Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP150104534
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Early childhood educators as agents of intergenerational educational change. The project aims to shed light on how early childhood (EC) educators can address intergenerational educational disadvantage by raising aspirations for their own learning and for the children with whom they work. The project arises from a tension in the current reform agenda for the Australian EC sector. The goal is for all EC educators to be skilled, reflective professionals able to support children's learning, but many educators are from backgrounds of low educational aspirations and attainment. The project will use a mixed methods approach to investigate this tension. Australian and international career and workforce data will be used to examine characteristics of educators, supplemented by 40 case studies of educators at low qualification levels.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 06-2015
End Date: 12-2018
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $305,900.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Early Childhood Education (excl. Māori) | Education Systems | Education Policy | Sociology of Education
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Equity and Access to Education | Education and Training Systems Policies and Development | Children's/Youth Services and Childcare |
