Associate Professor Karen Martin
Dates: 12-16 November 2008

Biography
Karen is a Noonuccal woman from Minjerripah (North Stradbroke Island - south east Queensland) and also has Bidjara ancestry (central Queensland). She has taught in Aboriginal Community controlled education services in all phases of schooling. She has lectured in Indigenous Australian Studies (James Cook University, Townsville) and teacher education at QUT (Brisbane). Karen has also published widely and lectured in Aboriginal early childhood education. Karen's PhD was conferred in March 2007 and was awarded the James Cook University Medal. n November 2007 Karen was jointly awarded the Australian Association of Research in Education Dissertation award. Thus, Karen's work is used internationally by First Nations and Maori scholars and researchers in the field of education, policy and human services. Karen's more recent publications apply this work in terms of effective changes in the schooling of young Aboriginal children. She is a steering committee member to the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (FaHCSIA) and member to the Expert Advisory Panel: Quality Working Group (Office of Early Childhood). She is now Associate Professor: Early Childhood, in the newly developed early childhood degree with the School of Education, Southern Cross University (Lismore).

Associate Professor Dr Wajuppa Tossa
Dates: 10-16 November 2008

Biography
Wajuppa Tossa is an Associate Professor at the Western Languages and Linguistics Department, Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty, Mahasarakham University where she teaches English and American Literature, Children's Literature, and Storytelling. In 1995, she founded the Mahasarakham University storytelling project. In this project, she gets people of all ages to be involved in preserving and revitalizing the use of local dialects and folktales in their daily lives and to take pride in their own cultural heritage. She has conducted storytelling workshops and performed in the USA, Australia, the Netherlands, Laos, Malaysia, and Singapore. She was a featured storyteller in several storytelling festivals such as, Asian Congress of Storytellers, Singapore International Storytelling Festival, the Book Fest in Seattle, and Story Fest International in the Pacific West Coast. Her publications include Phadaeng Nang Ai: a Translation of a Thai/Isan Folk Epic in Verse Bucknell University Press, 1990; Phya Khankhaak: A Translation of an Isan Fertility Myth into English Verse, by Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1996; and Lao Folktales, Libraries Unlimited, Connecticut, 2008.

Dr. Caroline Bath
Dates: 1 – 25 August 2008

Biography
Dr. Caroline Bath is the course leader for an Early Childhood Studies BA course at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. She became a teacher in 1983 and has worked in schools and nurseries across the north of England, including a post as an early years inclusion teacher in Sheffield, before starting her current university job in 2004.

During her teaching career, she gained distinction in a Masters degree in Poetry and then, stimulated by her work, studied for a Doctorate in Education. The focus of her thesis was young children's participation (examined by Professor Peter Moss in 2006) and her research interests continue to focus on this theme, in relation to early childhood practitioners and students.

Caroline has recently been engaged with other university staff in two research projects involving Education and Early Childhood students; one looking at concepts of citizenship and approaches to teaching and learning and the other looking at the experiences of British ethnic minority students. Both projects aim to improve the work of lecturers and course leaders. She has presented her research at recent EECERA conferences and has two forthcoming publications which have arisen from her research interests.

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Elaine Watts
Dates: 7-18 April 2008

Biography
Elaine Watts is currently a Curriculum Support Officer in Education Services at Falkirk Council in Scotland. Her main remit is Race Equality and her work involves supporting teachers and practitioners from all sectors to use an anti-discriminatory approach to all aspects of teaching and learning. She delivers professional development training on anti-racist education, global citizenship and anti-sectarianism and is currently supporting 5 schools in Falkirk with anti-sectarian projects. Elaine has just completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Equality and Discrimination at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and is planning to continue this on to a Masters.

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Professor Jeanette Rhedding-Jones
Dates: 2 January - 1 February 2008

Biography
Jeanette Rhedding-Jones is Professor in Early Childhood Education at Oslo and Bergen University Colleges, Norway. In Australia she was until 1997 a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, and worked in Australian teacher education for 20 years. In the 1960s and early 1970s she was a preschool teacher with 3-5 year olds in rural Victoria, and a teacher with 5-8 year olds in Melbourne and Gippsland. Her PhD 1994 was supervised by Lyn Yates and Molly Travers and examined by Bronwyn Davies, Sue Middleton and Pam Gilbert. Jeanette's academic qualifications are TITC (Burwood), BA (Gippsland), BEd (Deakin), MEd (Deakin) and PhD (La Trobe), all except the first obtained through distance education, by studying weekends and evenings. Her workplace languages since 1997 are Norwegian and English, and she was appointed as a full Professor in Norway in 2000. She is the mother of two sons and two daughters and the grandmother of a boy and a girl.

Jeanette's supervises and examines Doctoral and Masters dissertations written in Norwegian, Swedish and English. She is an anonymous referee for more than 10 international refereed journals and has guest edited Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood; Australian Research in Early Childhood Education; and Nora, Nordic Journal of Women's and Gender Studies. Her book and chapter publications are with Sage, Open University Press, Routledge, Praeger and Universitetsforlaget. Publications forthcoming are with Fagbokforlaget, Cambridge and Springer. Since 1995 her internationally refereed articles are in journals including the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing; Pedagogy, Culture and Society; Gender and Education; Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood; Journal of Curriculum Studies; British Educational Research Journal; British Journal of Sociology of Education; Australian Research in Education; Nordisk Pedagogik; Pedagogisk Forskning i Sverige; Qualitative Studies in Education; Transnational Curriculum Inquiry; Early Childhood Matters; and forthcoming in Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Studies. Further information is on Jeanette's website. Contact Jeanette via email.

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Dr. Gloria Swindler Boutte
Dates: 15-21 November 2007

Biography
Dr. Gloria Swindler Boutte is the author of Multicultural Education: Raising Consciousness and Resounding Voices: School Experiences of People From Diverse Ethnic Backgrounds. She has published numerous publications of journal articles. Additionally, she has presented nationally and internationally on curriculum, instruction, and diversity issues. She has taught at the South Carolina State University, the University of South Carolina (received early tenure), and at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (tenured). She is currently a full Professor at Benedict College and is the principal investigator for the statewide Center of Excellence for the Education and Equity of African American Students (CEEEAAS).

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Professor Beth Blue Swadener
Dates: 12 - 30 November 2007

Biography
Beth Blue Swadener is Professor and chairperson of Early Childhood Education and Professor of Policy Studies at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on social policy, professional development, dual language programs, and child and family issues in Africa. She has published eight books, including Does the Village Still Raise the Child?: A Collaborative Study of Changing Childrearing and Early Education in Kenya, Decolonizing Research in Cross-Cultural Context and Power and Voice in Research with Children and numerous articles and chapters. She is also active in a number of social justice and child advocacy projects including founding the Jirani Project, supporting AIDS orphans and street children, in Kenya.

Professor Paul Connolly
Dates: 11-18 November 2008

Biography
Paul Connolly is Professor of Education at Queen's University Belfast and also Director of the NFER at Queen's Centre for Educational Research. His main research interests are concerned with understanding young children's experiences and perspectives and particularly the ways in which factors such as race, ethnicity, gender and social class influence their attitudes and identities. Paul is the author of a number of books including: "Racism, Gender Identities and Young Children" (Routledge, 1998); "Too Young to Notice?: The Cultural and Political Awareness of 3-6 Year Olds in Northern Ireland" (Northern Ireland Community Relations Council, 2002); "Boys and Schooling in the Early Years" (Routledge, 2004); and "From Conflict to Peace Building: The Power of Early Childhood Initiatives - Lessons from Around the World" (2007, World Forum Foundation). Further details on Paul's work can be found on his website.

Professor Martin Woodhead
Dates: 27-30 August 2007

Biography
Professor Martin Woodhead is Professor of Childhood Studies at The Open University. His main research area relates to early childhood development, education and care, including policy studies and extensive international work. He has also carried out international research on child labour, and children¹s rights, including consultancy work for Save the Children, Council of Europe, OECD, UNICEF, UNESCO and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Professor David L. Kirp
Dates: June 2007

Biography
David L. Kirp is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. A former newspaper editor as well as an academic, his interests range widely across social policy. He has written on a wide array of topics, including education, race and gender discrimination, housing, AIDS, and civil liberties; and his books have been translated into a number of languages, including Chinese, Japanese and Ukranian. He contributes regularly to the national media, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic Monthly, American Prospect and The Nation. With support from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Packard Foundation, he is writing a book, Does Preschool Matter? , on the universal preschool movement; excerpts have appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, the San Francisco Chronicle and American Prospect.

Dr. Affrica Taylor
Dates: 23 April - 22 June 2007

Biography
Affrica is a cultural geographer with an extensive background in Aboriginal education. She currently lectures in undergraduate and graduate teacher education programs in Canberra and HangZhou, China. Drawing on postcolonial, queer and spatial theory, her research is concerned with the socio-cultural politics of difference - with a particular focus on gender/sexuality, inter-'racial' and inter-generational relations. Her recent children's ethnographies have explored the politics of difference that come into play when children first negotiate their places of belonging in early childhood settings. She is currently collaborating on projects to deploy queer theory in early childhood and to 'trouble' the discourse of childhood innocence.

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Professor Peter Moss
Dates: 18-24 November 2006

Biography
Peter Moss is Professor of Early Childhood Provision at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education University of London. His research interests include services for children; the workforce in these services and gender issues in work with children; and the relationship between employment and care, with a special interest in leave policies. Much of his work has been cross-national, especially within Europe; he is currently editor of a multi-national and multi-lingual magazine Children in Europe. Recent books include: Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care: Postmodern Perspectives (with Gunilla Dahlberg and Alan Pence); From Children's Services to Children's Spaces (with Pat Petrie); A New Deal for Children? Re-forming education and care in England, Scotland and Sweden (with Bronwen Cohen and Pat Petrie); and Ethics and Politics in Early Childhood Education (with Gunilla Dahlberg).

Professor Gaille S. Cannella
Dates: 13-27 November 2006

Biography
Professor Gaile S. Cannella is a former early childhood education teacher who has also worked in a range of university settings in the United States. Currently, she is Professor of education at Arizona State University and coordinator of the early childhood doctoral programs. In addition to a range of articles and book chapters, her books include Deconstructing Early Childhood Education: Social Justice and Revolution (published in Korean, as well as English), Kidworld: Childhood Studies, Global Perspectives, and Education, edited with Joe Kincheloe, and Embracing Identities in Early Childhood Education: Diversity and Possibilities, edited with Susan Grieshaber (published in Spanish, as well as English). Most recently, she has published Childhood and Postcolonization: Power, Education, and Contemporary Practice with Radhika Viruru. Her work uses feminist theories, poststructuralism, and postcolonial scholarship to examine contemporary critical issues in the field of early childhood education, as well as a current interest that focuses on critical qualitative research, ethical practices in research, and knowledge construction in higher education. This work can be found in two special issues of the journal Qualitative Inquiry titled Dangerous Discourses, and in a forthcoming issue titled Predatory Ethics.

Professor Margaret Eisenhart
Dates: 13-18 November 2006

Biography
Professor Margaret Eisenhart is a University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Education and Research Methodology at the University of Colorado. Margaret Eisenhart is Professor of Educational Anthropology and Research Methodology and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a member of the College of Education at Virginia Tech for seven years before moving to the University of Colorado. Dr. Eisenhart was a member of the Committee on Scientific Principles in Education Research. Her research and publications have focused on two topics: what young people learn about race, gender, and academic content in and around schools; and applications of ethnographic research methods in educational research. She is co-author of three books as well as numerous articles and chapters.

Professor Jeanette Rhedding-Jones
Dates: 14 December 2006 - 19 January 2007

Biography
Jeanette Rhedding-Jones is Professor in Early Childhood Education at Oslo University College, Norway (Førskolelærerutdanning). She has earlier professional experience as an Australian teacher-carer with 3-5 year olds, and as an early schooling teacher with 5-8 year olds. She is now a grandmother of two and a mother of four. Her internationally refereed publications for early childhood education include 15 articles in journals edited from the UK, USA, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand; book chapters for Sage, Open University Press, Praeger, Heinemann and Routledge; and guest editorials for Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, and Australian Research in Early Childhood. These publications (1991-2006) regard critical and contemporary issues and practices in early childhood education, various theories and research methodologies. Jeanette currently teaches and supervises early childhood Doctoral and Masters students writing in Norwegian. A current development project is with Muslim women and children aged 1-6 in Oslo. Her book What is Research? Methodological practices and new approaches (2005) is published by Universitetsforlaget Norway.

2006 Honorary Appointment
Emma Flores
Dates: 17 July - 25 August 2006

Biography
Emma Flores is a visiting PhD student in Educational Leadership and Organizational Policy from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA. Emma's research interests are in doctoral education, innovation in doctoral education, doctoral student socialization and retention and interdisciplinary studies. She will be assisting Dr Sherie McClam with her Early Career Researcher Grant entitled Developing transdisciplinary practices: What does it mean for discipline-based academics.

Elizabeth Wood
Dates: 9-19 May 2005

Biography
Elizabeth Wood is a Reader in Early Childhood Education at the University of Exeter. Elizabeth is an early childhood specialist, who early in her career taught 3-7 year old children. Elizabeth currently teaches a range of post-graduate programs, including the MEd Early Childhood Education, and the MSc Research Methods training for doctoral students. She also teaches on the initial teacher training program with early childhood and primary students.Her research interests include teachers' thinking and classroom practice, the role and value of play, transitions across phases, and socio-cultural orientations to learning, the policy-practice interface in early childhood education, and gender and under-achievement. Elizabeth has co-directed two research studies with Neville Bennett, on Teachers' Theories of Play and Progression and Continuity in the Early Years. Her publications range across these areas, and include two research-based books Teaching Through Play (with Neville Bennett, Open University Press, 1997); Play, Learning and the Early Childhood Curriculum (with Jane Attifield, Sage Publishing, 2nd Edition, May 2005).

Dr. Mariani Md Nor
Dates: October 2004 - March 2005

Lecturer in Department of Psychology Education and Counselling Faculty of Education , University of Malaya. Area of Specialisation: Early Childhood Education/Psycholgy.
Coordinator Early Childhood Programme (undergraduate and postgraduate) Curriculum Developer of the National Early Childhood Curriculum Coordinator.

Professor Anne Smith
Dates: October 2003 - January 2004

Biography
Professor Anne Smith obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in Canada in Educational Psychology in 1971, and taught in the Education Department at the University of Otago on her return to New Zealand in 1974. She took up her present position in 1995, as Director of the Children's Issues Centre, an interdisciplinary children's research and advocacy centre at the University of Otago. Anne was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1995, received the McKenzie Award for innovative research in Education in 1997, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Oulu Finland in 1998. She is the author of a well known book in child development Understanding Children's Development, which is now in its fourth edition, and many other publications. Anne's research is framed by sociology of childhood, children's rights, and socio-ecological theoretical perspectives, and emphasises children as social actors, interpreters and participants in the events and experiences of their lives. Anne and colleagues at the CIC, have developed a variety of methodologies for observing or talking to children about their experiences in a variety of contexts, including family, school, early childhood centre, and the legal and social welfare systems. Anne's particular interests in children include social cognition, friendships, situated learning, and how adults scaffold and support the development of children's thinking and agency.

Michelle Ortlipp
Dates: January - June 2003

Biography
I am currently completing a PhD under the supervision of Associate Professor Glenda MacNaughton. I trained as a preschool teacher in the 1970s and taught for 12 years in Victorian Preschools. I then worked as a TAFE teacher and program coordinator at Wodonga Institute of TAFE for 9 years before taking up a position as lecturer in the Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood) at Charles Sturt University in Albury. In my work at both TAFE and CSU I have been involved in the coordination of the practicum, and it was this experience that led to my interest in the process of practicum assessment, which has become the topic of my PhD.

My research project centred around tertiary supervisors' perspectives on assessment of the early childhood practicum (or professional experience as it is increasingly being referred to) in courses preparing students to work in early childhood settings. The broad aim of the study is to explore the knowledge-power regimes within which tertiary supervisors produce early childhood practicum assessment strategies. Specifically it asks within which specific pedagogical and assessment discourses tertiary supervisors understand and practice assessment, how power is exercised and by whom within these discourses and what the discursive silences, resistances, and sites of contradiction within these discourses are. The conceptual framework for the interpretation of the data is being developed using selected poststructuralist concepts such as discourse, subjectivity and power, drawn from the work of Michel Foucault, Bronwyn Davies and Chris Weedon.

Heather d'Cruz
Dates: Semester 2 - 2003

Deakin University

Dr. Karen Cachevki Williams
Dates: June 2003

University of Wyoming
Associate Professor and Head Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
P.O. Box 3354 Laramie WY 82071

Jonathan Silin
Dates: February - April 2002

Biography
Jonathan Silin is a member of the graduate faculty, Bank Street College of Education in New York where he teaches and pursues research on the nature of contemporary childhood. He is also Director of Research for a major school initiative in Newark, NJ that is designed to restructure early childhood education in that city. He has published numerous scholarly articles in journals such as the Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record, and Educational Theory as well as occasional essays in more popular periodicals such Newsday, Education Week, and the East Hampton Star. He is the author of Sex, Death, and the Education of Children: Our Passion for Ignorance in the Age of AIDS (Teachers College Press, 1995). Before receiving his doctorate in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University, he was a classroom teacher and taught in a variety of early childhood settings.

Whilst visiting the CEIEC Dr. Silin will conduct research with the CEIEC team members in the following project. For more information contact Dr. Silin.

Today's Child and Tomorrow's Curriculum:
Social Responsibilities and the New Standards. In collaboration with Associate Professor Glenda MacNaughton, I conducted qualitative research into the relationship between the changing nature of childhood - including the impact of technology, evolving family structures, increasingly multicultural communities - and the early childhood curriculum. In an era of intensified accountability, how can young children's questions about their immediate worlds be used to promote learning? This research is significant because parents and politicians in Australia and the U.S. are calling for new standards and high-stakes tests. At the same time, educators have questioned their impact, noting that they lead to a narrowed curriculum from which social studies, the arts, and discussion of difficult social issues are excluded.

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Ms Anke van Keulen
Dates: 22-28 March 2002

MUTANT (Anti-Bias Agency)
The Netherlands

Dr. Mindy Ochsner
University of Texas, USA

Dr. Sharon Ryan
Rutgers University, USA

Dr. Julie Koamea
University of Hawaii

Professor Kenneth Maton
University of Maryland