Spencer Foundation Vision Grant awarded to MGSE Early Childhood Studies

Competitive Spencer Foundation Vision grant awarded to international research team to plan a large scale transformation research grant.

Professors of Early Childhood Studies, Nicola Yelland and Kylie Smith have been awarded a Spencer Foundation Vision grant as part of an international team of researchers. The $115,000,  6 month project entitled:  “Transforming the Discourse for Equity in Early Childhood Education: Reimagining Curriculum and Pedagogies and Young Children as Capable” will enable the research team to plan a 3-4 year project that will reimagine education systems for equity, to be submitted for Spencer Transformation funding in September.  The team has members from the Yale Child Study Centre, The Erikson Institute of Early Childhood in Chicago, Vanderbilt University and executives from the Carole Robertson Early Learning Centres in Chicago.  The multidisciplinary team of researchers from the U.S. and Australia will challenge existing models of early childhood teaching and notions of quality in early childhood education, and promote transformative pedagogies that position children, teachers, parents and communities as capable.

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