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Citations
7653
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5876
National Ranking
423

Overview

Sue Dockett is affiliated with Charles Sturt University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, particularly focusing on education. Their research emphasizes early childhood education and development, education systems and policy, and children's rights and participation. Additional areas of interest include youth education and societal dynamics, teacher education and leadership studies, innovative education and learning practices, and indigenous and place-based education.

The scientist has published in several prominent venues, with multiple contributions to the European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, International Journal of Early Childhood, Policy Futures in Education, and The Australian Educational Researcher.

Recent publications demonstrate a diverse range of research topics and include:

  • Young children's assent and dissent in research: agency, privacy and relationships within ethical research spaces (2022) in European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
  • Parental Experiences of Belonging within the Preschool Community (2021) in International Journal of Early Childhood
  • Methodological and ethical challenges in cross-language qualitative research: the role of interpreters (2021) in European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
  • Invisible transitions: Transitions to school following different paths (2021) in Australasian Journal of Early Childhood
  • Professional linkages at the transition to school: Boundaries and linked ecologies (2020) in Policy Futures in Education

Sue Dockett frequently collaborates with a known group of co-authors. These include Bob Perry, Jóhanna Einarsdóttir, Björn Rúnar Egilsson, Maja Højslet Schürer, and Carmen Huser, reflecting ongoing partnerships in their research endeavors.

The main fields of study for this researcher are categorized under social sciences, with a strong concentration in education. Subfields also cover sociology and political science, human factors and ergonomics, social psychology, and clinical psychology.

Best Publications

  • Making Meaning: Children's Perspectives Expressed through Drawings.

    Johanna Einarsdottir;Susan Dockett;Bob Perry

  • Programming and Planning in Early Childhood Settings

    Leonie Arthur;Bronwyn Beecher;Elizabeth Death;Sue Dockett

  • Transitions to School: Perceptions, Expectations and Experiences

    Sue Dockett;Bob Perry

  • Starting school : effective transitions

    Sue Dockett;Bob Perry

  • Researching with children: Ethical tensions

    Susan Dockett;Johanna Einarsdottir;Bob Perry

  • Participatory Research with Children and Young People

    Susan Groundwater-Smith;Susan Dockett;Dorothy Bottrell

  • trusting children's accounts in research

    Sue Dockett;Bob Perry

  • Play and pedagogy in early childhood: Bending the rules

    Susan Dockett;Marilyn Fleer

  • Starting School Perspectives of Australian Children, Parents and Educators

    Susan Dockett;Bob Perry

  • Researching with Young Children: Seeking Assent

    Susan Dockett;Bob Perry

  • Readiness for school: a relational construct.

    Susan Dockett;Bob Perry

  • Researching with children: insights from the Starting School Research Project

    Susan Dockett;Bob Perry

  • Who's Ready for What? Young Children Starting School

    Sue Dockett;Bob Perry

  • Young children's decisions about research participation: opting out

    Susan Dockett;Johanna Einarsdóttir;Bob Perry

  • What makes a successful transition to school? Views of Australian parents and teachers

    Susan Dockett;Bob Perry

  • Young children's access to powerful mathematical ideas

    Bob Perry;Susan Dockett

  • Starting School: What Do the Children Say?

    Sue Dockett;Bob Perry

  • 'You Need to Know How to Play Safe': children's experiences of starting school

    Susan Dockett;Bob Perry

  • Balancing methodologies and methods in researching with young children

    Susan Dockett;Johanna Einarsdottir;Bob Perry

  • Promoting children’s informed assent in research participation

    Sue Dockett;Bob Perry;Emma Kearney

  • Continuity of learning: a resource to support effective transition to school and school age care

    Susan Dockett;Bob Perry;Aline-Wendy Dunlop;Johanna Einarsdottir

Frequent Co-Authors

Bob Perry
Bob Perry Charles Sturt University
Linda Harrison
Linda Harrison Charles Sturt University
Marilyn Fleer
Marilyn Fleer Monash University
Margaret H. Vickers
Margaret H. Vickers Western Sydney University
Lynn Kemp
Lynn Kemp University of Sydney
Jennifer Sumsion
Jennifer Sumsion Charles Sturt University

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