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AJEC - Volume 35 No. 1 March 2010
Editorial - March 2010
Tomboys and sissy girls: Exploring girls' power, agency and female relationships in childhood through the memories of women (free full-text available)
Kiss and tell: Gendered narratives and childhood sexuality
The tug of war: When queer and early childhood meet
Gay mothers and early childhood education: Standing tall
A review of gay and lesbian themed early childhood children’s literature
(Re)marking heteronormativity: Resisting practices in early childhood education contexts
AJEC - Volume 34 No. 4, December 2009
Editorial - December 2009
Insider perspectives on developing Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia (free full-text available)
Early childhood teachers' misconceptions about mathematics education for young children in the United States (free full-text available)
Early childhood service delivery for families living with disability: Disabling families through problematic implicit ideology
The challenges of implementing primary arts education: What our teachers say
Early childhood safety education: An overview of safety curriculum in outer metropolitan, regional and rural NSW
Closing the gap: Myths and truths behind subitisation
Beyond developmentalism? Early childhood teachers' understandings of multiage grouping in early childhood education and care
AJEC - Volume 34 No. 3, September 2009
Editorial - September 2009
A pedagogy of care: Moving beyond the margins of managing work and minding babies (Free full-text available)
Parent and staff expectations for continuity of home practices in the child care setting for families with diverse cultural backgrounds (Free full-text available)
Centre-based child care quality in urban Australia
Picture books stimulate the learning of mathematics
Drawing stories: The power of children's drawings to communicate the lived experience of starting school
Safe play areas for prevention of young children drowning in farm dams
AJEC - Volume 34 No 2, June 2009
Editorial - June 2009
Learning with technology for pre-service early childhood teachers (Free full-text available)
Bottling the good stuff: Stories of hospitality and yarnin' in a multi-racial kindergarten (Free full-text available)
Early childhood teachers in contexts of power: Empowerment and a voice
Video interactions for teaching and learning (VITAL): Analysing videos online to learn to teach early childhood mathematics
The Australian Early Development Index, who does it measure: Piaget or Vygotsky's child?
Marry the prince or stay with the family - that is the question: A perspective of young Korean immigrant girls on Disney marriages in the United States
Changing schools: How policy implementation can impact on the literacy learning of mobile students
AJEC - Volume 34 No 1, March 2009
Editorial - March 2009
Australian Indigenous perspectives on quality assurance in children's services (free full-text available)
Neurobiology and child development: Challenging current interpretation and policy implications (free full-text available)
Improving the representation of Indigenous workers in the mainstream childcare workplace
Readiness for school: A relational construct
A pathway to enhancing professionalism: Building a bridge between TAFE and university early childhood qualifications
Developing an active play resource for a range of Australian early childhood settings: Formative findings and recommendations
Improving processual quality in early education and care: Process findings from the evaluation of the Benevolent Society's Partnerships in Early Education program
AJEC - Volume 33 No. 4, December 2008
Editorial - December 2008
The impact of early numeracy engagement on 4-year-old Indigenous students (Free full-text available)
Bridging the gap: Improving literacy outcomes for Indigenous students (Free full-text available)
Can norms developed in one country be applicable to children of another country?
The social attention skills of preschool children with an intellectual disability and children with a hearing loss
Is all-day kindergarten better for children's academic performance? Evidence from the early childhood longitudinal study
Measuring what students entering school know and can do: PIPS Australia 2006-2007
Learning a music instrument in early childhood: What can we learn from professional musicians' childhood memories?
AJEC - Volume 33 No. 3, September 2008
Editorial - September 2008
Teachers following children?: Heteronormative responses within a discourse of child-centredness and the emergent curriculum (free full-text available)
Women's reflections on choosing quality long day care in a regional community (free full-text available)
Contextual factors affecting inclusion during children's transitions from preschool to school
Enhancing environmental awareness through the arts
A collaborative approach to literacy: Inner-city preschool children, families, and the school community
The construction of early childhood teachers' professional identities, then and now
The Preparatory Year in a Queensland non-government school: Exploring parents' views
AJEC - Volume 33 No. 2, June 2008
Editorial - June 2008
Physical activity programs in long day care and family day care settings (free full-text available)
Outdoor play: Does avoiding the risks reduce the benefits? (free full-text available)
Word-play and musike: Young children learning literacies while communicating playfully
Partnerships in learning: Linking early childhood services, families and schools for optimal development
Parent cognitions and parent-infant interaction: The relationship with development in the first 12 months
Playgrounds of learning: Valuing competence and agency in birth to three-year-olds
Accessing the musical intelligence in early childhood education
Book review: 'Young bilingual learners at home and school' (free full-text available)
Book review: 'Young children's behaviour' (free full-text available)
AJEC - Volume 33 No. 1, March 2008
Editorial - March 2008
Meeting the goals of Te Whariki through music in the early childhood curriculum
Making the multicultural learning environment flourish: The importance of the child–teacher relationship in educating young children about diversity
Presence as a dimension of early childhood professional practice
Early childhood teachers coping with educational change
Encouraging the reflection process in undergraduate teachers using guided reflection
Computer use by preschool children: Rethinking practice as digital natives come to preschool (free full-text available)
Bullying affects us too: Parental responses to bullying at kindergarten
Concerts for young children
Indigenous child care—leading the way (free full-text available)
AJEC - The arts issue - Volume 32 No. 4, December 2007
Editorial - December 2007
The possum story: Reflections of an early childhood drama teacher (free full-text available)
Musical stories: Strategies for integrating literature and music for young children
Exposing young children to music through the production and presentation of music-appreciation television programs
The use of music CDs and DVDs in the home with the under-fives: What the parents say
Outdated relics on hallowed ground: Unearthing attitudes and beliefs about young children's art
Conceptions of art in Hong Kong preschool children
Young children's meaning-making through drawing and 'telling': Analogies to filmic textual features (free full-text available)
Children of refugee families as artists: Bridging the past, present and future
AJEC - Volume 32 No. 3, September 2007
Editorial - September 2007
Children's rights and early childhood education (free full-text available)
Indigenous Australians and preschool education
University-qualified Indigenous early childhood teachers (free full-text available)
Children's services, wages and WorkChoices
The health and wellbeing of adults working in early childhood education
From bogey mountains to funny houses
Home–school partnership within mathematics intervention
'I know how much this child has learned. I have proof!'
AJEC - Volume 32 No. 2, June 2007
Editorial - June 2007
The future is created by and within children
Study, work, rest and play: Juggling the priorities of students' lives
An investigation into the practices of a class of field-based student educators working in linguistically diverse early childhood centres
Documenting the early literacy and numeracy practices of home tutors in distance and isolated education in Australia (free full-text available)
The play of children with special needs in mainstream and special education settings
Internationalisation: Some implications for teaching early childhood research
Preparing children for school—benefits and privileges
Parent choice of early childhood education and care services (free full-text available)
AJEC - Volume 32 No. 1, March 2007
Editorial - March 2007
Beyond child care—how else could we do this? Sociocultural reflections on the structural and cultural arrangements of contemporary Western child care (free full-text available)
Voices from an enclave: Lesbian mothers' experiences of child care (free full-text available)
The forgotten children in Australian detention centres before 2005
Complexities and compromises: Understanding parents' experiences and choice of early childhood education and care services
When are beliefs just 'the tip of the iceberg'?
The role of meaningful dialogue in early childhood education leadership
Storytelling as a means of reflecting on the lived experience of making curriculum in teacher education
AJEC - Volume 31 No. 4, December 2006
Editorial - December 2006
The impact of age and gender on Prep children's academic achievements
The politics of technology in early childhood in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Fitting early childhood educators in the ICT grid
‘Boundary crossing': Negotiating understandings of early literacy and numeracy pathways
‘A day in the life': Exploring eating events involving two-year-old girls and their families in diverse communities
Empowering preservice teachers to embrace diversity (free full-text available)
Equity issues in practicum assessment
Affordability funding models for early childhood services (free full-text available)
AJEC - Volume 31 No. 3, September 2006
Editorial - September 2006
A preliminary study of teachers' perceptions of sex education in Hong Kong preschools
Parent perspectives on childcare quality among a culturally diverse sample (free full-text available)
What personal/social skills are important for young children commencing kindergarten? : Exploring teachers' and parents' insights
Repeated-viewing and co-viewing of an animated video: An examination of factors that impact on young children's comprehension of video content
Life chances: Including the children's view
Horizontal violence in early childhood education and care: Implications for leadership enactment (free full-text available)
The regulatory environment in long day care: A ‘double-edged sword' for early childhood professional practice
AJEC - Volume 31 No. 2, June 2006
Editorial - June 2006
Playgroups as protective environments for refugee children at risk of trauma (free full-text available)
Raising children in Chinese immigrant families: Evidence from the research literature
Measuring child engagement in inclusive early childhood settings: Implications for practice
Checklists to narratives in special education
Literacy in early childhood settings in New Zealand: An examination of teachers' beliefs and practices
Can drawing facilitate problem-solving? An exploratory study
The impact of regulatory environments on early childhood professional practice and job satisfaction: A review of conflicting discourses (free full-text available)
AJEC - Volume 31 No. 1 March 2006
Editorial - March 2006
From Whitlam to economic rationalism and beyond: A conceptual framework for political activism in children's services (free full-text available)
The implementation of Families First NSW: Process lessons from the first four years
Enhancing parent–child book reading in a disadvantaged community
The stories we share: Using narrative assessment to build communities of literacy participants in early childhood centres
The inclusion of children with a disability in child care: The influence of experience, training and attitudes of childcare staff (free full-text available)
Leadership concepts and theories: Reflections for practice for early childhood directors
Troubling teaching
Book review: ‘How to develop children's early literacy: A guide for professional carers and educators'
AJEC Volume 30 No.4 December 2005
Editorial - December 2005
Constraints and facilitators for physical activity in family day care (free full-text available)
Social inclusion—the next step: User friendly strategies to promote social interaction and acceptance between children with disabilities and their peers
Mathematics teaching and learning in the early years in Aotearoa/New Zealand
The reasoning behind the scene: Why do early childhood educators use computers in their classrooms?
A comparative study of early childhood fear and caregivers' responses to fear in Australia and Canada
A place for sound: Raising children's awareness of their sonic environment
Researching with/for whom? Stepping in and out of practitioner research (free full-text available)
AJEC - Transitions - Volume 30 No. 3 September 2005
Editorial - September 2005
Starting school—a Singapore story told by children (free full-text available)
Transitions: Third Culture Children
Transition problems and play as transitory activity
Transition to school for gifted children
What did you do in maths today?
Developing in a new language-speaking setting
Concerns and expectations of Bangladeshi parents as their children start school
Romance or reality? : Examining burnout in early childhood teachers (free full-text available)
AJEC - Controversy, innovation and other alternatives - Volume 30 No. 2 June 2005
Editorial - June 2005
Letter to the editor
Developmental fossils—unearthing the artefacts of early childhood education: The reification of ‘Child Development' (free full-text available)
The normalised child: A non-traditional psychological framework
Response to ‘The normalised child'
‘Queerying' gender: Heteronormativity in early childhood education (free full-text available)
What cortisol levels tell us about quality in childcare centres
Staff shortages in children's services: Challenging taken-for-granted discourses
The Communication Accretion Spiral: A communication process for promoting and sustaining meaningful partnerships between families and early childhood staff
AJEC Volume 30 No.1 March 2005
Editorial - March 2005
Theorising in Progress - An ethical journey: Rights, relationships and reflexivity (free full-text available)
Primary Research - Gender, the labour market, the workplace and policy in children's services: Parent, staff and student attitudes (free full-text available)
Governance of children's everyday spaces
Teacher understandings of and commitment to gender equity in the early childhood setting
Mentoring preservice teachers in the preschool setting: Perceptions of the role
Half-days or full days of kindergarten? How and why parents decide
Teacher–parent partnerships: Sharing understandings and making changes
Children's and family services working together
Book review: Early childhood environmental education
AJEC Volume 29 No.4 December 2004
Editorial - December 2004
Transcript: Indigenous Australian perspectives in early childhood education
Early childhood education programs for indigenous children in Canada, Australia and New Zealand (free full-text available)
Teachers who support Reggio—exploring their understandings of the philosophy
In whose interest? Voluntarism and child care, 1880-1980
Critical pedagogy: A useful framework for thinking about early childhood curriculum
Pedagogy in the nursery: Establishing practitioner partnerships in high-quality long day care programs
Music experiences for toddlers in day care centres
East Timor: Building on the early years
Book review: Shaping early childhood: Learners, curriculum and context (free full-text available)
AJEC - Autism Spectrum Disorder - Volume 29 No. 3 September 2004
Editorial - September 2004 (free full-text available)
Transcript: Meeting the needs of children with autistic spectrum disorders in the early years (free full-text available)
Autism: The heart of the disorder? Sensory processing and social engagement—illustrations from autobiographical accounts and selected research findings
Strategies to reduce the bullying of young children with Asperger Syndrome
Adaptive education for students with special needs in the inclusive classroom
Early intervention for children with autism: Parental priorities
Evaluating the efficacy of parent-focused interventions for autism: How do we know what will work?
Change in behavioural symptoms in children with high-functioning autism and Asperger Syndrome: Evidence for one disorder?
Book Reviews: A parent's guide to Asperger Syndrome (free full-text available)
AJEC Volume 29 No.2 June 2004
Transcript: ‘Can run, play on bikes, jump the zoom slide, and play on the swings': Exploring the value of outdoor play
The extramusical effects of music lessons on preschoolers (free full-text available)
The introduction of new technologies: New possibilities for early childhood pedagogy
Children's animated TV programs: A content analysis
Multiple ways of knowing and seeing: Reflections on the renewed vigour in early childhood research
Take-home numeracy kits for preschool children
Drawing: The social construction of knowledge
Excellence in television for young children—entertainment, engagement and empowerment
Book review: Young children's behaviour (free full-text available)
AJEC - Chronic illness - Volume 29 No.1 March 2004
Children, staff and parents: Building respectful relationships in New Zealand and Australian early childhood contexts The Australian context
Teacher communication across the preschool-school boundary
Independence and interdependence in early childhood services
Life after the shock! The impact on families of caring for young children with chronic illness
‘Everyone was really happy to see me!' The importance of friendships in the return to school of children with chronic illness
Maintaining the thread: Including young children with chronic illness in the primary classroom
Working mothers of children with chronic illness: Narratives of working and caring
Socio-cultural matrix of raising a child with food allergies: Experiences of a migrant mother
Slipping through the policy cracks: Children with chronic illness in early childhood settings
AJEC Volume 28 No.4 December 2003
Valuing Children
Early childhood teachers' knowledge of teaching children with disabilities
Sharing care and education: Parents' perspectives
An integrated approach to teaching social skills to preschoolers at risk
Assessment of the early childhood practicum: What can we learn from tertiary supervisors' silences?
Are we asking the right question when we ask ‘Is child care bad for children?'
Fundamental movement skills: Teachers' perspectives
Fundamental movement skills: Children's perspectives
How working parents cope with the care of sick young children
AJEC Volume 28 No 3 September 2003
Editorial - September 2003
Roots and Branches: Comparing Child Care Policymaking in the US and Australia
Grandparents as regular child care providers: Unrecognised, under-valued and under-resourced
‘The tooth fairy comes, or is it just your Mum and Dad?': A child's construction of knowledge
SUPS workers' perspective of child care quality
Developing quality sociodramatic play in the classroom for young children with language delays
Parental perceptions of computer-based gaming technology: An evaluation of children's leisure pursuits in the computer age
Children talk about their early experiences at school
Indigenous parents' ratings of the importance of play, Indigenous games and language, and early childhood education
AJEC Volume 28 No 2 June 2003
The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there: What adopting a sociocultural perspective can help us see.
Sharing the lived experiences of children
Preschooler response to pre-recorded music in three different situations
Changing times: Changing challenges for early childhood leaders
One size doesn't fit all: Patterns of pre-primary teacher policy engagement
Transitioning children from early childhood education to school: Teacher beliefs and transition practices
Teacher and student teacher perspectives of school readiness
AJEC Volume 28 No 1 March 2003
From bad to worse?: Troubling development in preschool settings
Reflections on doing research with young children
Children's views and children's voices in starting school
Researching with children: Lessons in humility, reciprocity, and community
Research with children: A rich glimpse into the world of childhood
Eclipsing voice in research with young children
AJEC Volume 27 No 4 December 2002
Children's earliest memories: A narrative study
Full-day or half-day kindergarten? Kindergarten teachers' voices in the debate
Jane and Gemma go to school: Supporting young gifted Aboriginal students
Children´s concepts of teachers´ ways of relating to play
Emerging concepts in chance and data
Social skills training to reduce aggressive and withdrawn behaviours in child care centres
Early childhood numeracy: Building an understanding of part–whole relationships
AJEC Volume 27 No 3 September 2002
Student teacher knowledge: Knowing and understanding subject matter in the New Zealand context
Junior pay, senior responsibilities: The experiences of junior child care workers
Early childhood services: What can children tell us?
Inclusion in early childhood services: Ongoing challenges
The communicative competence of young children
Assessing young children's arithmetical strategies and knowledge: Providing learning opportunities for teachers
When food comes from home
AJEC - Innovations on preparing early childhood professionals - Volume 27 No 2 June 2002
Early childhood education: A public right and not a privilege
Nurturing the spirit to teach: Commitment, community and emergent curriculum
Preparing early childhood professionals to work with parents: The challenges of diversity and dissensus
Teaching as inquiry: Engaging preservice teachers with research
Educating early childhood professionals: A collaborative approach in the ACT
Bicultural development: Innovation in implementation of Te Whäriki
Book reviews: Peer play and the autism spectrum
Papua New Guinea elementary teacher education: Mixed mode teacher training for 16 000 village teachers
AJEC Volume 27 No 1 March 2002
Research evidence with political currency: Keeping early childhood education on the international agenda
Revisiting the challenge of staff recruitment and retention in children's services
Proving quality or improving quality: Who's minding the shop?
Revisiting adult work in early childhood settings: Shifting the frame
The performance of long day care centres in rural and remote areas
The role of an invitational curriculum in the identification of giftedness in young children
The service needs of families caring for preschool-aged children with disruptive behaviours

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