated by the obesity discourse have had damaging consequences for the ways young women have come to understand and act on their bodies. The re…
Confusing and contradictory
We suggest that recent concerns about young people's excess body weight have generally been treated quite separately to longer standing concerns about young people (particularly, young women) and eating disorders. The few papers that have addressed this connection directly have focused on how practices motivated by the obesity discourse have had damaging consequences for the ways young women have come to understand and act on their bodies. The re…
A sociocultural perspective as a curriculum change in health and physical education
As a lens through which to read and understand a subject area and its curriculum content and issues, a sociocultural perspective is a recent and arguably significant change for the Health and Physical Education (HPE) Key Learning Area (KLA) in Australia. Its significance lies, first, in the fact that it seems to represent a notable departure from the predominantly medico-scientific, bio-physical and even psychological foundations of the learning …
Adolescents’ perception of the relationship between movement skills, physical activity and sport
Movement skill competence is important to organised youth physical activity participation, but it is unclear how adolescents view this relationship. The primary aim of this study was to explore adolescents’ perception of the relationship between movement skills, physical activity and sport, and whether their perceptions differed according to extent of participation in organised physical activities. We recruited 33 (17 male) Grade 11 and 12 studen…
The preschool bathroom
In this paper we study the effects of power in a bathroom, which is a rarely analysed space in preschools, using empirical examples from a semi-ethnographic study conducted in New South Wales, Australia. We demonstrate that educators' understanding and practices mostly consider their own positioning in discourses and come short in accounting for children's practices in and expressed views on the bathroom. Educators also remain distant from childr…
Confusing and contradictory
We suggest that recent concerns about young people's excess body weight have generally been treated quite separately to longer standing concerns about young people (particularly, young women) and eating disorders. The few papers that have addressed this connection directly have focused on how practices motivated by the obesity discourse have had damaging consequences for the ways young women have come to understand and act on their bodies. The re…
A sociocultural perspective as a curriculum change in health and physical education
As a lens through which to read and understand a subject area and its curriculum content and issues, a sociocultural perspective is a recent and arguably significant change for the Health and Physical Education (HPE) Key Learning Area (KLA) in Australia. Its significance lies, first, in the fact that it seems to represent a notable departure from the predominantly medico-scientific, bio-physical and even psychological foundations of the learning …
Biopower and the "civilisation" of children's bodies in a preschool bathroom
Adolescents’ perception of the relationship between movement skills, physical activity and sport
Movement skill competence is important to organised youth physical activity participation, but it is unclear how adolescents view this relationship. The primary aim of this study was to explore adolescents’ perception of the relationship between movement skills, physical activity and sport, and whether their perceptions differed according to extent of participation in organised physical activities. We recruited 33 (17 male) Grade 11 and 12 studen…
The preschool bathroom
In this paper we study the effects of power in a bathroom, which is a rarely analysed space in preschools, using empirical examples from a semi-ethnographic study conducted in New South Wales, Australia. We demonstrate that educators' understanding and practices mostly consider their own positioning in discourses and come short in accounting for children's practices in and expressed views on the bathroom. Educators also remain distant from childr…
Educator Beliefs Around Supporting Early Self-Regulation
The current study sought to investigate the extent to which early childhood educators’ confidence in knowledge, attitudes and self-efficacy for supporting early self-regulation predicted educator behavior and children’s self-regulation outcomes. Data from a diverse sample of 165 early childhood educators participating in a cluster Randomized Control Trial evaluation of a self-regulation intervention were utilized to evaluate the construct validit…
How educators in high-quality preschool services understand and support early self-regulation
Perspective of Supervising Teachers and Tertiary Supervisors on Professional Learning for Professional Experience
To examine current support mechanisms for supervising teachers and tertiary supervisors in professional experience placements, we investigated the perceived effectiveness of and explored strategies for enhancing university–school collaboration through the lens of situated learning theory, operationalized via a Communities of Practice framework. Data were collected from 282 interview participants across multiple institutions. Findings reveal oppor…
Stakeholder alignment to government reform
High-quality Professional Experience (PEx) placements are central to the preparation of ‘classroom ready’ graduate teachers in Australia. However, there are frequent suggestions from the Australian Government that PEx is not as effective as it could be. Perennial PEx concerns raised in government reviews include: the need for strong partnerships between higher education providers and schools; the quality of ITE candidates and their suitability to…
‘Quality and consequence’
Performance indicators and other accountability measures are increasingly common in higher education internationally. Consistent with this trend, the Australian Federal Government’s Teacher Education Expert Panel (TEEP) recently recommended new reforms to strengthen the link between performance and funding of initial teacher education (ITE). Recommended reforms included (i) the measurement and publication of ITE performance on four categories of …
Designing for Student Voice
This paper presents a conceptual–historical analysis of a long-standing university–school partnership between the University of Wollongong and Fairy Meadow Demonstration School in New South Wales, Australia, offering a design-oriented model for embedding student voice in initial teacher education. Drawing on over 2 decades of collaborative practice, the study foregrounds the development of a third space for work-integrated learning, where pre-ser…
The skills, knowledge, and attributes of the supervising teacher in initial teacher education
School placements are an integral component of a pre-service teacher’s experience, and the supervising teacher is potentially the first point of crossing from theory to practice. These important partners help pre-service teachers to navigate between their university study and career context. This paper presents a scoping review that reports on skills, knowledge, and attributes of supervising teachers. The review also outlines what is currently kn…
Political science (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion (3 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (3 works) · Professional development (3 works)