M Theobald
Biographic Data
| ID | 22066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Theobald |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Theobald |
| SIGNATURE | THEOBALD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2101-6135 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Producing shareables
There are growing concerns that mothers’ use of smartphones and digital practices interfere with and disrupt social interaction, harming mother-infant relationships. Their digital practices, however, particularly the creation and sharing of “shareables” (photos, videos, voice notes), play an important role in maintaining family relationships and fulfilling relational obligations. This article presents a fine-grained analysis of two mothers’ self-…
Through Their Eyes
The quality of children’s early childhood education (ECE) experiences significantly impacts their long-term outcomes and wellbeing. While extensive research has explored quality from the perspectives of adult stakeholders, including educators and authorities, there remains a paucity of studies prioritizing the viewpoint of children, the main beneficiaries of ECE. This study sought to address this gap by investigating children’s preschool experien…
The Digital Childhood Industry
Many children lead lives that are heavily influenced by the digital world, whether that’s through digital products, services, and practices made for them, or made about them. For children and their families, their digital childhood is mediated across many dimensions, including play, learning, communication and the everyday routines of family life. In this panel, we examine some of the ways digital childhood is mediated through Industry. In partic…
‘Diplomatically bossy’
This article puts forward a discursive analysis of early childhood leadership in Australia, offering new ways of understanding the work of early childhood leaders and adding to the methodological tools used to consider work in early childhood education and care. While an emerging body of work recognises the complexities of early childhood leadership, there is little empirical work that identifies how early childhood leaders draw on discourses to …
Making connections with children
The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child reflects the role and status of children in society as being competent and capable participants on matters that affect them. The Convention is foundational in understanding children’s rights to participate in all aspects of everyday life, including in research in which children are participants. This article explores children’s rights to participate within a research study that investigated their pla…
Mothering in a digital age – a first-time mother’s account of using an infant tracking application
There is a prevalent belief that ‘good’ mothers should avoid using smartphones around their infants, as it is thought to harm infant development and the mother-infant relationship. Despite this belief, many mothers find smartphones beneficial for accessing online support and information during the postpartum period. The social role of ‘mother’ comes with a suite of cultural, social, and moral expectations on how to behave and care for children. W…
A New Approach for Investigating Children’s Participation Rights in Early Childhood Education
Research into children’s participation rights has largely focused on the challenges for early childhood educators to navigate children’s participation rights enactment. The aim of this article is to show how the enactments of children’s participation rights in an educational setting can be identified using a new approach, Listening to Voices in Interaction for Participation (LViIP). LViIP is based on Lundy’s (2007) conceptualisation of Article 12…
Young children as theory makers and co-creators of cultural practices
This paper argues that when young children are given an opportunity for their voice to be heard, they are competent communicators and social agents who can co-create cultural practices as theory makers. The paper draws on video recorded data from a small study that focussed on how young children (3–5 years) participated in an end-of-year cultural celebration in an early childhood education setting in Australia. The children organized a party, inv…
‘Let’s play crocodiles’
School playgrounds are spaces where children play with peers in organised games that have pre-existing rules and procedures for game play, and made-up games that are improvised in the moment. The ways children go about making up games have not been well documented and may be overlooked in situ due to the minimal supervision of school playgrounds. This study investigates how children mobilise and constrain their own game participation using improv…
Making talk work
Despite clear claims that higher education institutions prepare graduates for a world that is increasingly globalised, diverse and interconnected, how best to develop intercultural competence in places of learning is less clear. Drawing focus to a purpose-built intercultural programme, this paper explores the development of intercultural competence within a group of culturally diverse students at a regional Australian university. Eight students p…
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Scaffolding storytelling and participation with a bilingual child in a culturally and linguistically diverse preschool in Australia
Children frequently share stories as they play. Oral storytelling brings forth matters to do with language competence, and thus may present challenges for those with varying linguistic ability or those who are have a first language other than the dominant language of the setting. This article reports on a study of children's playground interaction in a culturally and linguistically diverse preschool in Brisbane, Australia. An extended sequence of…
Socializing children into pop culture
Investigating children’s pop cultures that rely on myth-making provide understandings about how children are active agents in the socialization into cultural and moral practices in their everyday lives. An annual visit to Santa Claus is important in children’s pop culture in the Western world, however, the social practices associated with the continuation of the myth are under-reported. Drawing on the related methodologies of ethnomethodology, co…
Combining analytical tools to inform practice in school-based professional experience
The Social Process of Building Knowledge in a Classroom
Book Review of: Conversation Analysis and Early Childhood Education: The Co-Production of Knowledge and Relationships By Amanda Bateman (2015) Surrey, England: Ashgate
How Talk and Interaction Unfold in a Digitally Enabled Preschool Classroom
The use of mobile digital devices, such as laptops and tablets, has implications for how teachers interact with young students within the institutional context of educational settings. This article examines language and participation in a digitally enabled preschool classroom as students engage with teachers and peers. Ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis are used to explicate video-recorded episodes of s…
Achieving competence
Early years researchers interested in storytelling have largely focused on the development of children's language and social skills within constructed story sessions. Less focus has been given to the interactional aspects of storytelling in children's everyday conversation and how the members themselves, the storytellers and story recipients, manage storytelling. An interactional view, using ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approache…
In pursuit of some appreciation
Group membership is central to social interaction. Within peer groups, social hierarchies and affiliations are matters to which members seriously attend (Corsaro 2014). Studies of peer groups highlight how status is achieved through oppositional actions. This paper examines the way in which competition and collaboration in a children’s peer group accomplishes status during the production and management of “second stories” (Sacks 1992). We present…
"Ideas as "possessitives
Video-stimulated accounts
Research in the early years places increasing importance on participatory methods to engage children. The playback of video-recording to stimulate conversation is a research method that enables children’s accounts to be heard and attends to a participatory view. During video-stimulated sessions, participants watch an extract of video-recording of a specific event in which they were involved, and then account for their participation in that event.…
"Ideas as "possessitives
Video-stimulated accounts
Research in the early years places increasing importance on participatory methods to engage children. The playback of video-recording to stimulate conversation is a research method that enables children’s accounts to be heard and attends to a participatory view. During video-stimulated sessions, participants watch an extract of video-recording of a specific event in which they were involved, and then account for their participation in that event.…
How Talk and Interaction Unfold in a Digitally Enabled Preschool Classroom
The use of mobile digital devices, such as laptops and tablets, has implications for how teachers interact with young students within the institutional context of educational settings. This article examines language and participation in a digitally enabled preschool classroom as students engage with teachers and peers. Ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis are used to explicate video-recorded episodes of s…
Scaffolding storytelling and participation with a bilingual child in a culturally and linguistically diverse preschool in Australia
Children frequently share stories as they play. Oral storytelling brings forth matters to do with language competence, and thus may present challenges for those with varying linguistic ability or those who are have a first language other than the dominant language of the setting. This article reports on a study of children's playground interaction in a culturally and linguistically diverse preschool in Brisbane, Australia. An extended sequence of…
Achieving competence
Early years researchers interested in storytelling have largely focused on the development of children's language and social skills within constructed story sessions. Less focus has been given to the interactional aspects of storytelling in children's everyday conversation and how the members themselves, the storytellers and story recipients, manage storytelling. An interactional view, using ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approache…
Making talk work
Despite clear claims that higher education institutions prepare graduates for a world that is increasingly globalised, diverse and interconnected, how best to develop intercultural competence in places of learning is less clear. Drawing focus to a purpose-built intercultural programme, this paper explores the development of intercultural competence within a group of culturally diverse students at a regional Australian university. Eight students p…
Socializing children into pop culture
Investigating children’s pop cultures that rely on myth-making provide understandings about how children are active agents in the socialization into cultural and moral practices in their everyday lives. An annual visit to Santa Claus is important in children’s pop culture in the Western world, however, the social practices associated with the continuation of the myth are under-reported. Drawing on the related methodologies of ethnomethodology, co…
Video-stimulated accounts
Research in the early years places increasing importance on participatory methods to engage children. The playback of video-recording to stimulate conversation is a research method that enables children’s accounts to be heard and attends to a participatory view. During video-stimulated sessions, participants watch an extract of video-recording of a specific event in which they were involved, and then account for their participation in that event.…
"Ideas as "possessitives
In pursuit of some appreciation
Group membership is central to social interaction. Within peer groups, social hierarchies and affiliations are matters to which members seriously attend (Corsaro 2014). Studies of peer groups highlight how status is achieved through oppositional actions. This paper examines the way in which competition and collaboration in a children’s peer group accomplishes status during the production and management of “second stories” (Sacks 1992). We present…
How Talk and Interaction Unfold in a Digitally Enabled Preschool Classroom
The use of mobile digital devices, such as laptops and tablets, has implications for how teachers interact with young students within the institutional context of educational settings. This article examines language and participation in a digitally enabled preschool classroom as students engage with teachers and peers. Ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis are used to explicate video-recorded episodes of s…
Achieving competence
Early years researchers interested in storytelling have largely focused on the development of children's language and social skills within constructed story sessions. Less focus has been given to the interactional aspects of storytelling in children's everyday conversation and how the members themselves, the storytellers and story recipients, manage storytelling. An interactional view, using ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approache…
Socializing children into pop culture
Investigating children’s pop cultures that rely on myth-making provide understandings about how children are active agents in the socialization into cultural and moral practices in their everyday lives. An annual visit to Santa Claus is important in children’s pop culture in the Western world, however, the social practices associated with the continuation of the myth are under-reported. Drawing on the related methodologies of ethnomethodology, co…
Combining analytical tools to inform practice in school-based professional experience
The Social Process of Building Knowledge in a Classroom
Book Review of: Conversation Analysis and Early Childhood Education: The Co-Production of Knowledge and Relationships By Amanda Bateman (2015) Surrey, England: Ashgate
Scaffolding storytelling and participation with a bilingual child in a culturally and linguistically diverse preschool in Australia
Children frequently share stories as they play. Oral storytelling brings forth matters to do with language competence, and thus may present challenges for those with varying linguistic ability or those who are have a first language other than the dominant language of the setting. This article reports on a study of children's playground interaction in a culturally and linguistically diverse preschool in Brisbane, Australia. An extended sequence of…
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Making talk work
Despite clear claims that higher education institutions prepare graduates for a world that is increasingly globalised, diverse and interconnected, how best to develop intercultural competence in places of learning is less clear. Drawing focus to a purpose-built intercultural programme, this paper explores the development of intercultural competence within a group of culturally diverse students at a regional Australian university. Eight students p…
Young children as theory makers and co-creators of cultural practices
This paper argues that when young children are given an opportunity for their voice to be heard, they are competent communicators and social agents who can co-create cultural practices as theory makers. The paper draws on video recorded data from a small study that focussed on how young children (3–5 years) participated in an end-of-year cultural celebration in an early childhood education setting in Australia. The children organized a party, inv…
‘Let’s play crocodiles’
School playgrounds are spaces where children play with peers in organised games that have pre-existing rules and procedures for game play, and made-up games that are improvised in the moment. The ways children go about making up games have not been well documented and may be overlooked in situ due to the minimal supervision of school playgrounds. This study investigates how children mobilise and constrain their own game participation using improv…
A New Approach for Investigating Children’s Participation Rights in Early Childhood Education
Research into children’s participation rights has largely focused on the challenges for early childhood educators to navigate children’s participation rights enactment. The aim of this article is to show how the enactments of children’s participation rights in an educational setting can be identified using a new approach, Listening to Voices in Interaction for Participation (LViIP). LViIP is based on Lundy’s (2007) conceptualisation of Article 12…
Through Their Eyes
The quality of children’s early childhood education (ECE) experiences significantly impacts their long-term outcomes and wellbeing. While extensive research has explored quality from the perspectives of adult stakeholders, including educators and authorities, there remains a paucity of studies prioritizing the viewpoint of children, the main beneficiaries of ECE. This study sought to address this gap by investigating children’s preschool experien…
The Digital Childhood Industry
Many children lead lives that are heavily influenced by the digital world, whether that’s through digital products, services, and practices made for them, or made about them. For children and their families, their digital childhood is mediated across many dimensions, including play, learning, communication and the everyday routines of family life. In this panel, we examine some of the ways digital childhood is mediated through Industry. In partic…
‘Diplomatically bossy’
This article puts forward a discursive analysis of early childhood leadership in Australia, offering new ways of understanding the work of early childhood leaders and adding to the methodological tools used to consider work in early childhood education and care. While an emerging body of work recognises the complexities of early childhood leadership, there is little empirical work that identifies how early childhood leaders draw on discourses to …
Making connections with children
The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child reflects the role and status of children in society as being competent and capable participants on matters that affect them. The Convention is foundational in understanding children’s rights to participate in all aspects of everyday life, including in research in which children are participants. This article explores children’s rights to participate within a research study that investigated their pla…
Mothering in a digital age – a first-time mother’s account of using an infant tracking application
There is a prevalent belief that ‘good’ mothers should avoid using smartphones around their infants, as it is thought to harm infant development and the mother-infant relationship. Despite this belief, many mothers find smartphones beneficial for accessing online support and information during the postpartum period. The social role of ‘mother’ comes with a suite of cultural, social, and moral expectations on how to behave and care for children. W…
Producing shareables
There are growing concerns that mothers’ use of smartphones and digital practices interfere with and disrupt social interaction, harming mother-infant relationships. Their digital practices, however, particularly the creation and sharing of “shareables” (photos, videos, voice notes), play an important role in maintaining family relationships and fulfilling relational obligations. This article presents a fine-grained analysis of two mothers’ self-…
Psychology (14 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Conversation (11 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Conversation analysis (9 works) · Communication (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Ethnomethodology (7 works)