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Early childhood is an important stage where children develop curiosity, values and problem-solving skills.
Supporting a child through intense emotions while managing your own is challenging work. Part of this is to practise identifying and validating emotions.
A lack of access to child care costs the state an estimated $2.7 billion in lost productivity and revenue.
Recent research shows that young children typically manipulate and rotate entire objects in their minds to understand challenges such as puzzles.
Findings of a study suggest using a ‘hundreds chart’ showing numbers one through 100, beginning with one in the top-left corner, fosters children’s counting by 10s.
The system has several elements and many problems. Making it fit for purpose will take a lot of work and even more resources than those that have just been announced.
Research confirms that a focus on restoring the well-being of educators is vital to deliver the gains promised by huge new investments in early childhood learning and care.
The two biggest states have jointly committed to a huge investment in early childhood education and learning over the next decade. But delivering high-quality universal preschool access won’t be easy.
A chasm has opened up between early childhood learning and the first years of compulsory schooling. Kids go from playing to being tested in the blink of an eye, and their learning is poorer for it.
New research demonstrates the many aspects of nature play that make it a great way for young children to gain STEM knowledge.
YouTube may have more potential to encourage children to learn than you’d think.
Choosing child care when returning to paid work can be hard and to the uninitiated the terms can be confusing. One alternative to long day care in a larger centre is known as family day care.
With parents trying to work from home while schools and daycare services are closed, some children may get more screen time than usual during COVID-19 social distancing.
Quality preschool can deliver $2 for every $1 from government. But families are paying more for it than if they sent their child to private primary school. Some forego quality for affordability.
Hide the credit cards and instead build traditions with your kids. Supporting a child through gift disappointment is important to their emotional, cognitive and social development.
Research shows early childhood educators are among the lowest-paid Australians, with some finding better pay in other fields such as night-time retail work.
There are several ways to help children learn and be interested in maths – even the reluctant ones.
Supporting early childhood literacy is not just about reading to your child. Research has found there are many and varied ways to increase literacy in early learning.
Child support grants are an income resource that enables caregivers to make healthier food choices and provide the means to send their children to school earlier.
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Associate Professor, Flinders University
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professor, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor: Teacher education for the primary school, University of Johannesburg
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Lecturer and Masters of Teaching (Early Childhood Education) Course Coordinator, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Education, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Work and Organisation, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, School of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences; Early Start Research Institute, University of Wollongong
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Professor and Head of School, School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer, University of Johannesburg