Tamara Cummings
Biographic Data
| ID | 4078540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamara Cummings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamara |
| FAMILY NAME | Cummings |
| SIGNATURE | CUMMINGS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8345-1146 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
All in a day’s work: Job demands and satisfaction in Australian early childhood education and care settings
Despite acknowledged demands and stresses associated with early childhood (EC) work, and high levels of attrition in the EC workforce, research often shows high ratings of job satisfaction. This article explores these discordant findings by applying Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) Model to explore educator-rated job satisfaction, stress, feeling rushed, and multiple demands using Time Use Diary (TUD) methodology in a sample of well-resourced EC cent…
Followers and following in early childhood education workplaces: A narrative review of the followership literature
Typically, leadership is identified as a key to constructing high-quality early childhood education services and creating provisions to promote children's successful outcomes. However, leadership does not occur in isolation. Organisational management scholars point out that success in organisations is mostly reliant on effective followers. Despite a long tradition of attention to the value of followership in organisational management literature, …
Developing the Wecare cross-national research alliance for investigating early childhood educators’ wellbeing
Purpose This paper describes the development of the WECARE cross-national research alliance for investigating early childhood educators’ wellbeing, and details the experiences of some of WECARE’s 17 members. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores and situates the WECARE team’s experiences within extant literature on cross-national and collaborative research groupings alongside a strongly practical focus. Findings The study’s findings incl…
The impact of work-related wellbeing and workplace culture and climate on intention to leave in the early childhood sector
One in three respondents reported an intention to leave the profession. • Emotional exhaustion, personal accomplishment, and age predict centre directors’ intention to leave. • Pay/benefits, emotional exhaustion, and qualification level predict educators’ intention to leave. • Findings may inform interventions to improve workforce stability. • Findings are timely given current government spotlight on the ECEC workforce. High-quality early childho…
A critique of the discursive landscape: Challenging the invisibility of early childhood educators’ well-being
Children’s well-being has received extensive research attention and has a central role in early childhood policy and curricular guidelines. However, the well-being of early childhood educators has received fragmentary research attention and is unacknowledged in policy and curricular documents. Given the seemingly self-evident links between educators’ well-being and positive experiences and outcomes for children, why is educators’ well-being invis…
The hidden complexity of early childhood educators’ work: The Exemplary Early Childhood Educators at Work study
A considerable body of research suggests that knowledgeable and skilled educators are key to the quality of early childhood services. However, the skills and knowledge of educators is subject to being underestimated and contested. In response, the Exemplary Early Childhood Educators at Work Study has been designed to bring to light the distinctive nature of the work of early childhood educators and its complexity. The study draws its sample from …
Inconvenient truths about early childhood education and care: Workers’ lives matter
In late 2019, we were offered the great privilege of taking up guest editorship on this special issue on the early childhood education and care (ECEC) workforce. The changing academic climate in Australia and personal circumstances had made it impossible for the originating editors of the special issue to continue. Our sincere thanks to Yarrow Andrew, Lara Corr, Karen Sinclair and Hani Yulindrasari, who,through this issue provide an invitation to…
Innovative Methods for Researching Leadership Emergence
There is a growing understanding, internationally, that effective leadership has an influence on the quality of early childhood education programs. The leadership research agenda has expanded accordingly but despite this expansion there is little empirical research on the emergence and development of leadership in early childhood education. The article focuses primarily on the methodological challenge of studying the phenomena of emerging and dev…
Early Childhood Educators’ Well-Being: An Updated Review of the Literature
Troubling Dissemination: Experimentations With the Salon as Conference Event
Salons became popular in Europe in 17th century as sites of philosophic and literary conversation. A group of female academics interested in Deleuzian theories experimented with the salon to challenge presentation and dissemination norms that hierarchize and centralize the human. For Deleuze and Guattari, assemblages are shifting and decentering, so how might assemblages of chairs, tables, bodies, lights, and space help to trouble thinking about …
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Troubling Dissemination: Experimentations With the Salon as Conference Event
Salons became popular in Europe in 17th century as sites of philosophic and literary conversation. A group of female academics interested in Deleuzian theories experimented with the salon to challenge presentation and dissemination norms that hierarchize and centralize the human. For Deleuze and Guattari, assemblages are shifting and decentering, so how might assemblages of chairs, tables, bodies, lights, and space help to trouble thinking about …
Early Childhood Educators’ Well-Being: An Updated Review of the Literature
A critique of the discursive landscape: Challenging the invisibility of early childhood educators’ well-being
Children’s well-being has received extensive research attention and has a central role in early childhood policy and curricular guidelines. However, the well-being of early childhood educators has received fragmentary research attention and is unacknowledged in policy and curricular documents. Given the seemingly self-evident links between educators’ well-being and positive experiences and outcomes for children, why is educators’ well-being invis…
The hidden complexity of early childhood educators’ work: The Exemplary Early Childhood Educators at Work study
A considerable body of research suggests that knowledgeable and skilled educators are key to the quality of early childhood services. However, the skills and knowledge of educators is subject to being underestimated and contested. In response, the Exemplary Early Childhood Educators at Work Study has been designed to bring to light the distinctive nature of the work of early childhood educators and its complexity. The study draws its sample from …
Inconvenient truths about early childhood education and care: Workers’ lives matter
In late 2019, we were offered the great privilege of taking up guest editorship on this special issue on the early childhood education and care (ECEC) workforce. The changing academic climate in Australia and personal circumstances had made it impossible for the originating editors of the special issue to continue. Our sincere thanks to Yarrow Andrew, Lara Corr, Karen Sinclair and Hani Yulindrasari, who,through this issue provide an invitation to…
Innovative Methods for Researching Leadership Emergence
There is a growing understanding, internationally, that effective leadership has an influence on the quality of early childhood education programs. The leadership research agenda has expanded accordingly but despite this expansion there is little empirical research on the emergence and development of leadership in early childhood education. The article focuses primarily on the methodological challenge of studying the phenomena of emerging and dev…
Followers and following in early childhood education workplaces: A narrative review of the followership literature
Typically, leadership is identified as a key to constructing high-quality early childhood education services and creating provisions to promote children's successful outcomes. However, leadership does not occur in isolation. Organisational management scholars point out that success in organisations is mostly reliant on effective followers. Despite a long tradition of attention to the value of followership in organisational management literature, …
Developing the Wecare cross-national research alliance for investigating early childhood educators’ wellbeing
Purpose This paper describes the development of the WECARE cross-national research alliance for investigating early childhood educators’ wellbeing, and details the experiences of some of WECARE’s 17 members. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores and situates the WECARE team’s experiences within extant literature on cross-national and collaborative research groupings alongside a strongly practical focus. Findings The study’s findings incl…
The impact of work-related wellbeing and workplace culture and climate on intention to leave in the early childhood sector
One in three respondents reported an intention to leave the profession. • Emotional exhaustion, personal accomplishment, and age predict centre directors’ intention to leave. • Pay/benefits, emotional exhaustion, and qualification level predict educators’ intention to leave. • Findings may inform interventions to improve workforce stability. • Findings are timely given current government spotlight on the ECEC workforce. High-quality early childho…
All in a day’s work: Job demands and satisfaction in Australian early childhood education and care settings
Despite acknowledged demands and stresses associated with early childhood (EC) work, and high levels of attrition in the EC workforce, research often shows high ratings of job satisfaction. This article explores these discordant findings by applying Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) Model to explore educator-rated job satisfaction, stress, feeling rushed, and multiple demands using Time Use Diary (TUD) methodology in a sample of well-resourced EC cent…
Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Early childhood (8 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (8 works) · Early childhood education (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Educational and Psychological Assessments (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)