Abstract The Commonwealth-funded Project Good Start was a longitudinal study of children
during their year before school and the first year of school, involving preschool centres and …

One of the fundamental principles in early childhood education is the importance of play to
children's learning and development. The commitment to play can be traced through theory …

THIS PAPER REPORTS CONCLUSIONS about the quality of early childhood education and
care (ECEC) services from E4Kids, a large-scale longitudinal study of three types of ECEC …

This article presents an analysis of how the discursive regimes of advanced liberalism,
knowledge economies and lifelong learning have produced the conditions of possibility for …

Using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children (LSAC), this is the first
analysis for Australia to evaluate the impact of attendance at pre-school programs on …

The role of literacy during the pre-school years is argued from evidence found in the
international research literature and provides the starting point for exploring the beliefs and …

THIS PAPER DISCUSSES the individual, family, household and area level characteristics
associated with preschool attendance for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians (aged …

This paper examines how literacy is defined and enacted by teachers in early childhood
programmes pointing to the differing ways views of early literacy impact practice. It is argued …

The aim of the research reported here was to investigate why a percentage of students
experience continued difficulty in literacy learning while participating in Reading Recovery. It …

Those who have finished high school and/or obtained non-school qualifications experience
a range of positive outcomes throughout their lives. Despite these benefits being likely to …