Joce Nuttall

TL;DR: A survey of research from 1995 to 2004 into initial teacher education in Australia can be found in this paper, where an overview of the research is presented in terms of number and type of research projects, key research themes and topics, range of methodologies, general strengths and weaknesses, and key trends.

TL;DR: In this paper, a phenomenological study of thirteen newly-qualified teachers across their first two years of teaching and their sense of preparedness to teach was carried out, finding that they equated "being prepared" with "being knowledgeable" and described in embodied terms, rather than as knowledge held "in the head".

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of teacher perspectives on digital play in early childhood education is presented, where the authors argue that more professional development is needed to help teachers learn to use the technologies with children.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider how particular discourses have come to dominate early childhood education (ECE) policy in Indonesia and highlight the internal contradictions of each of these discourses and the ways in which they exist in tension with one another, arguing that these tensions both reflect and construct early childhood service provision.

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of formative interventions was conducted to identify and address systemic tensions that were confounding leaders' attempts to realise a central object of activity in their work: the development of their staff in order to enhance children's learning.