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Overview

Jennifer Sumsion is affiliated with Charles Sturt University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on early childhood education, encompassing several intersecting fields within the social sciences and psychology.

The main fields of study covered in Jennifer Sumsion's work include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Their subfields of research delve deeper into areas such as:

  • Education
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Philosophy
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science

The core topics addressed in their publications focus on:

  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Education Practices and Challenges
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Jennifer Sumsion has contributed to research published in the following venues:

  • Review of Education
  • Early Childhood Education Journal
  • Australasian Journal of Early Childhood

Recent publications include the following works:

  • "Intentional teaching in early childhood education: A scoping review," 2021, Review of Education
  • "Using metaphor to illuminate quality in early childhood education," 2020, Australasian Journal of Early Childhood
  • "Professionalization and Professionalism: Quality Improvement in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)," 2023, Early Childhood Education Journal

Frequent collaborators in Jennifer Sumsion's research include:

  • Frances Press
  • Susan Grieshaber
  • Susan Krieg
  • Felicity McArdle
  • Susan Irvine

Best Publications

  • Identifying generic skills through curriculum mapping: a critical evaluation

    Jennifer Sumsion;Joy Goodfellow

  • Reflection: can we assess it? Should we assess it?

    Jennifer Sumsion;Alma Fleet

  • Becoming, being and unbecoming an early childhood educator: a phenomenological case study of teacher attrition☆

    Jennifer Sumsion

  • Insider perspectives on developing Belonging, Being & Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia

    Jennifer Sumsion;Sally Barnes;Sandra Cheeseman;Linda Harrison

  • Negotiating Otherness : A male early childhood educator's gender positioning

    Jennifer Sumsion

  • Male teachers in early childhood education: Issues and case study

    Jennifer Sumsion

  • Interrogating 'Belonging' in Belonging, Being and Becoming: the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia

    Jennifer Sumsion;Sandie Wong

  • Rethinking early childhood workforce sustainability in the context of Australia's early childhood education and care reforms

    Tamara Cumming;Jennifer Sumsion;Sandie Wong

  • Early Childhood Teachers' Constructions of Their Resilience and Thriving: A Continuing Investigation.

    Jennifer Sumsion

  • Promoting Early Childhood Teacher Professionalism in the Australian Context: The Place of Resistance

    Marianne Fenech;Jennifer Sumsion;Wendy Shepherd

  • Early Childhood Teachers and Regulation: Complicating Power Relations Using a Foucauldian Lens

    Marianne Fenech;Jennifer Sumsion

  • Critical Reflections on the Experiences of a Male Early Childhood Worker.

    Jennifer Sumsion

  • Transformative Pathways: Field-based Teacher Educators' Perceptions.

    Joy Goodfellow;Jennifer Sumsion

  • Identifying predictors of retention and professional wellbeing of the early childhood education workforce in a time of change

    Karen Thorpe;Karen Thorpe;Elena Jansen;Victoria Sullivan;Susan Irvine

  • The corporatization of Australian childcare Towards an ethical audit and research agenda

    Jennifer Sumsion

  • Infants, Family Day Care and the Politics of Belonging.

    Tina Stratigos;Benjamin Bradley;Jennifer Sumsion

  • Caring and Empowerment: A teacher educator's reflection on an ethical dilemma

    Jennifer Sumsion

  • The regulatory environment in long day care : a 'double-edged sword' for early childhood professional practice

    Marianne Fenech;Jennifer Sumsion;Joy Goodfellow

  • From Whitlam to economic rationalism and beyond: a conceptual framework for political activism in children's services.

    Jennifer Sumsion

  • Rereading Metaphors as Cultural Texts: A Case Study of Early Childhood Teacher Attrition.

    Jennifer Sumsion

  • Sustaining the Employment of Early Childhood Teachers in Long Day Care: A Case for Robust Hope, Critical Imagination and Critical Action.

    Jennifer Sumsion

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda Harrison
Linda Harrison Charles Sturt University
Karen Thorpe
Karen Thorpe University of Queensland
Sharynne McLeod
Sharynne McLeod Charles Sturt University
Sue Dockett
Sue Dockett Charles Sturt University

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