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                  WAIER, SAIER and ACER Summer Research

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                  • 11 April 2022
                  Held in March 2022, this Summer Research webinar includes presentations by Associate Professor Peter Wright, Professor Barry Down and Dr. Christine Cunningham. Link for the individual presentations https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bxnm_JRV7_wAOBQBAXUvgV47HRz6j4uM?usp=sharing See the below article for all readings relevant to this qualitative methodologies webinar…
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                  Critical qualitative research/ethnography: Selected reading list.

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                  • 9 April 2022
                  A reading list selected and compiled by Barry Down (Murdoch University), suggesting some critical qualitative research/ethnography essentials.
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                  Looking at the child: The invisible scars of domestic and family violence

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                  • 27 April 2021
                  Experiences of domestic and family violence can result in negative psychological, physical, and behavioural impacts on the child, and negative effects on their cognitive development, and social and emotional development and functioning.
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                  Educating tomorrow’s women*: Ovulatory-menstrual health literacy as a lifelong skill

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                  • 12 April 2021
                  A crowded Health & Physical Education curriculum results in insufficient time to teach girls ovulatory-menstrual health literacy skills.The ovulatory-menstrual cycle can be used as a personal health monitor, and is of equal significance to a beating heart and breathing lungs.
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                  Teachers are expected to put on a brave face and ignore their emotions. We need to talk about it

                  Teachers are expected to put on a brave face and ignore their emotions. We need to talk about it.

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                  • 11 March 2021
                  In doctoral research, I followed pre-service teachers throughout their course. I found there exists an invisible rule book that defines what teachers can and cannot do with their emotions.
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                  Recognising and respecting the right of all children to play

                  Recognising and respecting the right of all children to play

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                  • 25 November 2020
                  The significance of play deserves recognition and respect by all stakeholders in children’s lives. Play is recognised as a right of all children in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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                  Botanical Literacies in Early Childhood

                  Botanical Literacies in Early Childhood

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                  • 25 November 2020
                  The development of botanical literacy is essential for children to form caring and sustainable beliefs and behaviours about plants and the earth.
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                  Emotionless, malleable little ornaments: Is this our image of children?

                  Emotionless, malleable little ornaments: Is this our image of children?

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                  • 25 November 2020
                  The representation of children matters. When children are represented – whether, for example, in film and television, or on social media – this is not without consequence.
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