Director, Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood

Certificate of Project Consultancy (RMIT) 1997
Doctor of Philosophy (Deakin University) 1996
Bachelor of Education (Deakin University) 1988
Diploma of Early Childhood Studies (Froebel College, London) 1984
Diploma of Teaching (Early Childhood) (Melbourne Kindergarten Teachers College) 1972

Early childhood education - curriculum, pedagogies and practices
Reflective practice
Citizenship and young children

Please link to the CEIEC homepage for this information
- http://www.education.unimelb.edu.au/ceiec

Books - published
MAC NAUGHTON, G. – Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies. Routlege & Falmer Press, London: 236 pp. (2005). (Currently being translated into Korean and into Bahasa Indonesion)
MAC NAUGHTON, G. & WILLIAMS, G. - Teaching Techniques: Choices in Theory and Practice. (2nd edition). Pearson & Open University Press: (2008 – 3rd Edition). (2004 – 2nd Edition).
MAC NAUGHTON, G. - Shaping Early Childhood: Learners, Curriculum and Contexts. Open University Press: 288 pp. (2003).
MAC NAUGHTON, G.. ROLFE, S. & SIRAJ-BLATCHFORD, I. (Eds) - Doing Early Childhood Research, Allen & Unwin, Sydney: 320 pp. (2001 (Translated 2007 into Chinese)
MAC NAUGHTON, G. – Rethinking Gender in Early Childhood Education. Allen & Unwin, Sydney: pp. 269 (2000). Paul Chapman, London: pp. 269 (2000).
HUGHES, P. & MAC NAUGHTON, G. - Communication in Early Childhood Services: A Practical Guide, RMIT Publications, Melbourne: 298 pp. (1999).
FARAGHER, J. & MAC NAUGHTON, G. - Working with Young Children: Guidelines for Good Practice,(2nd Edition) RMIT Publications, Melbourne: 237 pp. (1998).
MAC NAUGHTON, G & WILLIAMS, G. - Techniques for Teaching Young Children: Choices in Theory and Practice. Addison Wesley Longman, Melbourne: 350 pp. (1998). FARAGHER, J. & MAC NAUGHTON, G. - Working with Young Children: Guidelines for Good Practice, TAFE Publications Unit, Melbourne: 176 pp. (1990). Reprinted 1992, 1994, 1996.


Books in press
MAC NAUGHTON, G., HUGHES, P. & SMITH, K. (Eds) - Young Children as Citizens. Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge.
MAC NAUGHTON, G. & HUGHES, P. – Doing Action Research in Early Childhood. Open University Press.


Chapters in books – published
MACNAUGHTON, G. - Constructing gender in early years education. In C. Skelton, B. Francis & L. Smulyan (Eds.). Sage Handbook: Gender and Education. 2008 (pp. 127 – 138)
MACNAUGHTON, G. – Early childhood education. B. Bank (Ed.) Gender and Education: An Encyclopaedia. Greenwood Press, USA.2007. (pp. 263 – 269)
DAVIS, K. MACNAUGHTON, G. & SMITH, K. - Researching with children: The challenges and possibilities for building ‘child friendly’ research. A. Hatch (Ed.). Handbook on Qualitative Research in Early Childhood. USA. 2007
MACNAUGHTON, G. & GUNN, A. - Gender issues in early childhood education. In . L. Keesing-Styles & H. Hedges (Eds.) Critical Issues in Early Childhood Education in Australia and New Zealand, Pademelon Press, Sydney. 2007. (pp. 121 – 136).
MAC NAUGHTON, G. & SMITH, K. Exploring ethics and difference: the choices and challenges of researching with children. In A. Farrell (Ed.) Exploring ethical research with children, Open University Press. (2005) (pp. 112 - 123).
MACNAUGHTON, G. - Exploring critical constructivist perspectives on children’s learning. In A. Anning, J. Cullen & M. Fleer (Eds). Early Childhood Education: Society and Culture, Sage Publications, London. (2004) (pp. 43 – 56).
MACNAUGHTON, G. - Learning from young children about social diversity: challenges for our equity practices in the classroom. In . A. van Keulen (Ed.) Young Children Aren’t Biased, Are they? B.V. Uitgeverij SWP: Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (2004a) (pp. 65 – 76),
MAC NAUGHTON, G. - Rethinking gender in early childhood pedagogies. In Wassilios E. Fthenakis / Pamela Oberhuemer (Eds.) Frühpädagogik international: Bildungsqualität im Blickpunkt Early childhood curriculum issues: international perspectives, VERLAG, (2004b) (pp. 345 – 355.)
CAMPBELL, S. MACNAUGHTON, G. PAGE, J. & ROLFE, S.- Beyond quality, advancing social justice and equity: interdisciplinary explorations of working for equity and social justice in early childhood education. Volume 13 of Advances in Early Education and Day Care. S. Reiffel (Ed.). JAI Press an Imprint of Elseverier Science. (2004) (pp. 55 - 91 )
MACNAUGHTON, G. - The possibilities and challenges of ‘not knowing’: early childhood teachers’ knowledge and thinking in uncertain times, in B. Spodek and O. Saracho (Eds), Studyi