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Student Projects

Thesis topics of current and past IEC research students:

IEC research students have engaged in research across a wide range of areas and using a variety of methodologies and theoretical approaches. Most staff have suggestions for areas of future research, and welcome the opportunity to discuss potential research topics with you.

  • Children, media and identity
  • Robotics as a tool for mathematical and metacognitive development
  • Young children's use of interactive technologies in the development of early fraction understandings
  • Computers in early childhood settings
  • Three-year-old children's music preferences and participation
  • Teachers' beliefs about emergent literacy in Singapore
  • Mothers' beliefs and children's theory of mind
  • The impact of the regulatory environment on quality of childcare and staff in children's services
  • An evaluation of parenting services
  • Gender and literacy in early childhood
  • Fathers and early childhood services
  • The discursive environment of early childhood education in NSW as constructed in the Sydney Morning Herald over the last century
  • The design of Australian preschool centres over the last century
  • Families' perceptions of family-centred service provision
  • The school experiences of children with Down Syndrome
  • Early childhood gifted and talented children
  • Managing change in early childhood children's services
  • Early childhood teachers and Reggio Emilia
  • Aspects of mathematical education and the transition to school

 

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