A Keary
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 18260 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A Keary |
| PRENOMES | A |
| SOBRENOME | Keary |
| ASSINATURA | KEARY A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4967-5397 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
An English language teacher educator's feedback literacy journey
Dialogic feedback practices are widely recognised as crucial in initial teacher education, yet the knowledge required to implement them — what the authors term ‘teacher educator feedback literacy’ — remains underconceptualised. Collaborative dimensions of this feedback literacy and the influence of context on its development are particularly understudied, a gap especially significant for South-East Asia, where dialogic feedback discourse is only …
Refugee-background students’ biographical perspectives as the enablers of praxis in Australia’s EAL/D classrooms
This scoping review explored refugee-background students’ biographical perspectives, including their lived histories, experiences, and linguistic, cultural, and social capital, as enabling praxis in Australia’s English as an Additional Language/Dialect EAL/D classrooms. Guided by Arksey and O’Malley’s framework and PRISMA-ScR guidelines, 25 studies (010-2025) were systematically reviewed. Grounded in a praxis-oriented and intra-categorical unders…
A Snapshot of Early Childhood Teachers’ Pay Across Australia / La coyuntura de los salarios de los docentes de primera infancia en Australia
Across Australia, early childhood (EC) teachers can work in a variety of settings in the prior-to-school sector (profit and not for profit). The EC teacher qualification must be recognised by the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority. The settings are governed by differing enterprise bargaining agreements (EBAs) that oversee salaries and conditions. The literature reveals that gender, socioeconomic status and diversity underp…
Refugee education in Australia
Investment in English language learning by adult Iranians
This paper investigates how Iranian learners invest in English language education amid various cultural and societal influences. Recently, Iranian authorities have expressed concern about the impact of English on society and culture. The first author interviewed eight adult learners in Iran to explore their perceptions of learners’ investment in English language learning, drawing on Darvin and Norton’s (2016) model. The findings reveal a complex …
Australian multilingual early childhood educators’ use of languages in early childhood education settings
Dynamic and innovative pedagogical language experiences for young children can support development of children’s diverse linguistic knowledge. However, planning and implementing this pedagogy can be challenging for early childhood (EC) educators. This study uses a Bourdieusian theoretical lens to explore how three Australian multilingual EC educators use their linguistic capabilities, knowledge and skills in EC education settings. The article rep…
Supporting students with English as an additional language during emergency remote teaching
Students with English as an additional language (EAL) comprise approximately a third of the government school population in Australia’s second most populous state of Victoria. While the broad impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on teachers and students has been the focus of recent studies, there is a lack of information on how EAL educators adapted to meet the needs of this diverse cohort of students during periods of emergency remote teaching (ERT).…
Religious women
The role of nuns in the Catholic church as carers and caregivers has been given scant attention. This paper narrates a historical contextualised tale of an ethic of care, caregiving and caring. Interview data were drawn from a qualitative study of four Catholic nuns. Interviews were informal and conversational, with participants asked to reflect on how belonging to a religious order shaped their lives. The data was analysed for patterns that made…
Rural South Sulawesi mothers' emotional capital
Understanding the impact of COVID-19 and the resulting disruptions from the shift to emergency remote learning remains an important concern, particularly for those communities where geographical, economic and social factors exacerbated the challenges. This study explores the experiences of mothers living in a rural area of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, as they encountered new challenges associated with supporting their primary school children’s educ…
Photographs of Play
Research affirms positive results between children’s play and academic success. While play is heavily featured within the early childhood curriculum, limited studies have explored how play is actually implemented within early years settings. The aim of this study was to enhance children’s play and learning by using photographs to explore play-related pedagogical practices of early childhood teachers in Australia over time. Using visual narrative …
Young Children’s Play and the Role of Grandparents as Play Partners during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Play involves diverse meaning-making for young children and grandparents. This paper derives from a larger intergenerational family practices project conducted in Australia during 2021–2022 against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research team undertook intergenerational group interviews and filmed family play activities in addition to collecting videoclips and photos of young children’s play from six families. In this paper, vignettes…
Professional experience of Chinese international pre-service teachers in Australia’s early childhood education
International pre-service teachers (PSTs) can struggle to engage with Professional Experience (PE) communities in an Australian Early Childhood Education context. This qualitative case study examines three first-year Chinese international PSTs’ PE in different early childhood settings in Australia. Framed by Bourdieu’s analytical concepts, this paper explores Chinese PSTs’ culturally shaped understanding of PE and mentoring expectations, showing …
Bringing plurilingual strategies into linguistically diverse classrooms
It has been widely recognised that plurilingual pedagogy offers many benefits both for language learning and learning in general. However, in contexts where the linguistic profile of students is diverse, it can still be challenging for teachers to view working with the language resources of their students as feasible. In this article, we discuss how engaging students in digital multimodal composing (DMC) can support teachers’ uptake of plurilingu…
Early childhood educators’ viewpoints on linguistic and cultural diversity
Language and linguistic diversity play a key role in disparities in academic achievement. With around 25 % of preschool children in Australia communicating in a language other than English at home, developing a greater understanding of early childhood educators’ viewpoints towards, and engagement with, children's linguistic and cultural resources is vital. This research project asks how educators in early childhood settings view children's lingui…
Rohingya students’ voices on the experience of inclusion/exclusion in the non-formal schooling
Educators’ Construction of a Sense of Belonging in Ecec
The involvement of refugee families in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a complex issue in many countries. In this paper, we explore how early childhood (EC) educators construct refugee families’ sense of belonging in two metropolitan and one regional EC setting in Victoria, Australia. We undertook a multiple case study, analyzing interview data. We implemented Bourdieu’s notion of cultural capital and identity capital, drawing on the…
Professionalism and everyday practices in early childhood education and care
Notions of professionalism are central to how EC teachers enact practice. We explore how a group of Singaporean early childhood education and care (ECEC) pre-service teachers (PSTs) understand the notion of professionalism in this paper, drawing on their identity text work. The analysis is grounded by de Certeau’s thinking on the practice of everyday life, examining ideas about space, strategies and tactics. Findings show that PSTs’ notions of pr…
Home language literacy practices
It is well-established in both scholarship and policy documents that students’ home language practices can be leveraged as a key resource for their learning. However, it can be challenging for teachers to embed students’ language resources in class activities in ways that link to wider learning objectives. We report how the inclusion of home language literacy practices can both enhance English language learning and promote multiliteracies. Data a…
A visual analysis intergenerational play histories and practices
Exploring play and leisure histories and practices in a visual analysis of family photos opens ways to scrutinize intergenerational relationships. In this paper, we explore ideas about interactions between the old and young, and within and across generations through a visual analysis of play and leisure activities. By looking back through five generations of family photos of one Australian family, we examine play and leisure practices of older ge…
The Role of Membership Viewpoints in Shaping Language Teacher Associations
The complexity inherent in the TESOL field can present challenges for Language Teacher Associations (LTAs) in undertaking internal‐facing roles such as professional learning including networking, conferences and publications, as well as external‐facing roles such as advocacy work with stakeholders, and curriculum reform, among other issues (e.g., Elsheikh & Effiong, 2018b; Lamb, 2012; Paran, 2016). LTAs must be cognizant of and responsive to chan…
Literacy, Cross-Cultural Interaction, and Colonialism
Multi-vocal voices of refugees
The inflow of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar experiencing trauma and torture is a major global issue. This article explores relationships with local communities as they are represented in the multi-vocal voices of Rohingya refugees. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with a group of Rohingya refugees based in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh along with observations of camp life. Twenty participants were interviewed. The observati…
Sedimented professional identities
A shifting notion in the field of early childhood education (ECE) is what it is to be a ‘professional’. This paper examines third-year early childhood undergraduate pre-service teachers (PSTs) developing understandings of notions of ‘professionalism’ as expressed through identity texts. PSTs develop knowledge of standards, frameworks and policies that impact on their professional work and undertake a review of legislative requirements. As a count…
I’m learning how to do it’
The role of early childhood education and care (ECEC) is to support the learning and development of children in collaboration with families. The notion of inclusion in ECEC provides children with a sense of agency in becoming a learner able to participate fully and actively in their community. This paper illustrates how ECEC assessment approaches risk labelling young children in ‘deficit’ terms. The paper through a case study critically reflects …
Non-linear Transitions
Labour markets are characterized by uncertainty and youth transitions by change. This longitudinal study of three generations of Australian women from nine families suggests something more nuanced, featuring continuities and discontinuities threaded throughout the lives of daughters, mothers, grandmothers and aunts interviewed over three decades. Discussion focuses on the most recent generation of interviewees, following some of the threads of th…
Christianity, colonialism, and cross-cultural translation
The essay focuses primarily on Lancelot Threlkeld's (a missionary with the London Missionary Society) linguistic works to throw light on the cross-cultural translation of Christian and indigenous religious concepts during the early years of colonization. It aims to reconstruct a cross-cultural conversation about sacred matters between Lancelot Threlkeld and Biraban, a leading man of the Awabakal of eastern Australia
I’m learning how to do it’
The role of early childhood education and care (ECEC) is to support the learning and development of children in collaboration with families. The notion of inclusion in ECEC provides children with a sense of agency in becoming a learner able to participate fully and actively in their community. This paper illustrates how ECEC assessment approaches risk labelling young children in ‘deficit’ terms. The paper through a case study critically reflects …
Non-linear Transitions
Labour markets are characterized by uncertainty and youth transitions by change. This longitudinal study of three generations of Australian women from nine families suggests something more nuanced, featuring continuities and discontinuities threaded throughout the lives of daughters, mothers, grandmothers and aunts interviewed over three decades. Discussion focuses on the most recent generation of interviewees, following some of the threads of th…
School principals speaking back to widening participation policies in higher education
This paper examines school principal responses to the policy discourse of widening participation in higher education. As a critical analysis of how policy is produced, read and responded to by principals [Bacchi, C., 2009. Analysing policy: what's the problem represented to be? New York: Pearson], the paper questions the assumptions underpinning policies aiming to widen participation of young people in schools where families have traditionally no…
Catholic girls
n\t\t\t\t\tThis paper examines Catholic girlhood, womanhood and the mother–daughter relationship, and its socio-historical construction within a range of disparate discourses. The aim of the paper is to deconstruct dominant patriarchal constructions and images of femininity, particularly those embedded within the doctrine of Catholicism. Moreover, the paper intends to reveal traces of maternal connections and relations which are often hidden by m…
Palm Island Women Speak Out
Education is a vital political concern to Aboriginal and Islander women. Despite common assumptions that Aboriginal and Islander families do not hold high expectations for their children's education, Aboriginal and Islander families do value education for their children and hold high educational aspirations for them. This general perception of Aboriginal and Islander parents' disinterest has to do with the mismatch between the education provided …
Retelling the History of the Settlement of Providence
N 1886 the good citizens of Providence, Rhode Island, celebrated the 250th anniversary of their town's settlement on Narragansett Bay. As was the custom of their time, they commissioned a history, a large and lavish volume, by a local author. The title of Welcome Greene's effort, The Providence Plantations for Two Hundred and Fifty Years: A Historical Review of the Foundation, Rise, and Progress of the City of Providence, announces its scope. Wha…
In/exclusion
The inclusion debate has raised issues in relation to ascertainment, the labelling of ‘special’ needs, the distribution of human and physical resources and the placement of students on individualized education programmes. This paper contends that the inclusion debate, however, has not addressed critical issues pertaining to the politics of representation and difference. That is, the normative struggles over rights and social justice for the disab…
Dancing with Strangers
Christianity, colonialism, and cross-cultural translation
The essay focuses primarily on Lancelot Threlkeld's (a missionary with the London Missionary Society) linguistic works to throw light on the cross-cultural translation of Christian and indigenous religious concepts during the early years of colonization. It aims to reconstruct a cross-cultural conversation about sacred matters between Lancelot Threlkeld and Biraban, a leading man of the Awabakal of eastern Australia
Catholic girls
n\t\t\t\t\tThis paper examines Catholic girlhood, womanhood and the mother–daughter relationship, and its socio-historical construction within a range of disparate discourses. The aim of the paper is to deconstruct dominant patriarchal constructions and images of femininity, particularly those embedded within the doctrine of Catholicism. Moreover, the paper intends to reveal traces of maternal connections and relations which are often hidden by m…
White Mother to a Dark Race
Reviewed by: White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler colonialism, maternalism, and the removal of Indigenous children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940 Anne Keary White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler colonialism, maternalism, and the removal of Indigenous children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940 Margaret Jacobs. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. Margaret Jacobs’ history of Indigenous child removal in la…
De/Composing Gran's Photo Album
This is the story of my maternal grandmother's photo album as it is seen through the feminist psychoanalytic eyes of her granddaughter. The photos take on particular meanings as my mother and I ponder over them. The photo album, set against the backdrop of the early twentieth century, tells tales of frivolity and young romance, friendship and daughterhood, extended families and holidays. What is most significant, however, is the way in which the …
Feminist Genealogical Methodologies
This paper describes the multi-methodological approach employed in a partial, situated, contingent and interpretive feminist political analysis of Catholic mothers and daughters. The study draws on a number of sources including transcripts of mother-daughter interviews, autobiographical anecdotes, photographs, music, icons of Catholicism and poetry. It is argued in this paper that a feminist multi-methodological approach is valuable to feminist r…
Catholic mothers and daughters
In this paper, conversations between a group of white, middle class, adult Australian mothers and daughters are examined to disclose the symbolic dimensions that mark girlhood, womanhood, motherhood and the mother–daughter dyad within Catholic discourse. In their conversations, women unravel and produce understandings of themselves as women, and as mothers and daughters that operate at both a symbolic and real material level. The women in their i…
Catholic Mothers and Daughters
The socio-historical events and libertarian cultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s shaped the Catholic mother-daughter relationship for the women in this feminist genealogical study. This study is based on interviews with 36 Anglo-Australian Catholic women – 13 sets of mothers and daughters – as well as dialogue between my mother and myself about family photographs. Women’s stories of secondary school days tell of the formation of lady-like id…
Familiar friends’
The main theoretical and practical focus of this paper is on the Catholic mother–daughter relationship, and how connections between women shape, and are shaped in, and through this nexus. It is contended that it is imperative that we begin to understand different representations of connections among, and between women, including that of mothers and daughters, as they compose part of the changing yet continual dialect of our (religious) feminine i…
School principals speaking back to widening participation policies in higher education
This paper examines school principal responses to the policy discourse of widening participation in higher education. As a critical analysis of how policy is produced, read and responded to by principals [Bacchi, C., 2009. Analysing policy: what's the problem represented to be? New York: Pearson], the paper questions the assumptions underpinning policies aiming to widen participation of young people in schools where families have traditionally no…
Non-linear Transitions
Labour markets are characterized by uncertainty and youth transitions by change. This longitudinal study of three generations of Australian women from nine families suggests something more nuanced, featuring continuities and discontinuities threaded throughout the lives of daughters, mothers, grandmothers and aunts interviewed over three decades. Discussion focuses on the most recent generation of interviewees, following some of the threads of th…
Sedimented professional identities
A shifting notion in the field of early childhood education (ECE) is what it is to be a ‘professional’. This paper examines third-year early childhood undergraduate pre-service teachers (PSTs) developing understandings of notions of ‘professionalism’ as expressed through identity texts. PSTs develop knowledge of standards, frameworks and policies that impact on their professional work and undertake a review of legislative requirements. As a count…
I’m learning how to do it’
The role of early childhood education and care (ECEC) is to support the learning and development of children in collaboration with families. The notion of inclusion in ECEC provides children with a sense of agency in becoming a learner able to participate fully and actively in their community. This paper illustrates how ECEC assessment approaches risk labelling young children in ‘deficit’ terms. The paper through a case study critically reflects …
Literacy, Cross-Cultural Interaction, and Colonialism
Multi-vocal voices of refugees
The inflow of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar experiencing trauma and torture is a major global issue. This article explores relationships with local communities as they are represented in the multi-vocal voices of Rohingya refugees. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with a group of Rohingya refugees based in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh along with observations of camp life. Twenty participants were interviewed. The observati…
The Role of Membership Viewpoints in Shaping Language Teacher Associations
The complexity inherent in the TESOL field can present challenges for Language Teacher Associations (LTAs) in undertaking internal‐facing roles such as professional learning including networking, conferences and publications, as well as external‐facing roles such as advocacy work with stakeholders, and curriculum reform, among other issues (e.g., Elsheikh & Effiong, 2018b; Lamb, 2012; Paran, 2016). LTAs must be cognizant of and responsive to chan…
Educators’ Construction of a Sense of Belonging in Ecec
The involvement of refugee families in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a complex issue in many countries. In this paper, we explore how early childhood (EC) educators construct refugee families’ sense of belonging in two metropolitan and one regional EC setting in Victoria, Australia. We undertook a multiple case study, analyzing interview data. We implemented Bourdieu’s notion of cultural capital and identity capital, drawing on the…
Professionalism and everyday practices in early childhood education and care
Notions of professionalism are central to how EC teachers enact practice. We explore how a group of Singaporean early childhood education and care (ECEC) pre-service teachers (PSTs) understand the notion of professionalism in this paper, drawing on their identity text work. The analysis is grounded by de Certeau’s thinking on the practice of everyday life, examining ideas about space, strategies and tactics. Findings show that PSTs’ notions of pr…
Home language literacy practices
It is well-established in both scholarship and policy documents that students’ home language practices can be leveraged as a key resource for their learning. However, it can be challenging for teachers to embed students’ language resources in class activities in ways that link to wider learning objectives. We report how the inclusion of home language literacy practices can both enhance English language learning and promote multiliteracies. Data a…
A visual analysis intergenerational play histories and practices
Exploring play and leisure histories and practices in a visual analysis of family photos opens ways to scrutinize intergenerational relationships. In this paper, we explore ideas about interactions between the old and young, and within and across generations through a visual analysis of play and leisure activities. By looking back through five generations of family photos of one Australian family, we examine play and leisure practices of older ge…
Photographs of Play
Research affirms positive results between children’s play and academic success. While play is heavily featured within the early childhood curriculum, limited studies have explored how play is actually implemented within early years settings. The aim of this study was to enhance children’s play and learning by using photographs to explore play-related pedagogical practices of early childhood teachers in Australia over time. Using visual narrative …
Young Children’s Play and the Role of Grandparents as Play Partners during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Play involves diverse meaning-making for young children and grandparents. This paper derives from a larger intergenerational family practices project conducted in Australia during 2021–2022 against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research team undertook intergenerational group interviews and filmed family play activities in addition to collecting videoclips and photos of young children’s play from six families. In this paper, vignettes…
Sociology (30 obras) · Psychology (20 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Pedagogy (15 obras) · Gender Studies (14 obras) · Developmental psychology (10 obras) · Early childhood education (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Early childhood (8 obras) · Art (7 obras)