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53
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162

Marilyn Fleer publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marilyn Fleer sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 608 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Marilyn Fleer D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marilyn Fleer sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 53 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Australian Laureate Fellow

Overview

Marilyn Fleer is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and has made significant contributions to the fields of social sciences and psychology, particularly focused on education and child development. Their work spans a range of subfields including education, developmental and educational psychology, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and human factors and ergonomics.

Their main research topics cover:

  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Child Therapy and Development
  • Science Education and Pedagogy
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Innovative Education and Learning Practices

Marilyn Fleer has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Work like a girl: Redressing gender inequity in academia through systemic solutions," 2021, Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice
  • "Increasing Girls' STEM Engagement in Early Childhood: Conditions Created by the Conceptual PlayWorld Model," 2021, Research in Science Education
  • "Early Childhood Science Education from 0 to 6: A Literature Review," 2021, Education Sciences
  • "Science Concept Formation During Infancy, Toddlerhood, and Early Childhood: Developing a Scientific Motive Over Time," 2022, Research in Science Education
  • "Engineering PlayWorld-a Model of Practice to Support Children to Collectively Design, Imagine and Think Using Engineering Concepts," 2020, Research in Science Education

Their frequent co-authors include Prabhat Rai, Glykeria Fragkiadaki, Liang Li, Elin Eriksen Ødegaard, and Anne Suryani.

Marilyn Fleer's work has appeared regularly in several publication venues, notably:

  • Learning Culture and Social Interaction
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Research in Science Education
  • European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
  • Early Years Journal of International Research and Development

In addition to journal articles, they have authored books published by Springer Nature and Cambridge University Press, including "Cultural-Historical and Critical Psychology" (2020) and "Technologies for Children" (2023).

Recognition of their research includes being awarded the Australian Laureate Fellow in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Early Learning and Development: Cultural-historical Concepts in Play

    Marilyn Fleer;Mariane Hedegaard

  • Early Childhood Education: Society and Culture

    Angela Anning;Joy Cullen;Marilyn Fleer

  • Play and pedagogy in early childhood: Bending the rules

    Susan Dockett;Marilyn Fleer

  • 'Conceptual Play': foregrounding imagination and cognition during concept formation in early years education

    Marilyn Fleer

  • Supporting Scientific Conceptual Consciousness or Learning in ‘a Roundabout Way’ in Play‐based Contexts

    Marilyn Fleer

  • Early Childhood Curriculum: Planning, Assessment, and Implementation

    Claire McLachlan;Marilyn Fleer;Susan Elizabeth Edwards

  • Pedagogical positioning in play - teachers being inside and outside of children's imaginary play

    Marilyn Fleer

  • Understanding the Dialectical Relations Between Everyday Concepts and Scientific Concepts Within Play-Based Programs

    Marilyn Fleer

  • Children's Development as Participation in Everyday Practices across Different Institutions.

    Marilyn Fleer;Mariane Hedegaard

  • Early Childhood Education as an Evolving 'Community of Practice' or as Lived 'Social Reproduction': researching the 'taken-for-granted'

    Marilyn Fleer

  • Perezhivanie as a theoretical concept for researching young children’s development

    Nikolai Veresov;Marilyn Fleer

  • Play and Learning in Early Childhood Settings: International Perspectives

    Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson;Marilyn Fleer

  • Early Learning and Development: Learning and development as cultural practice

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  • The demands and motives afforded through digital play in early childhood activity settings

    Marilyn Fleer

  • Identifying teacher‐child interaction which scaffolds scientific thinking in young children

    Marilyn Fleer

  • Working Technologically: Investigations into How Young Children Design and Make During Technology Education

    Marilyn Fleer

  • The Cultural Construction of Child Development: Creating Institutional and Cultural Intersubjectivity.

    Marilyn Fleer

  • Science for children

    Marilyn Fleer

  • Scientific Playworlds: a Model of Teaching Science in Play-Based Settings

    Marilyn Fleer

  • A Cultural-Historical Perspective on Play: Play as a Leading Activity Across Cultural Communities

    Marilyn Fleer

  • Research in Science Education

    Marilyn Fleer;Jill Rona Robbins

  • Affective Imagination in Science Education: Determining the Emotional Nature of Scientific and Technological Learning of Young Children

    Marilyn Fleer

  • DAPcentrism: Challenging developmentally appropriate practice

    Marilyn Fleer

  • International Handbook of Early Childhood Education

    Marilyn Fleer;Bert van Oers

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Edwards
Susan Edwards Australian Catholic University
Anne Edwards
Anne Edwards University of Oxford
Linda Harrison
Linda Harrison Charles Sturt University
Susan Danby
Susan Danby Queensland University of Technology
Richard Gunstone
Richard Gunstone Monash University
Jonathan Tudge
Jonathan Tudge University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Sue Dockett
Sue Dockett Charles Sturt University
Douglas H. Clements
Douglas H. Clements University of Denver
Julie Sarama
Julie Sarama University of Denver
Andrea Reupert
Andrea Reupert Monash University

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