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Co-Created Psychosocial Resources to Support the Wellbeing of Children from Military Families: Usability Study Open

Marg Rogers, Margaret Sims, Philip Siebler, Michelle Gossner, Einar Thorsteinsson · 2025

It is well known that early education and care lay the foundation for learning and wellbeing; however, resources available to support children with different life experiences can vary. For example, resources available to support early chil…

Moving Beyond Mosaic: Co-Creating Educational and Psychosocial Resources Using Military Children’s Voices Open

Marg Rogers, Margaret Sims, Philip Siebler, Michelle Gossner, Einar Thorsteinsson · 2025

The Mosaic approach has been effectively used to gather children’s voices in early childhood settings using a children’s voices framework, although research translation using these voices is less reported. This paper bridges this gap by re…

Silencing Children About ‘Forbidden Topics: Discussing Prevention Education in Australian Early Childhood Open

Margaret Sims, Michael A. Lawson, Marg Rogers · 2024

Over three decades ago the United Nations developed the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC; United Nations, 1989) which was aimed at ensuring children were positioned as active agents in their lives, capable of having a voice and…

Toxic Leadership and Vicarious Bullying Open

Margaret Sims · 2024

In this paper I argue that the workplace culture cemented in place by the presence of a leader espousing neoliberal leadership beliefs creates a space where subordinates receive free reign to also bully: called vicarious bullying. We see “…

Review of: "Support for Campus Censorship" Open

Margaret Sims · 2024

Review of: "The equality agenda: a clear case of smoke and mirrors" Open

Margaret Sims · 2023

The Bold and The Backlash: When Marginalised Voices are Heard in Neoliberal Land Open

Marg Rogers, Margaret Sims, Wendy Boyd · 2022

The hierarchy in our educational institutions and services often mirror societal attitudes towards power and whose voices are privileged or ignored. Historically, those with power feel uncomfortable when marginalised voices are heard. Ther…

Pedagogical Leadership among Directors and Deputies in Early Childhood Settings in Australia, Finland and Norway Open

Leena Halttunen, Margaret Sims, Marit Bøe, Karin Hognestad, Johanna Heıkka , et al. · 2022

Pedagogical leadership in this chapter is understood as a broad concept enacted within early childhood education (ECE) centres. Involving several actors, who can vary according to the country or local context. The extent to which the distr…

Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Government Policies Relating to the Early Childhood Sector Across Ten Countries Open

Antje Rothe, Mary Moloney, Margaret Sims, Pamela Calder, Doreen Blyth , et al. · 2022

Night patrols:Mobilising collective efficacy in Indigenous communities Open

John Scott, Margaret Sims, Trudi Cooper, Elaine Barclay · 2021

On one level, motor vehicles might represent the possibility of unfettered freedom, escape (from government authority) and autonomy through providing work and leisure opportunities. On another level, in remote places, ‘hybridised’ and ‘Ind…

Women Academics in the World of Neoliberal, Managerial Higher Education Open

Margaret Sims · 2021

In my last years in academia, I have experienced the intimidating impact of pettybureaucracy and top-down micromanagement that typify managerialism in higher education today. In this paper I use my own experiences to reflect on why this is…

Inter-married families: hybridising teaching-for-two-languages and parenting in regional Australia Open

Margaret Sims, Elizabeth Ellis, Vicki Knox · 2019

Children learn language through engaging in a rich language environment. However, some parents make a decision to rear their children bilingually/plurilingually, in a context where the community around them does not use the home language (…

Working as early childhood centre directors and deputies – perspectives from Australia, Finland and Norway Open

Leena Halttunen, Margaret Sims, Manjula Waniganayake, Fay Hadley, Marit Bøe , et al. · 2019

Tämä tutkimus, joka tarkasteli päiväkodin johtajien ja apulaisjohtajien johtajuutta, on toteutettu Australiassa, Suomessa ja Norjassa. Teoreettisesti tutkimus sijoittuu uusliberalistiseen ajatteluun, jonka Sims (2017) kuvaa laajenevasti mu…

Working as early childhood centre directors and deputies – perspectives from Australia, Finland and Norway Open

Leena Halttunen, Margaret Sims, Manjula Waniganayake, Fay Hadley, Marit Bøe , et al. · 2019

Terrorism and Early Childhood: Our Role on the Slippery Slope of Racism Open

Margaret Sims · 2019

In this paper I argue that early childhood professionals have a key role in providing learning opportunities that aim to prevent children placing their feet on the beginning of the slippery slope of racism. At the bottom of this slippery s…

Developing Gratitude and Filial Piety: The Role of Chores Open

Shi Li, Margaret Sims · 2018

<p>Whilst decades of research in the global north has identified authoritative parenting as producing the better child outcomes, and there is a growing amount of literature from countries such as China, suggesting the contrary: that …

The challenge of isolation in immigrant family language maintenance in regional Australia Open

Elizabeth Ellis, Margaret Sims, Vicki Knox · 2018

The critical factor determining whether children of immigrants become bilingual is strong family and community support for, and use of, the home language(s) alongside English (Pauwels, 2005). It is well accepted that children of immigrant …

Infant and toddler educare: A challenge to neoliberalism Open

Margaret Sims, Elise Alexander, Mari Nislin, Karma Pedey, Lavinia Tausere Tiko , et al. · 2018

We contend that the conventions, practices and philosophies underpinning working with infants and toddlers provide an alternative way of viewing early childhood work, and such a perspective may well help to challenge the ‘wicked problem’ o…

Short-term International Experience (STIE) and Students’ Understanding of Quality Early Childhood Service Provision Open

Margaret Sims, Yukiyo Nishida · 2017

Exposing pre-service teachers to international professional experiences through a short-term visiting programme serves to challenge their understandings of good quality practice through disturbing assumptions and expectations previously fo…

What Discourses Relating to the Purpose of Early Childhood Are Shaping the Work of Early Childhood Practitioners in Three Different Contexts: UK, Bhutan and Fiji? Open

Margaret Sims, Elise Alexander, Karma Pedey, Lavinia Tausere-Tiko · 2017

We explore the way dominant political discourses are perceived to influence developing professionalisation of early childhood in three contexts. The UK is strongly influenced by the neoliberal agenda which positions managerialism, bureaucr…

Young children's understandings and experiences of parental deployment within an Australian Defence Force family Open

Marg Rogers, Margaret Sims, Tanya Hathaway, Sue Elliott · 2017

Military deployment is considered a stressful period for families (Palmer, 2008), typically lasting three to nine months for Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel. To date, insufficient research has been conducted concerning children wh…

Childcare Teachers' Attitudes toward the Integration of Care and Education in Korea Open

Soyeon Park, Sungeun Yang, Margaret Sims · 2017

THIS STUDY EXPLORES KOREAN childcare teachers' attitudes toward the integration of care and education and the primary issues related to such integration. Ninety-three childcare teachers (91 females and two males) residing in the Seoul metr…

Neoliberalism and early childhood Open

Margaret Sims · 2017

Over 30 years ago, Freire warned of the dangers of neoliberalism and Chomsky today sees this as the greatest threat to democracy. Education is particularly targeted by the neoliberal state because potentially, as educators, we can teach ch…

We’re going on a bear hunt: Reconciling neoliberalism and postcolonialism in Pacific early childhood Open

Margaret Sims, Lavinia Tiko · 2016

Indigenous peoples around the world are struggling to create their own, unique early childhood system that reflects their cultural values and supports their dream of raising their children to proudly wear their own cultural identity. In th…

Working with children with special needs in Finnish kindergartens: Professionals and/or specialists? Open

Mari Nislin, Maiju Paananen, Laura Repo, Nina Sajaniemi, Margaret Sims · 2016

The aim is to investigate the links between job satisfaction of Finnish early childhood professionals (ECPs) and the appreciation they receive for their work, and how these are associated with their competence to work with children with di…

Children's experiences of social exclusion: what is it like living in a slum in Kampala? Open

Margaret Sims, Teddy Nagaddya, Florence Nakaggwa, Charles Kivunja, David Ngungutse , et al. · 2016

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Occupational well-being and stress among early childhood professionals: the use of an innovative strategy to measure stress reactivity in the workplace Open

Mari Nislin, Nina Sajaniemi, Margaret Sims, Eira Suhonen, E. F. Maldonado , et al. · 2016

The aim of this study was to examine early childhood professionals’ (ECPs) work engagement, burnout and stress regulation in integrated special day-care groups. The participants consisted of 89 ECPs from 21 integrated special day-care grou…

Crime prevention and young people: Models and future direction for youth night patrols Open

Trudi Cooper, John Scott, Elaine Barclay, Margaret Sims, Terence Love · 2016

This article presents a typology of different approaches to social crime prevention adopted by Australian Indigenous youth night patrols. Research that informed this typology occurred in a specific context, but generic observations about y…

Social Justice, Children’s Needs and Rights: An Approach to Planning Open

Margaret Sims · 2015

Commonly, planning for children involves comparing what they know against a curriculum or learning frameworkwhich identifies what they should know. Early childhood educators are then expected to create learning opportunitiesto help fill th…

Work Demands and Resources, Stress Regulation and Quality of Pedagogical Work Among Professionals in Finnish Early Childhood Education Settings Open

Mari Nislin, Nina Sajaniemi, Eira Suhonen, Margaret Sims, Risto Hotulainen , et al. · 2015

This study examined early childhood professionals’ (ECPs) stress regulation and the demands and resources they encounter at work, and considered how these factors are associated with the quality of pedagogical work in daycare. The particip…

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