Kylie Smith is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Kylie’s research examines how theory and practice can challenge the operation of equity in the early childhood classroom and she has worked with children, parents and teachers to build safe and respectful communities. In her work with the CEIEC, Kylie has been actively involved in leading consultations with young children in curriculum and policy making in the early years.

Dr. Smith is a Research Fellow (part-time) with the CEIEC and is engaged in several CEIEC research projects.

PhD (University of Melbourne)

MacNaughton, G, Hughes, P., & Smith, K. (Eds.) (forthcoming 2008). Young children as active citizens: principles, policies and pedagogies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

MacNaughton, G. & Smith, K. (forthcoming 2008) Engaging ethically with young children: principles and practices for listening and responding with care. In G. MacNaughton, P. Hughes, & K. Smith (Eds.) Young children as active citizens: principles, policies and pedagogies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: London.

Smith, K. & Hughes, P. (forthcoming 2008) Children challenging adults: the Yarra Valley Project. In G. MacNaughton, P. Hughes, & K. Smith (Eds.) Young children as active citizens: principles, policies and pedagogies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: London.

McGrath, G., McGrath, Z., Parson, S., Saitta, S., Swan, G., & Smith, K. (forthcoming 2008) "You’re not going to like this but ... ": learning to hear children as experts in early childhood classrooms. In G. MacNaughton, P. Hughes, & K. Smith (Eds.) Young children as active citizens: principles, policies and pedagogies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: London.

Saballa, M., MacNaughton, G. & Smith, K. (forthcoming 2008) Working with children to create policy: the case of the Australian Capital Territory’s Children’s Plan. In G. MacNaughton, P. Hughes, & K. Smith (Eds.) Young children as active citizens: principles, policies and pedagogies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: London.

MacNaughton, G., Smith, K & Davis, K. (submitted). Working and reworking children’s performance of ‘Whiteness’ in early childhood education. In M. O’Loughlin & R. Johnson (Eds). Working the space in between: Pedagogical possibilities in rethinking children’s subjectivity. SUNY Press.

Davis, K., Gunn, A.C., Purdue, K. & Smith, K. (2007). Forging ahead: moving Towards inclusive and anti-discriminatory education within Australian and New Zealand early childhood contexts. In. L. Keesing-Styles & H. Hedges (Eds.) Critical Issues in Early Childhood Education in Australia and New Zealand, Pademelon Press, Sydney.

MacNaughton, G.M., Smith, K. & Davis, K. (2007). Researching with children: The challenges and possibilities for building ‘child friendly’ research. In J. A. Hatch (Ed). Early Childhood Qualitative Research. Routledge, New York. pp. 167-205.

MacNaughton, G. & Smith, K. (2005). Exploring ethics and difference: the choices and challenges of researching with children. In A. Farrell (Ed.) Exploring ethical research with children, Buckingham: Open University Press. pp.112-123.

Campbell, S. & Smith, K. (2001). Equity Observation and Images of Fairness in Childhood. In Grieshaber, S. & Cannella, G. (Eds). Embracing Identities in Early Childhood Education: Diversity and Possibilities. New York: Teachers College Press. pp 89-102

MacNaughton, G., Davis, K & Smith, K. (submitted – under review). Gendering ‘race’: young girls negotiating proto-feminised whiteness in a preschool setting. Gender and Race.

MacNaughton, G., Hughes, P. & Smith, K. (2007) Young children’s rights and public policy: practices and possibilities for citizenship in the early years. Children and Society. (On line early articles - http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2007.00096.x).

Smith, K. (2007) Fairytales and Fantasies: the early childhood curriculum truths and their effects for seeing and assessing children. International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, 5 (1), 58-68.

Hughes, P., MacNaughton, G., & Smith, K. (2007) Early childhood professionals and children’s rights: tensions and possibilities around the United Nations General Comment No. 7 on Children’s Rights. International Journal of Early Years Education, 15 (2), 161-170.

MacNaughton, G., Hughes, P. & Smith, K. (2007) Rethinking approaches to working with children who challenge. International Journal of Early Childhood. 39 (1), 39-58.

MacNaughton, G. & Smith, K. (2001). Action research, ethics and the risks of practicing freedo