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Centre Research

The Centre focuses on improving equity and social justice for young children and their families through interlinked processes of research, publication, resource development and professional learning and development.These processes frame the Centre’s work and link it to the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and the University’s mission.


Research

The Centre’s research explores and promotes social justice, children’s rights and progressive social change in diverse formal and non-formal educational settings. Its activities and projects rest on research that has an emphasis on collaborative, action-oriented and field-based approaches to innovation and equity. The Centre’s research program drives its approach to social justice, children’s rights and progressive social change. Research is considered a process through which ideas and practices can be developed, tested, theorised, critiqued and reconstructed in order to inform and create progressive social change. International transfer of the CEIEC’s research output is a key test of its value.


Publication

The CEIEC publishes its research outcomes in a variety of media to cater for diverse audiences that include practitioners, policy-makers, academics, students and human rights advocates. Its in-house publications include a fully refereed international on-line journal, a quarterly newsletter, occasional Equity Issues Papers, quarterly Member’s Briefing Papers and e-publications including a CD ROM and project-based websites. The Centre also publishes its work in commercial publications, scholarly journals and in diverse professional publication. Publications for each project are listed in this report.


Resource development

The development strategies employed by the Centre translate research outcomes into resources and training programmes that practitioners, trainers and policy makers can use to support change processes in their sphere of influence. Resources are developed in each research program to offer practical tools to support innovation.


Professional learning and development
The CEIEC draws on its research programs to offer a series of seminars, workshops, publications and other means to disseminate what is learnt through its research. Professional development programs also assist in research dissemination. The Centre conducts training programs, action learning projects and international learning exchanges that draw on its research.

Graduate supervision and teaching of award and non-award courses extends the Centre’s research program as research graduates actively participate and/or manage components of the Centre’s research agenda. Most graduate students are linked closely with one of the CEIEC’s research programs. Internal seminars enable graduate students and research associates to present and discuss their work in a collegial environment. The seminars involve a range of academic and industry/community/education speakers and are publicised outside the University.


Research Programs
The CEIEC currently has 3 active research programs. They are:

Student Research
Postgraduate research is a key facet of the work of the CEIEC. There is an active and growing post-graduate research program through which Masters and Doctoral students make a major contribution leading-edge research on equity, children's rights and innovative practices and policies in early childhood education.

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Date created:
9 August 2006
Last modified:
02 October 2008 07:33:08
Authoriser:
Kate Alexander, Cluster/Centre Administrator, Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Maintainer:
Robert Buttrose
Email:
buttrose@unimelb.edu.au