The international trend to increase the cognitive achievement of early childhood children
has generated a need for better understanding how concept formation occurs within play …

Environmental education represents a growing area of interest in early childhood education,
especially since the inclusion of environmental principles and practices in the Australian …

IN RECENT YEARS THE CONCEPT of child-centred play as an informant to the early
childhood curriculum has been critiqued as an insufficient pedagogical approach for …

The role of domain‐specific content knowledge is discussed controversially for the early
childhood context. Therefore, this review aims at untangling the research on domain …

Vygotsky (1986) draws attention to the interrelationship between thought and language and
other aspects of mind. Although not widely acknowledged, Vygotsky (1999) also drew …

THIS PAPER REPORTS ON the findings of a study into the perceived everyday science
practices occurring within an early childhood centre in a southern part of Australia. In …

Preservice teachers (PSTs) must learn to approach curriculum and pedagogy in a socially
just way. Descriptive examination of early childhood PSTs' personal funds of knowledge is …

Young children are keenly motivated to inquire into and make meaning about their worlds.
This article discusses working theories, one of two indicative learning outcomes of the New …

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been introduced into schools
internationally along with the expectation that teachers will use constructivist practices in …

Early childhood education (ECE) teachers have traditionally been trained as generalists.
However, there is now a growing awareness of the potential importance of having …