Jessica Mantei
Biographic Data
| ID | 784836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Mantei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Mantei |
| SIGNATURE | MANTEI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3044-6906 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Examining teachers’ navigation of their professional identities in flexible learning spaces
Whilst teachers’ work is always complex, ongoing global change has generated new educational challenges related to perceptions about contemporary learners’ needs. Prominent in current discourse is the push for classrooms as flexible learning spaces. Professional Identity theory offers scope to understand the ways teachers respond to internal and external influences that shape and define their beliefs about these dynamic and socially constructed s…
Looking more closely at the Children’s Technology Play Space
This paper shares an account of our wonderings, happenings, and learnings emerging from encounters between children, iPads, digital microscopes and found natural materials (and bugs!) in a series of workshops at a children’s museum. Our intention is to build on and disrupt established theories about children’s museums by thinking differently and creatively about new ways of seeing, knowing, and understanding children’s literate practices in these…
Teacher produced video tours of classrooms
Australian literacy classrooms are shaped by an unprecedented time of national curriculum reform. Australian teachers follow a national English curriculum with the pressures of national standardised assessment, state interpretation (state-based syllabus and support documents) and localised system requirements influencing their pedagogical practices. It is timely to consider how teachers recontextualise these external pressures in their teaching o…
The pleasure and power of playful problem solving through storytelling
Purpose Being “literate” is well established as key to active civic participation, right from the earliest years of life. Young children’s natural curiosity and motivation to understand the world and their places within it through playful explorations offers rich opportunities for learning. Reported here are findings from a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics) project drawing on problem solving, inquiry and reflectio…
Exploring Young Children's Research Practices as They Engage as Research Partners
While gathering young children's insights and perspectives in any area of research is complex, there is increasing recognition of the need to elevate children's voices to build shared understandings about what matters, and in the case of this paper their literate practices. Commonly used methodologies often follow traditional research models where young children participate in research as defined by the adult researcher. However, this approach ca…
Pretend Play
Imaginative play is an important part of childhood that provides insight not only into a child’s ability to use language, but ultimately into their understandings of the world more broadly. Through play, children control the story as they shape an emerging narrative through words, gestures, movement, and use of play spaces. In this paper we deconstruct a single instance of imaginative play captured in the home corner of a preschool classroom. The…
Examining pedagogies for teaching phonics
Exploring Young Children's Research Practices as They Engage as Research Partners
While gathering young children's insights and perspectives in any area of research is complex, there is increasing recognition of the need to elevate children's voices to build shared understandings about what matters, and in the case of this paper their literate practices. Commonly used methodologies often follow traditional research models where young children participate in research as defined by the adult researcher. However, this approach ca…
Pretend Play
Imaginative play is an important part of childhood that provides insight not only into a child’s ability to use language, but ultimately into their understandings of the world more broadly. Through play, children control the story as they shape an emerging narrative through words, gestures, movement, and use of play spaces. In this paper we deconstruct a single instance of imaginative play captured in the home corner of a preschool classroom. The…
Examining pedagogies for teaching phonics
Looking more closely at the Children’s Technology Play Space
This paper shares an account of our wonderings, happenings, and learnings emerging from encounters between children, iPads, digital microscopes and found natural materials (and bugs!) in a series of workshops at a children’s museum. Our intention is to build on and disrupt established theories about children’s museums by thinking differently and creatively about new ways of seeing, knowing, and understanding children’s literate practices in these…
Teacher produced video tours of classrooms
Australian literacy classrooms are shaped by an unprecedented time of national curriculum reform. Australian teachers follow a national English curriculum with the pressures of national standardised assessment, state interpretation (state-based syllabus and support documents) and localised system requirements influencing their pedagogical practices. It is timely to consider how teachers recontextualise these external pressures in their teaching o…
The pleasure and power of playful problem solving through storytelling
Purpose Being “literate” is well established as key to active civic participation, right from the earliest years of life. Young children’s natural curiosity and motivation to understand the world and their places within it through playful explorations offers rich opportunities for learning. Reported here are findings from a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics) project drawing on problem solving, inquiry and reflectio…
Exploring Young Children's Research Practices as They Engage as Research Partners
While gathering young children's insights and perspectives in any area of research is complex, there is increasing recognition of the need to elevate children's voices to build shared understandings about what matters, and in the case of this paper their literate practices. Commonly used methodologies often follow traditional research models where young children participate in research as defined by the adult researcher. However, this approach ca…
Examining teachers’ navigation of their professional identities in flexible learning spaces
Whilst teachers’ work is always complex, ongoing global change has generated new educational challenges related to perceptions about contemporary learners’ needs. Prominent in current discourse is the push for classrooms as flexible learning spaces. Professional Identity theory offers scope to understand the ways teachers respond to internal and external influences that shape and define their beliefs about these dynamic and socially constructed s…
Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (2 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (2 works)