Julie M Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4145077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie M Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie M |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1222-918X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Probing the gap between policy and practice in initial early childhood teacher education in australia in relation to education for sustainability
Unsustainable living is a critical challenge for all sectors of society. While many universities promote sustainability by supporting campus resource efficiency and sustainability-focused research, these approaches fail to harness the full power of higher education. We argue that Education for Sustainability (EfS) should be at the heart of higher education’s sustainability commitments. This study examined the anecdotal view that initial early chi…
Researching Early Childhood Education for Sustainability
Approaches to embedding sustainability in teacher education
Analysing conflicting approaches to dyslexia on a European project
This paper draws from our experiences of an EU Life Long Learning Programme Project: GATE Understanding Dyslexia Phenomena Between Pre-Primary And Primary (2009–2011) to discuss different conceptual positions concerning dyslexia. It compares medical notions of dyslexia with perspectives from childhood and disability studies to question the ways in which we encourage children, parents and professionals to understand dyslexia in educational setting…
The impact of professional development on early childhood educators’ confidence, understanding and knowledge of education for sustainability
In recent times, Australia has recognised and enacted a range of initiatives atservice, system and community levels that seek to embed sustainability into theearly childhood sector. This paper explores the impact of a professional development(PD) session that provided opportunities for early childhood educators tolearn and share ideas about the theory and practice of sustainability generallyand early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS)…
Problematizing the processes of participation in networks
Participation in networks, both as a concept and process, is widely supported in environmental education as a democratic and equitable pathway to individual and social change for sustainability. However, the processes of participation in networks are rarely problematized. Rather, it is assumed that we inherently know how to participate in networks. This assumption means that participation is seldom questioned. Underlying support for participation…
Ecological footprinting
Environmental and sustainability issues pose challenges for society. Although education is seen as being a contributor to addressing sustainability, teacher education has been slow to act in preparing future teachers to teach sustainability. Recent Australian curriculum documents nominate sustainability as one of three cross-curriculum priorities. In one Australian university course, an Ecological Footprint Calculator tool has been employed to ch…
An ecological footprint for an early learning centre
In this study, engineers and educators worked together to adapt and apply the ecological footprint (EF) methodology to an early learning centre in Brisbane, Australia. Results were analysed to determine how environmental impact can be reduced at the study site and more generally across early childhood settings. It was found that food, transport and energy consumption had the largest impact on the centre’s overall footprint. In transport and energ…
Revealing the research ‘hole’ of early childhood education for sustainability
In 2007, EER dedicated a special issue to Childhood and Environmental Education. This paper, however, makes a case for early childhood to also be in the discussions. Here, I am referring to early childhood as the before-school years, focusing on educational settings such as childcare centres and kindergartens. This sector is one of the research ‘holes’ that Reid & Scott (2006b) provoke the environmental education community to have the ‘courage to…
Educating for a healthy, sustainable world
Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth and the British government's Stern Review of the economics of climate change have provided heightened awareness of how humans are over-stretching the Earth's life support systems. The health of human populations and the health of global ecosystems are inextricably linked and the need for fundamental changes in how we live is becoming impossible to ignore. While not the complete answer, education must be a par…
Rethinking the architecture
The thesis as a bulky `tome' with a traditional structure —literature review, methodology, research design, findings and conclusions — is a concept under increasing challenge. Recently, I completed a doctoral action research project based on environmental education in a primary school. However, I found that trying to force the action research process into a linear writing structure was an unsatisfactory experience. After much anxiety and consider…
Some Thoughts on Contemporary Theories of Social Justice
The immediate difficulty one confronts when examining the idea of social justice is the fact that it does not have a single essential meaning-it is embedded within discourses that are historically constituted and that are sites of conflicting and divergent political endeavours. Thus, social justice does not refer to a single set of primary or basic goods, conceivable across all moral and material domains. Its social meaning, as Michael Walzer (19…
Where Are the Children's Experiences? Analysing Social and Cultural Exclusion in 'Special' and 'Mainstream' Schools
In this paper, we employ ethnographic data to illustrate that disabled children encounter discriminatory notions of 'normality' & 'difference' in both 'special' & 'mainstream' schools, & that these experiences relate to both the structural forces in schools & the everyday individual & cultural practices of adults & children. In contrast to much of the literature in the field, this paper examines the everyday life experiences of adults & disabled …
Eve's Remembrance
An Help Meet
Where Are the Children's Experiences? Analysing Social and Cultural Exclusion in 'Special' and 'Mainstream' Schools
In this paper, we employ ethnographic data to illustrate that disabled children encounter discriminatory notions of 'normality' & 'difference' in both 'special' & 'mainstream' schools, & that these experiences relate to both the structural forces in schools & the everyday individual & cultural practices of adults & children. In contrast to much of the literature in the field, this paper examines the everyday life experiences of adults & disabled …
Approaches to embedding sustainability in teacher education
Revealing the research ‘hole’ of early childhood education for sustainability
In 2007, EER dedicated a special issue to Childhood and Environmental Education. This paper, however, makes a case for early childhood to also be in the discussions. Here, I am referring to early childhood as the before-school years, focusing on educational settings such as childcare centres and kindergartens. This sector is one of the research ‘holes’ that Reid & Scott (2006b) provoke the environmental education community to have the ‘courage to…
Rethinking the architecture
The thesis as a bulky `tome' with a traditional structure —literature review, methodology, research design, findings and conclusions — is a concept under increasing challenge. Recently, I completed a doctoral action research project based on environmental education in a primary school. However, I found that trying to force the action research process into a linear writing structure was an unsatisfactory experience. After much anxiety and consider…
An ecological footprint for an early learning centre
In this study, engineers and educators worked together to adapt and apply the ecological footprint (EF) methodology to an early learning centre in Brisbane, Australia. Results were analysed to determine how environmental impact can be reduced at the study site and more generally across early childhood settings. It was found that food, transport and energy consumption had the largest impact on the centre’s overall footprint. In transport and energ…
The impact of professional development on early childhood educators’ confidence, understanding and knowledge of education for sustainability
In recent times, Australia has recognised and enacted a range of initiatives atservice, system and community levels that seek to embed sustainability into theearly childhood sector. This paper explores the impact of a professional development(PD) session that provided opportunities for early childhood educators tolearn and share ideas about the theory and practice of sustainability generallyand early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS)…
Problematizing the processes of participation in networks
Participation in networks, both as a concept and process, is widely supported in environmental education as a democratic and equitable pathway to individual and social change for sustainability. However, the processes of participation in networks are rarely problematized. Rather, it is assumed that we inherently know how to participate in networks. This assumption means that participation is seldom questioned. Underlying support for participation…
Ecological footprinting
Environmental and sustainability issues pose challenges for society. Although education is seen as being a contributor to addressing sustainability, teacher education has been slow to act in preparing future teachers to teach sustainability. Recent Australian curriculum documents nominate sustainability as one of three cross-curriculum priorities. In one Australian university course, an Ecological Footprint Calculator tool has been employed to ch…
Eve's Remembrance
An Help Meet
Where Are the Children's Experiences? Analysing Social and Cultural Exclusion in 'Special' and 'Mainstream' Schools
In this paper, we employ ethnographic data to illustrate that disabled children encounter discriminatory notions of 'normality' & 'difference' in both 'special' & 'mainstream' schools, & that these experiences relate to both the structural forces in schools & the everyday individual & cultural practices of adults & children. In contrast to much of the literature in the field, this paper examines the everyday life experiences of adults & disabled …
Some Thoughts on Contemporary Theories of Social Justice
The immediate difficulty one confronts when examining the idea of social justice is the fact that it does not have a single essential meaning-it is embedded within discourses that are historically constituted and that are sites of conflicting and divergent political endeavours. Thus, social justice does not refer to a single set of primary or basic goods, conceivable across all moral and material domains. Its social meaning, as Michael Walzer (19…
Educating for a healthy, sustainable world
Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth and the British government's Stern Review of the economics of climate change have provided heightened awareness of how humans are over-stretching the Earth's life support systems. The health of human populations and the health of global ecosystems are inextricably linked and the need for fundamental changes in how we live is becoming impossible to ignore. While not the complete answer, education must be a par…
Rethinking the architecture
The thesis as a bulky `tome' with a traditional structure —literature review, methodology, research design, findings and conclusions — is a concept under increasing challenge. Recently, I completed a doctoral action research project based on environmental education in a primary school. However, I found that trying to force the action research process into a linear writing structure was an unsatisfactory experience. After much anxiety and consider…
Revealing the research ‘hole’ of early childhood education for sustainability
In 2007, EER dedicated a special issue to Childhood and Environmental Education. This paper, however, makes a case for early childhood to also be in the discussions. Here, I am referring to early childhood as the before-school years, focusing on educational settings such as childcare centres and kindergartens. This sector is one of the research ‘holes’ that Reid & Scott (2006b) provoke the environmental education community to have the ‘courage to…
An ecological footprint for an early learning centre
In this study, engineers and educators worked together to adapt and apply the ecological footprint (EF) methodology to an early learning centre in Brisbane, Australia. Results were analysed to determine how environmental impact can be reduced at the study site and more generally across early childhood settings. It was found that food, transport and energy consumption had the largest impact on the centre’s overall footprint. In transport and energ…
Problematizing the processes of participation in networks
Participation in networks, both as a concept and process, is widely supported in environmental education as a democratic and equitable pathway to individual and social change for sustainability. However, the processes of participation in networks are rarely problematized. Rather, it is assumed that we inherently know how to participate in networks. This assumption means that participation is seldom questioned. Underlying support for participation…
Ecological footprinting
Environmental and sustainability issues pose challenges for society. Although education is seen as being a contributor to addressing sustainability, teacher education has been slow to act in preparing future teachers to teach sustainability. Recent Australian curriculum documents nominate sustainability as one of three cross-curriculum priorities. In one Australian university course, an Ecological Footprint Calculator tool has been employed to ch…
Analysing conflicting approaches to dyslexia on a European project
This paper draws from our experiences of an EU Life Long Learning Programme Project: GATE Understanding Dyslexia Phenomena Between Pre-Primary And Primary (2009–2011) to discuss different conceptual positions concerning dyslexia. It compares medical notions of dyslexia with perspectives from childhood and disability studies to question the ways in which we encourage children, parents and professionals to understand dyslexia in educational setting…
The impact of professional development on early childhood educators’ confidence, understanding and knowledge of education for sustainability
In recent times, Australia has recognised and enacted a range of initiatives atservice, system and community levels that seek to embed sustainability into theearly childhood sector. This paper explores the impact of a professional development(PD) session that provided opportunities for early childhood educators tolearn and share ideas about the theory and practice of sustainability generallyand early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS)…
Approaches to embedding sustainability in teacher education
Researching Early Childhood Education for Sustainability
Probing the gap between policy and practice in initial early childhood teacher education in australia in relation to education for sustainability
Unsustainable living is a critical challenge for all sectors of society. While many universities promote sustainability by supporting campus resource efficiency and sustainability-focused research, these approaches fail to harness the full power of higher education. We argue that Education for Sustainability (EfS) should be at the heart of higher education’s sustainability commitments. This study examined the anecdotal view that initial early chi…
Pedagogy (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (8 works) · Sustainability (8 works) · Early childhood education (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (5 works) · Environmental education (5 works) · Public relations (5 works)