Linda Henderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Henderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Henderson |
| SIGNATURE | HENDERSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0533-6457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 2022
This review examines the landscape of Ghana's Basic Education (BE) Headteacher Leadership (HTL) literature, revealing essential insights from empirical studies conducted between 1994 and 2022. It originated from the lack of a systematic review summarizing evidence on HTL training, preparation, and practices implemented across the sector. However, research shows Ghana does not provide formal HTL training programs for BE Headteachers before recruit…
Enhancing iodine health awareness among adolescents: A study protocol for a multi-country intervention study in educational settings across the UK, Slovenia, Cyprus, Bangladesh, Germany and Pakistan
Mild-to-moderate iodine deficiency remains a public health challenge, particularly in Europe and in areas where access to iodine-rich foods or iodised salt is limited. Adolescents are a key target group for interventions, as early awareness can reduce the risk of iodine deficiency during future pregnancies. The EUthyroid2 project aims to raise iodine awareness among adolescents (aged 13–17y) to improve their iodine awareness and possibly iodine i…
How do Graduate Leaders in England discursively construct their leadership roles in early childhood education
The professionalisation of the workforce in early childhood education (ECE) is aligned with policy aspirations in England and internationally to raise the quality of provision, reduce inequalities in children's outomes, and improve standards. This article aims to consider how policy discourses of leadership are interpreted by Graduate Leaders, and the discursive conceptualisation and enactment of their roles in practice. The analysis adopts a ref…
Positioning theory as a framework for understanding the facilitation of professional development for educational leaders
The article addresses the problem of providing in-service education within government-led reform initiatives yet enhancing professionalism in the Early Childhood Education and Care sector. The study was conducted during policy-mandated reform in Australia to investigate effective ways to support educational leaders in centres rated as not meeting the national quality standard. Data were derived from a larger project designed as a formative interv…
Ghana's basic education Headteacher leadership: Critical discourse analysis of the Headteachers’ handbook
Exposure to insulating materials and risk of coronary artery diseases: A cross-sectional study
Background Although previous reports link exposure to insulating materials with an increased risk of mesothelioma and chronic respiratory diseases, studies evaluating their associations with the risk of coronary artery diseases (CAD) are lacking. Aims We aimed at evaluating the associations between exposure to insulating materials and the 10-year risk of CAD among insulators. Methods In this cross-sectional study, we recruited 643 adults (≥18 yea…
Covid-19 infodemic and health-related quality of life in patients with chronic respiratory diseases: A multicentre, observational study
Background: The explosion of information, misinformation and disinformation (the "infodemic") related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on digital and social media is reported to affect mental health and quality of life. However, reports assessing the COVID-19 infodemic on health-related quality of life (HRQL) in patients with chronic diseases are scarce. In this study, we investigated the associations between the infodemic and …
Educational leadership in early childhood education: Participant vulnerability and a ‘rule of care’
There is considerable literature describing the use of Change Laboratory as a simultaneous research and intervention methodology in workplace settings. However, there is limited literature describing Change Laboratory from the researcher-facilitator perspective. This paper examines the ethical dimensions of Change Laboratory from this perspective and specifically how a ‘rule of care’ became a conscious rule. The context is a series of Change Labo…
The potential of ‘leading identity’ as an analytic concept for understanding Educational Leadership development in early childhood education
This paper responds to pressing calls to better theorise the development of Educational Leadership in early childhood education. Specifically, we examine the usefulness of) the concept of leading identity for understanding shifts in Educational Leaders’ accounts of their leadership practices. Twenty Educational Leaders, recruited from Australian early childhood services, were interviewed before and after a developmental intervention using Change …
Policy rhetorics and responsibilization in the formation of early childhood Educational Leaders in Australia
This paper reports a rhetorical analysis of policy texts illustrating the emergence of the mandatory Educational Leader role in early childhood services in Australia. We argue that policy texts before 2012 constructed a ‘problem’ of workforce quality in early childhood education and offered a new leadership configuration as a policy solution. We identify and critically address how this social architecture was constructed and made persuasive throu…
Short-Term Acute Exposure to Wildfire Smoke and Lung Function among Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Officers
The increasing incidence of extreme wildfire is becoming a concern for public health. Although long-term exposure to wildfire smoke is associated with respiratory illnesses, reports on the association between short-term occupational exposure to wildfire smoke and lung function remain scarce. In this cross-sectional study, we analyzed data from 218 Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers (mean age: 38 ± 9 years) deployed at the Fort McMurray wildfi…
Problematising policies for workforce reform in early childhood education: A rhetorical analysis of England’s Early Years Teacher Status
This paper examines workforce reform in early childhood education in England, specifically the policy trajectory that led to implementation of the Early Years Teacher Status (EYTS) qualification in 2014. Taking a critical perspective on policy analysis, the paper uses rhetorical analysis to make sense of the how EYTS is understood within workforce reform. From an assemblage of salient policy documents, we report our critical analysis of two key t…
Children and the ethics of creativity: Rhythmic affectensities in early childhood education
BetweenContent and and and Expression:AffectensitiesThe book hopes only to engender lines of flight. [P]repare to dance ... responding and contributing to a rhythm that moves you-me-book with the
(Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe: Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts
Educational Leaders and the project of professionalisation in early childhood education in Australia
Non-Malignant Respiratory Illnesses in Association with Occupational Exposure to Asbestos and Other Insulating Materials: Findings from the Alberta Insulator Cohort
Many insulating materials are used in construction, although few have been reported to cause non-malignant respiratory illnesses. We aimed to investigate associations between exposures to insulating materials and non-malignant respiratory illnesses in insulators. In this cross-sectional study, 990 insulators (45 ± 14 years) were screened from 2011-2017 in Alberta. All participants underwent pulmonary function tests and chest radiography. Demograp…
An evaluation of a dog-assisted reading program to support student wellbeing in primary school
Positioning ourselves in our academic lives: Exploring Personal/Professional Identities, Voice and Agency
This paper provides a rationale for understanding personal/professional identities to support personal/professional learning and positioning in academe and higher education. It explains the importance of women writing and speaking out the stories of their lives (everyday and academic), having their voices heard and responded to, and using embodied knowledge to question and challenge workplace systems and structures of power and sexism and invisib…
Splitting the World Open: Writing Stories of Mourning and Loss
This article follows two women-academics engaging in a methodology of collaborative writing that holds each other in folds of friendship. By writing together that which has been hidden, new openings are being created where experiences of trauma, mourning, and forgetting are seeking out ways to re-member and heal. In this process, the authors are discovering ways of becoming-differently in their positioning as women-academics
But that wasn't enough: Exploring Affective Assemblages Within a Professional Relationship
This paper engages with the early childhood–school relationship. The relationship has a long-standing history of being defined by a series of divisions and separations. Research has identified the divisions and separations to be largely determined by differences around concepts of learning and pedagogy. Discursive analyses of these differences often result in a series of impasses. The aim of this paper is to move beyond these discursively determi…
Formative interventions in leadership development in early childhood education: The potential of double stimulation
This article critiques the usefulness of double stimulation, a key concept in Vygotskian analyses of human development, with leaders in early childhood services in Australia. A series of formative interventions was conducted to identify and address systemic tensions that were confounding leaders’ attempts to realise a central object of activity in their work: the development of their staff in order to enhance children’s learning. An example of do…
Entering a crack: An encounter with gossip
In this paper, I enter a crack to think otherwise about the concept “gossip”. Drawing on previous scholarship engaging with Deleuzian concepts to inform research methodologies, this paper builds on this body of work. Following Deleuze and Guattari, the paper undertakes a mapping of gossip, subsequent to an encounter with a crack. Thinking about gossip as something other than woman’s small talk, the paper follows a line opening up gossip onto an i…
Reflections from a Classroom Using the ICM
VanTassel-Baska’s (1995) Integrated Curriculum Model (ICM) was designed specifically for use with gifted and talented students. It has been designed around known characteristics of effective curriculum for gifted students and tested for its effectiveness with such learners. Recent curriculum theories in gifted education argue that all learners should be provided with curriculum experiences that allow learners to attain optimum levels of learning,…
Splitting the World Open: Writing Stories of Mourning and Loss
This article follows two women-academics engaging in a methodology of collaborative writing that holds each other in folds of friendship. By writing together that which has been hidden, new openings are being created where experiences of trauma, mourning, and forgetting are seeking out ways to re-member and heal. In this process, the authors are discovering ways of becoming-differently in their positioning as women-academics
Positioning ourselves in our academic lives: Exploring Personal/Professional Identities, Voice and Agency
This paper provides a rationale for understanding personal/professional identities to support personal/professional learning and positioning in academe and higher education. It explains the importance of women writing and speaking out the stories of their lives (everyday and academic), having their voices heard and responded to, and using embodied knowledge to question and challenge workplace systems and structures of power and sexism and invisib…
An evaluation of a dog-assisted reading program to support student wellbeing in primary school
But that wasn't enough: Exploring Affective Assemblages Within a Professional Relationship
This paper engages with the early childhood–school relationship. The relationship has a long-standing history of being defined by a series of divisions and separations. Research has identified the divisions and separations to be largely determined by differences around concepts of learning and pedagogy. Discursive analyses of these differences often result in a series of impasses. The aim of this paper is to move beyond these discursively determi…
Formative interventions in leadership development in early childhood education: The potential of double stimulation
This article critiques the usefulness of double stimulation, a key concept in Vygotskian analyses of human development, with leaders in early childhood services in Australia. A series of formative interventions was conducted to identify and address systemic tensions that were confounding leaders’ attempts to realise a central object of activity in their work: the development of their staff in order to enhance children’s learning. An example of do…
Policy rhetorics and responsibilization in the formation of early childhood Educational Leaders in Australia
This paper reports a rhetorical analysis of policy texts illustrating the emergence of the mandatory Educational Leader role in early childhood services in Australia. We argue that policy texts before 2012 constructed a ‘problem’ of workforce quality in early childhood education and offered a new leadership configuration as a policy solution. We identify and critically address how this social architecture was constructed and made persuasive throu…
Problematising policies for workforce reform in early childhood education: A rhetorical analysis of England’s Early Years Teacher Status
This paper examines workforce reform in early childhood education in England, specifically the policy trajectory that led to implementation of the Early Years Teacher Status (EYTS) qualification in 2014. Taking a critical perspective on policy analysis, the paper uses rhetorical analysis to make sense of the how EYTS is understood within workforce reform. From an assemblage of salient policy documents, we report our critical analysis of two key t…
Reflections from a Classroom Using the ICM
VanTassel-Baska’s (1995) Integrated Curriculum Model (ICM) was designed specifically for use with gifted and talented students. It has been designed around known characteristics of effective curriculum for gifted students and tested for its effectiveness with such learners. Recent curriculum theories in gifted education argue that all learners should be provided with curriculum experiences that allow learners to attain optimum levels of learning,…
Entering a crack: An encounter with gossip
In this paper, I enter a crack to think otherwise about the concept “gossip”. Drawing on previous scholarship engaging with Deleuzian concepts to inform research methodologies, this paper builds on this body of work. Following Deleuze and Guattari, the paper undertakes a mapping of gossip, subsequent to an encounter with a crack. Thinking about gossip as something other than woman’s small talk, the paper follows a line opening up gossip onto an i…
Formative interventions in leadership development in early childhood education: The potential of double stimulation
This article critiques the usefulness of double stimulation, a key concept in Vygotskian analyses of human development, with leaders in early childhood services in Australia. A series of formative interventions was conducted to identify and address systemic tensions that were confounding leaders’ attempts to realise a central object of activity in their work: the development of their staff in order to enhance children’s learning. An example of do…
But that wasn't enough: Exploring Affective Assemblages Within a Professional Relationship
This paper engages with the early childhood–school relationship. The relationship has a long-standing history of being defined by a series of divisions and separations. Research has identified the divisions and separations to be largely determined by differences around concepts of learning and pedagogy. Discursive analyses of these differences often result in a series of impasses. The aim of this paper is to move beyond these discursively determi…
Splitting the World Open: Writing Stories of Mourning and Loss
This article follows two women-academics engaging in a methodology of collaborative writing that holds each other in folds of friendship. By writing together that which has been hidden, new openings are being created where experiences of trauma, mourning, and forgetting are seeking out ways to re-member and heal. In this process, the authors are discovering ways of becoming-differently in their positioning as women-academics
Positioning ourselves in our academic lives: Exploring Personal/Professional Identities, Voice and Agency
This paper provides a rationale for understanding personal/professional identities to support personal/professional learning and positioning in academe and higher education. It explains the importance of women writing and speaking out the stories of their lives (everyday and academic), having their voices heard and responded to, and using embodied knowledge to question and challenge workplace systems and structures of power and sexism and invisib…
(Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe: Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts
Educational Leaders and the project of professionalisation in early childhood education in Australia
Non-Malignant Respiratory Illnesses in Association with Occupational Exposure to Asbestos and Other Insulating Materials: Findings from the Alberta Insulator Cohort
Many insulating materials are used in construction, although few have been reported to cause non-malignant respiratory illnesses. We aimed to investigate associations between exposures to insulating materials and non-malignant respiratory illnesses in insulators. In this cross-sectional study, 990 insulators (45 ± 14 years) were screened from 2011-2017 in Alberta. All participants underwent pulmonary function tests and chest radiography. Demograp…
An evaluation of a dog-assisted reading program to support student wellbeing in primary school
Short-Term Acute Exposure to Wildfire Smoke and Lung Function among Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Officers
The increasing incidence of extreme wildfire is becoming a concern for public health. Although long-term exposure to wildfire smoke is associated with respiratory illnesses, reports on the association between short-term occupational exposure to wildfire smoke and lung function remain scarce. In this cross-sectional study, we analyzed data from 218 Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers (mean age: 38 ± 9 years) deployed at the Fort McMurray wildfi…
Problematising policies for workforce reform in early childhood education: A rhetorical analysis of England’s Early Years Teacher Status
This paper examines workforce reform in early childhood education in England, specifically the policy trajectory that led to implementation of the Early Years Teacher Status (EYTS) qualification in 2014. Taking a critical perspective on policy analysis, the paper uses rhetorical analysis to make sense of the how EYTS is understood within workforce reform. From an assemblage of salient policy documents, we report our critical analysis of two key t…
Children and the ethics of creativity: Rhythmic affectensities in early childhood education
BetweenContent and and and Expression:AffectensitiesThe book hopes only to engender lines of flight. [P]repare to dance ... responding and contributing to a rhythm that moves you-me-book with the
The potential of ‘leading identity’ as an analytic concept for understanding Educational Leadership development in early childhood education
This paper responds to pressing calls to better theorise the development of Educational Leadership in early childhood education. Specifically, we examine the usefulness of) the concept of leading identity for understanding shifts in Educational Leaders’ accounts of their leadership practices. Twenty Educational Leaders, recruited from Australian early childhood services, were interviewed before and after a developmental intervention using Change …
Policy rhetorics and responsibilization in the formation of early childhood Educational Leaders in Australia
This paper reports a rhetorical analysis of policy texts illustrating the emergence of the mandatory Educational Leader role in early childhood services in Australia. We argue that policy texts before 2012 constructed a ‘problem’ of workforce quality in early childhood education and offered a new leadership configuration as a policy solution. We identify and critically address how this social architecture was constructed and made persuasive throu…
Exposure to insulating materials and risk of coronary artery diseases: A cross-sectional study
Background Although previous reports link exposure to insulating materials with an increased risk of mesothelioma and chronic respiratory diseases, studies evaluating their associations with the risk of coronary artery diseases (CAD) are lacking. Aims We aimed at evaluating the associations between exposure to insulating materials and the 10-year risk of CAD among insulators. Methods In this cross-sectional study, we recruited 643 adults (≥18 yea…
Covid-19 infodemic and health-related quality of life in patients with chronic respiratory diseases: A multicentre, observational study
Background: The explosion of information, misinformation and disinformation (the "infodemic") related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on digital and social media is reported to affect mental health and quality of life. However, reports assessing the COVID-19 infodemic on health-related quality of life (HRQL) in patients with chronic diseases are scarce. In this study, we investigated the associations between the infodemic and …
Educational leadership in early childhood education: Participant vulnerability and a ‘rule of care’
There is considerable literature describing the use of Change Laboratory as a simultaneous research and intervention methodology in workplace settings. However, there is limited literature describing Change Laboratory from the researcher-facilitator perspective. This paper examines the ethical dimensions of Change Laboratory from this perspective and specifically how a ‘rule of care’ became a conscious rule. The context is a series of Change Labo…
Ghana's basic education Headteacher leadership: Critical discourse analysis of the Headteachers’ handbook
How do Graduate Leaders in England discursively construct their leadership roles in early childhood education
The professionalisation of the workforce in early childhood education (ECE) is aligned with policy aspirations in England and internationally to raise the quality of provision, reduce inequalities in children's outomes, and improve standards. This article aims to consider how policy discourses of leadership are interpreted by Graduate Leaders, and the discursive conceptualisation and enactment of their roles in practice. The analysis adopts a ref…
Positioning theory as a framework for understanding the facilitation of professional development for educational leaders
The article addresses the problem of providing in-service education within government-led reform initiatives yet enhancing professionalism in the Early Childhood Education and Care sector. The study was conducted during policy-mandated reform in Australia to investigate effective ways to support educational leaders in centres rated as not meeting the national quality standard. Data were derived from a larger project designed as a formative interv…
Basic education headteacher leadership in Ghana: A review of empirical studies from 1994 to 2022
This review examines the landscape of Ghana's Basic Education (BE) Headteacher Leadership (HTL) literature, revealing essential insights from empirical studies conducted between 1994 and 2022. It originated from the lack of a systematic review summarizing evidence on HTL training, preparation, and practices implemented across the sector. However, research shows Ghana does not provide formal HTL training programs for BE Headteachers before recruit…
Enhancing iodine health awareness among adolescents: A study protocol for a multi-country intervention study in educational settings across the UK, Slovenia, Cyprus, Bangladesh, Germany and Pakistan
Mild-to-moderate iodine deficiency remains a public health challenge, particularly in Europe and in areas where access to iodine-rich foods or iodised salt is limited. Adolescents are a key target group for interventions, as early awareness can reduce the risk of iodine deficiency during future pregnancies. The EUthyroid2 project aims to raise iodine awareness among adolescents (aged 13–17y) to improve their iodine awareness and possibly iodine i…
Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Pedagogy (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (9 works) · Early childhood education (8 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (8 works) · Early childhood (7 works) · Medicine (7 works)