Nicola Yelland
Biographic Data
| ID | 231778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicola Yelland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicola |
| FAMILY NAME | Yelland |
| SIGNATURE | YELLAND N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3096-5845 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Young children's Internet of Toys play at home
Contemporary children are growing up with Internet-connected playthings, often referred to as the Internet of Toys (IoToys), which can extend physical play into the virtual realm. Thus, it is important for parents, educators, and policymakers to understand the possible influences that the IoToys might bring to young children's learning and development. The present study examined 730 Chinese children's (5–8 years old) IoToys play at home from thre…
Becoming a Classroom Community
This article explores how children’s everyday lifeworlds shape participation in classroom communities and the development of scholarly habitus. Drawing on a qualitative study in one Melbourne primary school, fifty Year 4 children (aged 9–10) completed ‘learning dialogues’ across a school week, producing written and drawn reflections on what they looked forward to, how they felt about school, and why these experiences mattered. Reflexive thematic …
Global Studies of Childhood
Using Technologies to Spatialize STEM Learning by Co-Creating Symbols with Young Children
There has been an increasing number of calls to apply new technologies to learning contexts for STEM education. However, limited studies have explored the role of technology in bridging teachers and children to create STEM knowledge collaboratively. Therefore, early childhood teachers encounter challenges integrating digital technologies to support children’s STEM learning. The challenges include developing effective and innovative scaffolding st…
Thinking with
International studies have reported extensively on outdoor learning in bush (Australia) or forest settings (e.g., U.K. and Nordic countries). Yet, limited studies have investigated urbanized environments comprising community facilities and city settings. This study shares early childhood teachers’ exploration and engagement with outdoor community settings in Singapore. Innovative practices emerged in response to the community and context in urban…
A global childhoods research collective
We believe that researching global childhoods offers a comprehensive understanding of children’s lives, experiences, and challenges worldwide. We regard global childhoods as an interdisciplinary field which combines insights from humanities and social sciences (e.g. education, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, media studies, social work, law) and the sciences (e.g. health sciences, psychology, architecture, engineering, compu…
Belonging, student identity and school activity preferences
Students in East Asian locations often obtain high academic results in international high-stakes testing, but lower results on affective aspects of their schooling, such as sense of belonging. These findings indicate the need for more holistic research into children’s lifeworlds, including their experiences of school. In this article, we draw on a survey with 627 Year 4 students in three global cities in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Singapore, an…
Researching children’s lifeworlds through an innovative case study methodology
Purpose By integrating diverse data sources, we aim to provide a nuanced understanding of the children’s experiences, perspectives and social interactions. Design/methodology/approach This article describes the development and application of a novel mixed-method approach to researching children’s lifeworlds. The study employs a combination of qualitative interviews, observational techniques and quantitative measures to comprehensively explore the…
Conceptualising “the more-than-migrant child”
Purpose Using a feminist, post-structural and posthuman theoretical framing the paper argues for elevating the complexity of conceptions of migrant children’s engagements with and contributions to their own lives. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper responds to contemporary concerns with research involving migrant children and childhoods in an Australian context. With researchers and teachers’ attention being drawn to enhancing the …
Childhood, Learning & Everyday Life in Three Asia-Pacific Cities
Children’s Lifeworlds in a Global City
Exploring children's out-of-school lifeworlds
Purpose This article reflects on the adaption of Sarah Pink's video re-enactment methodology for exploring children's out-of-school lifeworlds. Design/methodology/approach Video re-enactments originate in the work of Sarah Pink who developed the methodology to study everyday routines, including activities associated with people's energy consumption at home. This article discusses the adaption of this methodology for exploring 9–10-year-old childr…
Scaffolding young children's computational thinking with teacher talk in a technology-mediated classroom
Children's Lifeworlds in a Global City
Childhood, Learning and Everyday Life in Three Asia-Pacific Cities
Children’s Lifeworlds in a Global City
Technology integration for young children during Covid‐19
To support young children's learning during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic, preschool educators in Hong Kong were required to teach with digital technologies. In this study, 1035 educators from 169 preschools reported their views and practices in an online survey, which we examined via multilevel mixed‐response analysis and thematic analysis . More than half of the respondents (53%) expected future online teaching to continue, and only …
Teachers as researchers
In this colloquium we share stories from two schools located in Western Australia that were inspired from the Reggio Emilia education project. The focus is on a view of children as capable citizens of the now. The examples in practice describe learning scenarios in which educators work as researchers using the ordinary moments of daily classroom life. It is in these ordinary moments where a pedagogy of listening is enacted
Towards learning dialogues as data
Purpose The purpose of this article is to contribute to the research methodology literature that arose out of the (new) sociology of childhood and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (1989) with regard to conducting ethical research with children rather than on children. In particular, this article reflects on the development of a method (learning dialogues). Design/methodology/approach Learning dialogues were designed to enable children…
Lifeworlds of nine- and ten-year-old children
There has been much discussion about the high performance of East Asian students in international high stakes testing, but little attention has been paid to their lifeworlds beyond school. In this article we explore findings from a survey of 627 Year 4 children (nine and ten years old) in three global cities (Hong Kong, Singapore, and Melbourne), focusing on their out-of-school activities as one aspect of their lifeworlds. The findings indicate t…
‘Home Means Everything to Me …’
The ongoing civil war in Syria has displaced many citizens who have fled the violence in order to seek sanctuary and asylum in Europe. As they seek refugee status, they are living in liminal spaces in transit countries, in the hope that they will be relocated on a permanent basis to a new country. In many instances, family members have gone before them and are already ‘settled’ in new countries. The remaining family make the perilous journey out …
Transformative pedagogies in early childhood education
Transformative technologies and play in the early years
Despite nearly three decades of the use of new technologies in education, schools seem to have remained impervious to significant change. Heritage curriculum and traditional pedagogies persist and, indeed, are dominant in school contexts, which seem to be embedded in the past, rather than preparing children for their future lives. Pockets of innovation illustrate that transformation is possible and comes with the added benefits of renewed student…
Childhoods in Burma/Myanmar and Tibet
Both Tibet and Burma/Myanmar have, for many years, remained closed to the scrutiny and gaze of the outside world. Connected geographically and deeply influenced by their Buddhist histories, they share many similarities, yet both are developing along vastly different trajectories. Unprecedented political and economic changes in Burma and increasing domination by Mainland China in Tibet are leading to uncertain futures, in particular, for the young…
‘We spend more time with the children than they do …’
Despite the ongoing global financial crisis, there is an increasing deployment of migrant workers across the globe, and in Hong Kong the foreign domestic worker occupies a ubiquitous presence in the lives of many families. Seven domestic workers from Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand were interviewed to gain insight into their role in providing education and care for children in Hong Kong. This exploratory study focuses on the educational …
A global childhoods research collective
We believe that researching global childhoods offers a comprehensive understanding of children’s lives, experiences, and challenges worldwide. We regard global childhoods as an interdisciplinary field which combines insights from humanities and social sciences (e.g. education, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, media studies, social work, law) and the sciences (e.g. health sciences, psychology, architecture, engineering, compu…
Conceptualising “the more-than-migrant child”
Purpose Using a feminist, post-structural and posthuman theoretical framing the paper argues for elevating the complexity of conceptions of migrant children’s engagements with and contributions to their own lives. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper responds to contemporary concerns with research involving migrant children and childhoods in an Australian context. With researchers and teachers’ attention being drawn to enhancing the …
Scaffolding young children's computational thinking with teacher talk in a technology-mediated classroom
Towards learning dialogues as data
Purpose The purpose of this article is to contribute to the research methodology literature that arose out of the (new) sociology of childhood and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (1989) with regard to conducting ethical research with children rather than on children. In particular, this article reflects on the development of a method (learning dialogues). Design/methodology/approach Learning dialogues were designed to enable children…
Transformative pedagogies in early childhood education
Transformative technologies and play in the early years
Despite nearly three decades of the use of new technologies in education, schools seem to have remained impervious to significant change. Heritage curriculum and traditional pedagogies persist and, indeed, are dominant in school contexts, which seem to be embedded in the past, rather than preparing children for their future lives. Pockets of innovation illustrate that transformation is possible and comes with the added benefits of renewed student…
Ethnography, Multiplicity and the Global Childhoods Project
This article offers a description and rationale of the Global Childhoods Project, initiated by a group of researchers from Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand and Australia. This transnational and interdisciplinary network embarked on a collaborative research endeavour concerned with investigating questions of childhoods and globalization in the Asia-Pacific region. A central premise of the group is that researching global childho…
Asian Childhoods
In this article, the authors discuss the findings of two surveys that were conducted with 10-year-old primary students and their parents in Hong Kong. They sought to gather empirical data about how the students spend their time in out-of-school contexts in order to interrogate the view that Asian students often spend much of their time studying, with little leisure time. The authors were concerned that there was an absence of empirical data on th…
A Case Study of Six Children Learning with Logo
This article describes an investigative pilot study that was carried out with six children (mean age 6 years and 8 months) who worked in one of three gender pairs (girl/girl, boy/boy and boy/girl) to solve tasks with the floor and screen versions of the Logo turtle. The study revealed that when young children work collaboratively in Logo tasks, there may be initial differences in performance, based on gender, whereby the performance of the girls …
Technological Communities of Learning
This project was designed to enhance the academic success and profiles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) through increased proficiency and awareness of computer technology. The program attempted to establish a community of practice with technology, that focused on teaching and mentoring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students by supporting their use of computer technology. Pr…
Journal editing and ethical research practice
This article offers perspectives from academics with recent journal editing experience on a range of ethical issues and dilemmas that regularly pose challenges for those in editorial roles. Each contributing author has provided commentary and reflection on a select topic that was identified in the research literature concerning academic publishing and journal editing. Topics discussed include the ethical responsibilities of working with internati…
Asian Childhoods
In this article, the authors discuss the findings of two surveys that were conducted with 10-year-old primary students and their parents in Hong Kong. They sought to gather empirical data about how the students spend their time in out-of-school contexts in order to interrogate the view that Asian students often spend much of their time studying, with little leisure time. The authors were concerned that there was an absence of empirical data on th…
Margaret Wong Ngai-Chun
‘We spend more time with the children than they do …’
Despite the ongoing global financial crisis, there is an increasing deployment of migrant workers across the globe, and in Hong Kong the foreign domestic worker occupies a ubiquitous presence in the lives of many families. Seven domestic workers from Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand were interviewed to gain insight into their role in providing education and care for children in Hong Kong. This exploratory study focuses on the educational …
Ethnography, Multiplicity and the Global Childhoods Project
This article offers a description and rationale of the Global Childhoods Project, initiated by a group of researchers from Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand and Australia. This transnational and interdisciplinary network embarked on a collaborative research endeavour concerned with investigating questions of childhoods and globalization in the Asia-Pacific region. A central premise of the group is that researching global childho…
Mirror, indicate, maneuver
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflect on what it means to be an academic in contemporary times and particularly how the value associated with being a researcher has changed in currency over time. Design/methodology/approach Based on Cavarerro's work about stories of the narrated self, in which revealing self narratives are viewed as a vehicle for uncovering (self) identities, this paper reveals the pitfalls associated with trying to cha…
Childhoods in Burma/Myanmar and Tibet
Both Tibet and Burma/Myanmar have, for many years, remained closed to the scrutiny and gaze of the outside world. Connected geographically and deeply influenced by their Buddhist histories, they share many similarities, yet both are developing along vastly different trajectories. Unprecedented political and economic changes in Burma and increasing domination by Mainland China in Tibet are leading to uncertain futures, in particular, for the young…
Transformative technologies and play in the early years
Despite nearly three decades of the use of new technologies in education, schools seem to have remained impervious to significant change. Heritage curriculum and traditional pedagogies persist and, indeed, are dominant in school contexts, which seem to be embedded in the past, rather than preparing children for their future lives. Pockets of innovation illustrate that transformation is possible and comes with the added benefits of renewed student…
Transformative pedagogies in early childhood education
‘Home Means Everything to Me …’
The ongoing civil war in Syria has displaced many citizens who have fled the violence in order to seek sanctuary and asylum in Europe. As they seek refugee status, they are living in liminal spaces in transit countries, in the hope that they will be relocated on a permanent basis to a new country. In many instances, family members have gone before them and are already ‘settled’ in new countries. The remaining family make the perilous journey out …
Lifeworlds of nine- and ten-year-old children
There has been much discussion about the high performance of East Asian students in international high stakes testing, but little attention has been paid to their lifeworlds beyond school. In this article we explore findings from a survey of 627 Year 4 children (nine and ten years old) in three global cities (Hong Kong, Singapore, and Melbourne), focusing on their out-of-school activities as one aspect of their lifeworlds. The findings indicate t…
Technology integration for young children during Covid‐19
To support young children's learning during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic, preschool educators in Hong Kong were required to teach with digital technologies. In this study, 1035 educators from 169 preschools reported their views and practices in an online survey, which we examined via multilevel mixed‐response analysis and thematic analysis . More than half of the respondents (53%) expected future online teaching to continue, and only …
Teachers as researchers
In this colloquium we share stories from two schools located in Western Australia that were inspired from the Reggio Emilia education project. The focus is on a view of children as capable citizens of the now. The examples in practice describe learning scenarios in which educators work as researchers using the ordinary moments of daily classroom life. It is in these ordinary moments where a pedagogy of listening is enacted
Towards learning dialogues as data
Purpose The purpose of this article is to contribute to the research methodology literature that arose out of the (new) sociology of childhood and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (1989) with regard to conducting ethical research with children rather than on children. In particular, this article reflects on the development of a method (learning dialogues). Design/methodology/approach Learning dialogues were designed to enable children…
Children’s Lifeworlds in a Global City
Childhood, Learning & Everyday Life in Three Asia-Pacific Cities
Children’s Lifeworlds in a Global City
Exploring children's out-of-school lifeworlds
Purpose This article reflects on the adaption of Sarah Pink's video re-enactment methodology for exploring children's out-of-school lifeworlds. Design/methodology/approach Video re-enactments originate in the work of Sarah Pink who developed the methodology to study everyday routines, including activities associated with people's energy consumption at home. This article discusses the adaption of this methodology for exploring 9–10-year-old childr…
Scaffolding young children's computational thinking with teacher talk in a technology-mediated classroom
Children's Lifeworlds in a Global City
Childhood, Learning and Everyday Life in Three Asia-Pacific Cities
Belonging, student identity and school activity preferences
Students in East Asian locations often obtain high academic results in international high-stakes testing, but lower results on affective aspects of their schooling, such as sense of belonging. These findings indicate the need for more holistic research into children’s lifeworlds, including their experiences of school. In this article, we draw on a survey with 627 Year 4 students in three global cities in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Singapore, an…
Researching children’s lifeworlds through an innovative case study methodology
Purpose By integrating diverse data sources, we aim to provide a nuanced understanding of the children’s experiences, perspectives and social interactions. Design/methodology/approach This article describes the development and application of a novel mixed-method approach to researching children’s lifeworlds. The study employs a combination of qualitative interviews, observational techniques and quantitative measures to comprehensively explore the…
Sociology (23 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Pedagogy (11 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (8 works) · Mathematics education (8 works) · Geography (6 works)