Megan Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8824-6854 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“I am rooted, but I flow”: A photovoice investigation into the (re)construction of professional identity among immigrant early childhood educators in Australia
Immigrant ECEC educators in Australia navigate unique personal, cultural, and institutional conditions as they (re)construct their professional identities in a new sociocultural context. This study employs Photovoice and two rounds of in-depth interviews with twelve immigrant ECEC educators to explore the factors that facilitate or impede this identity construction process. Using a “garden elements” metaphor developed through constructivist groun…
Assessing the impact of Covid-19 and policy reforms on early childhood education in Victoria, Australia: A time series and spatial analysis
World-wide, COVID-19 significantly impacted the education sector, and specifically the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector in Victoria, Australia. This caused declines in children’s enrolment due to restrictions that limited centre operations. After the COVID-19 pandemic, the Victorian government introduced the Best Start, Best Life reform (2024) to improve accessibility and equity in ECEC. The impact of the reform over three key per…
Sport, Play and Undoing Gender: Disrupting Masculinities via Narratives of Love and Care
Becoming a professional: Exploring vulnerabilities in an Australian birth-to-three-year-old professional experience
The Australian National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education defines professionalism as staff working together in respectful, ethical and reciprocal ways. However, limited research explores how preservice teachers (PSTs) navigate implicit knowledge and relational tensions during professional experience. Drawing on the cultural–historical concept of moral imagination, this study moves beyond decontextualised notions of expertise to exam…
The influence of family life on the pedagogical praxis of male teachers in early childhood education and care
There is increasing literature regarding the experiences of men working in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). Around the world, men are an under-represented group in ECEC settings. The article uses a cultural-historical wholeness approach to explore the interconnected dimensions of the personal and institutional perspectives of male ECEC teachers. The focus is on the participants’ personal experiences (family) and professional practices (…
Learning from a dilemma: The opportunities online teaching provided for teacher growth and development
The global 2020 COVID-19 pandemic impacted teaching and learning in all education institutions. The unprecedented and rapid shift from classroom based to fully online teaching raised unfamiliar dilemmas for educators, requiring immediate operational and pedagogical changes to meet previously unimagined demands. This study reports how an Australian school harnessed this experience and the teacher professional learning which ensued. Online focus gr…
Field experiences for pre-service teachers post-Covid-19: Structures required to support mental health
This study investigates a supplemental field experience taking place on a university campus in the summer of 2021. The program includes linguistically, culturally, and socioeconomically marginalized children performing below grade level in reading. Pre-service teachers (PSTs) work with the children for 4 weeks, focusing on science-based literacy instruction. The initial findings of this case study were that lesson planning, teacher dispositions, …
Working towards LGBTIQ-inclusive education: Perceptions of pre-service teachers’ comfort and emotional experience
This study explored Master of Teaching pre-service teachers’ (PSTs’) feelings of comfort and more broadly, their emotional experience as they prepare to work in classrooms with LGBTIQ students. Within the context of a broader mixed methods research project, PSTs were surveyed, and data were combined with a focus group (total participants n = 42). This paper reports on the qualitative data collected. Theoretically, Vygotsky’s cultural-historical a…
STEM professional learning: Supports and tensions with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabian teachers’ immersion experiences in Australian schools
A novel way to support change and development in a country’s education system is to send teachers abroad on a professional learning program, so that they become immersed in a different culture, language and education system. The focus of this study was to investigate the supports and tensions created during a professional learning and leadership development program, in which teachers from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) (n = 45) lived in Austra…
Inter-professional collaboration: Building relational understanding
Affective practice architectures of professional learning in international schools
This article focuses on practice architectures of international schools that create affective atmosphere for the professional learning and becoming of international-hire and local-hire teachers. We use the concept of precarious labour to explore relational tensions and their effects on the professional learning of teachers and school leaders. Empirical data are drawn from two case study schools located in two major countries that offer internatio…
Theory of Subjectivity from a Cultural-Historical Standpoint: González Rey’s Legacy
Moral imagination: An introduction to the special issue
Relational sensibilities and women's participation in computer science and information technology degrees: A cultural-historical approach
Relational sensibilities and women's participation in computer science and information technology degrees: A cultural-historical approach
Children’s Virtual Worlds and Friendships during the covid-19 Pandemic: Visual Technologies as a Panacea for Social Isolation
From March 2020 in Australia, the covid -19 pandemic resulted in regulations for social distancing, which meant that students were homeschooled. Social distancing exponentially increased the exposure of most young children to digital technology such as touchscreens (iPads) and digital flip cameras. This study focuses on two seven-year-old children who maintain their friendship during covid -19 by imaginary performances and playing virtual games. …
Innovative Uses of Visual Technologies in Initial Teacher Education: Changing Policy to Support Practice during covid-19
In Australia, schools and faculties of education are mandated to abide by a policy requiring preservice teachers ( pst s), to complete supervised professional placement ( pe ) in schools. The pe are drawn upon to meet the assessment criteria for degree completion. Two strategies are reported that supported individuals and education institutions to meet policy requirements while in lockdown. First, technology was used to overcome the challenge of …
Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia, Canada
Henson, L. H., N. Balkenhol, R. Gustas, M. Adams, J. Walkus, W. G. Housty, A. V. Stronen, J. Moody, C. Service, D. Reece, B. M. vonHoldt, I. McKechnie, B. F. Koop, and C. T. Darimont. 2021. Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Ecology and Society 26(3):7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12443-260307
Using critical incidents to investigate teacher preparation: A narrative inquiry
Fostering the development of the required knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed for teachers to be successful in the classroom is a complex task. Teacher candidates must develop the skills nee
As: A Discussion of How Institutions of Higher Education Respond to Incidents Related to Culture, Diversity, and Equity
In this article, we offer an analysis of how institutions of higher education have responded to occurrences related to racism in educational contexts and the larger society. Since the initial drafting of this manuscript, continued police brutality and racially motivated tragedies have prompted protests and uprising across the US and the world, specifically after the killings of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, Breona Taylor in Kentucky, and George Floyd…
Supporting Difficult Transitions: Children, Young People and Their Carers
The international contributors to Supporting Difficult Transitions discuss examples of transitions that are problematic for children, young people and their carers. Focusing on vulnerable children and young people, the transitions include: starting school, changing schools, starting work, entering a new culture or a culture that has been changed to focusing on vulnerable children and young people. The book will be useful to practitioners involved…
Moving toward: Using a social justice curriculum to impact teacher candidates
Purpose Public schools are spaces where capital-T transformation in teachers is needed (Guillory, 2012). To shift schools to places where all communities are valued, teacher education programs must create spaces where shifts in beliefs and practice can occur. This study aims to describe how the use of a social justice curriculum framework impacted teacher candidates by creating such a space. Design/methodology/approach This is an ethnographic stu…
Futurescaping: School choice of internationally mobile global middle class families temporarily residing in Malaysia
This paper explores internationally mobile global middle class families (GMCF) in terms of how they rationalise moving away from their home country, select schools and reimagine their young children’s futures in an international setting. Building on Appadurai’s notion of ‘the future as a cultural fact’ and Anagnost’s concept of ‘life-making in neoliberal times’ we analyse how the search for escaping the past is dialectically related to seeking be…
International Transitions: Generating Subjective Sense and Subjective Configuration in Relation to the Development of Identity
This article provides an in-depth examination of the emerging identity of a 5-year-old child during her international transition from Saudi Arabia to Malaysia. Observations of the child’s everyday life at home and school, alongside interviews with the child’s mother and teacher, enabled an understanding of the dynamic relation between past, current, and future events. The process of forming a new friendship foregrounded shared motives, emotions, …
Moving countries: Belongings as central for realizing the affective relation between international shifts and localized micro movements
Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia, Canada
Henson, L. H., N. Balkenhol, R. Gustas, M. Adams, J. Walkus, W. G. Housty, A. V. Stronen, J. Moody, C. Service, D. Reece, B. M. vonHoldt, I. McKechnie, B. F. Koop, and C. T. Darimont. 2021. Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Ecology and Society 26(3):7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12443-260307
Futurescaping: School choice of internationally mobile global middle class families temporarily residing in Malaysia
This paper explores internationally mobile global middle class families (GMCF) in terms of how they rationalise moving away from their home country, select schools and reimagine their young children’s futures in an international setting. Building on Appadurai’s notion of ‘the future as a cultural fact’ and Anagnost’s concept of ‘life-making in neoliberal times’ we analyse how the search for escaping the past is dialectically related to seeking be…
Moving toward: Using a social justice curriculum to impact teacher candidates
Purpose Public schools are spaces where capital-T transformation in teachers is needed (Guillory, 2012). To shift schools to places where all communities are valued, teacher education programs must create spaces where shifts in beliefs and practice can occur. This study aims to describe how the use of a social justice curriculum framework impacted teacher candidates by creating such a space. Design/methodology/approach This is an ethnographic stu…
Evaluation of cabinet-level world wide web homepages
West Virginia Uncovered
Book Review| April 01 2013 West Virginia Uncovered West Virginia Uncovered. Megan Adams Megan Adams Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Appalachian Studies (2013) 19 (1-2): 259–261. https://doi.org/10.2307/42635945 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Megan Adams; West Virginia Uncovered. Journal of Appalachian Studies 1 January 2013; 19 (1-2): 259–261.…
The Feminine Arm of the Law”: Police Wives, Policewomen, and Gender Politics in the Chicago Police Department, 1950 – 1984
In the late twentieth century, rank-and-file members of the Chicago police struggled to organize civil rights and labor protests against the city and police department. Police wives joined them in this effort and, because they were not subject to department rules or discipline, often served as proxies for the police during workplace disputes. Developing their own series of organizations, police wives staged protests and ran petition drives in sup…
Moving countries: Belongings as central for realizing the affective relation between international shifts and localized micro movements
Lenses and Lessons: Using three different research perspectives in early childhood education research
In contemporary Western research, collaboration is held in high esteem. This developing practice is chal¬lenging particularly for researchers who follow varying theoretical approaches. However although a challeng¬ing endeavour, when viewing the one data set with different lenses, there are various lessons that can be shared. A key aspect of this paper is involved researchers' different analytical perspectives in one data set to learn more about e…
International Transitions: Generating Subjective Sense and Subjective Configuration in Relation to the Development of Identity
This article provides an in-depth examination of the emerging identity of a 5-year-old child during her international transition from Saudi Arabia to Malaysia. Observations of the child’s everyday life at home and school, alongside interviews with the child’s mother and teacher, enabled an understanding of the dynamic relation between past, current, and future events. The process of forming a new friendship foregrounded shared motives, emotions, …
Supporting Difficult Transitions: Children, Young People and Their Carers
The international contributors to Supporting Difficult Transitions discuss examples of transitions that are problematic for children, young people and their carers. Focusing on vulnerable children and young people, the transitions include: starting school, changing schools, starting work, entering a new culture or a culture that has been changed to focusing on vulnerable children and young people. The book will be useful to practitioners involved…
Moving toward: Using a social justice curriculum to impact teacher candidates
Purpose Public schools are spaces where capital-T transformation in teachers is needed (Guillory, 2012). To shift schools to places where all communities are valued, teacher education programs must create spaces where shifts in beliefs and practice can occur. This study aims to describe how the use of a social justice curriculum framework impacted teacher candidates by creating such a space. Design/methodology/approach This is an ethnographic stu…
Futurescaping: School choice of internationally mobile global middle class families temporarily residing in Malaysia
This paper explores internationally mobile global middle class families (GMCF) in terms of how they rationalise moving away from their home country, select schools and reimagine their young children’s futures in an international setting. Building on Appadurai’s notion of ‘the future as a cultural fact’ and Anagnost’s concept of ‘life-making in neoliberal times’ we analyse how the search for escaping the past is dialectically related to seeking be…
Using critical incidents to investigate teacher preparation: A narrative inquiry
Fostering the development of the required knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed for teachers to be successful in the classroom is a complex task. Teacher candidates must develop the skills nee
As: A Discussion of How Institutions of Higher Education Respond to Incidents Related to Culture, Diversity, and Equity
In this article, we offer an analysis of how institutions of higher education have responded to occurrences related to racism in educational contexts and the larger society. Since the initial drafting of this manuscript, continued police brutality and racially motivated tragedies have prompted protests and uprising across the US and the world, specifically after the killings of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, Breona Taylor in Kentucky, and George Floyd…
Theory of Subjectivity from a Cultural-Historical Standpoint: González Rey’s Legacy
Moral imagination: An introduction to the special issue
Relational sensibilities and women's participation in computer science and information technology degrees: A cultural-historical approach
Relational sensibilities and women's participation in computer science and information technology degrees: A cultural-historical approach
Children’s Virtual Worlds and Friendships during the covid-19 Pandemic: Visual Technologies as a Panacea for Social Isolation
From March 2020 in Australia, the covid -19 pandemic resulted in regulations for social distancing, which meant that students were homeschooled. Social distancing exponentially increased the exposure of most young children to digital technology such as touchscreens (iPads) and digital flip cameras. This study focuses on two seven-year-old children who maintain their friendship during covid -19 by imaginary performances and playing virtual games. …
Innovative Uses of Visual Technologies in Initial Teacher Education: Changing Policy to Support Practice during covid-19
In Australia, schools and faculties of education are mandated to abide by a policy requiring preservice teachers ( pst s), to complete supervised professional placement ( pe ) in schools. The pe are drawn upon to meet the assessment criteria for degree completion. Two strategies are reported that supported individuals and education institutions to meet policy requirements while in lockdown. First, technology was used to overcome the challenge of …
Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia, Canada
Henson, L. H., N. Balkenhol, R. Gustas, M. Adams, J. Walkus, W. G. Housty, A. V. Stronen, J. Moody, C. Service, D. Reece, B. M. vonHoldt, I. McKechnie, B. F. Koop, and C. T. Darimont. 2021. Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Ecology and Society 26(3):7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12443-260307
Working towards LGBTIQ-inclusive education: Perceptions of pre-service teachers’ comfort and emotional experience
This study explored Master of Teaching pre-service teachers’ (PSTs’) feelings of comfort and more broadly, their emotional experience as they prepare to work in classrooms with LGBTIQ students. Within the context of a broader mixed methods research project, PSTs were surveyed, and data were combined with a focus group (total participants n = 42). This paper reports on the qualitative data collected. Theoretically, Vygotsky’s cultural-historical a…
STEM professional learning: Supports and tensions with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabian teachers’ immersion experiences in Australian schools
A novel way to support change and development in a country’s education system is to send teachers abroad on a professional learning program, so that they become immersed in a different culture, language and education system. The focus of this study was to investigate the supports and tensions created during a professional learning and leadership development program, in which teachers from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) (n = 45) lived in Austra…
Inter-professional collaboration: Building relational understanding
Affective practice architectures of professional learning in international schools
This article focuses on practice architectures of international schools that create affective atmosphere for the professional learning and becoming of international-hire and local-hire teachers. We use the concept of precarious labour to explore relational tensions and their effects on the professional learning of teachers and school leaders. Empirical data are drawn from two case study schools located in two major countries that offer internatio…
Field experiences for pre-service teachers post-Covid-19: Structures required to support mental health
This study investigates a supplemental field experience taking place on a university campus in the summer of 2021. The program includes linguistically, culturally, and socioeconomically marginalized children performing below grade level in reading. Pre-service teachers (PSTs) work with the children for 4 weeks, focusing on science-based literacy instruction. The initial findings of this case study were that lesson planning, teacher dispositions, …
Becoming a professional: Exploring vulnerabilities in an Australian birth-to-three-year-old professional experience
The Australian National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education defines professionalism as staff working together in respectful, ethical and reciprocal ways. However, limited research explores how preservice teachers (PSTs) navigate implicit knowledge and relational tensions during professional experience. Drawing on the cultural–historical concept of moral imagination, this study moves beyond decontextualised notions of expertise to exam…
The influence of family life on the pedagogical praxis of male teachers in early childhood education and care
There is increasing literature regarding the experiences of men working in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). Around the world, men are an under-represented group in ECEC settings. The article uses a cultural-historical wholeness approach to explore the interconnected dimensions of the personal and institutional perspectives of male ECEC teachers. The focus is on the participants’ personal experiences (family) and professional practices (…
Sociology (21 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Pedagogy (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (9 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Professional development (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)