Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Education


   Dr. Janet Moles

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Position Lecturer in Early Childhood Education
Email j.moles@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Education
Phone +61 3 522 72687
Campus Geelong
Location Waurn Ponds
Teaching responsibilities Unit chair ECE403
Unit Chair ECE307
Unit Chair ECE212
Unit Chair ECP227
Unit Chair ECP127
Research interests Ethnic minority student teachers
Children of ethnic minority
Learner identities
Current research projects Living and learning across different paradigms: Young children’s learner identities
Awards New Horizons for Women study award for research 2000
Conferences Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me: making sense of different pedagogies in early childhood. Australian Women and Gender Studies Conference, UNSW, Sydney, December 2012.

(Re)Viewing the landscape outside the box: Increasing student success by socioculturally appropriate support. New Zealand Conference for Research in Early Childhood Education, January 2012, Wellington, NZ
NZARE, Wellington 2004: Looking through the kaleidoscope to find the con in the context of early childhood teacher education.
NZARE, Auckland 2003: Teacher education meets the three little pigs.
NZARE, Palmerston North 2002: Never mind the quality, feel the width: Values and priorities with achievement motivation for women cross-cultural learners.
NZARE, Christchurch 2001: The hitch-hiker’s guide to cross-cultural motivation.
NZARE, Waikato 2000: One size does not fit all: Supporting the achievement motivation of women cross-cultural learners.
TEFANZ, Wellington 2002: Method or madness? The path to successful undergraduate research.
TEFANZ, Auckland 2001.
Invited lecturer, Teachers Refresher Course Committee, 2001: The child’s voice in assessment: The hoarse whisperer.
Diversity conference: Whitireia Community Polytechnic 2002: Roles, goals and achievement motivation for women cross-cultural learners.
Publications

Moles, J 2013, Wonsa-ponna time. His stories, her stories and my stories: Stories about teaching and learning.Childforum.com

Moles, J., Tanielu-Dick, I., Atiga-Anderson, V., Sauvao, L., Fuimaono, H., Ryan, S., de Rose, S., Ferguson, J., Fuli-Makaua, L., & Browne, V. (2012). (Re)Viewing the landscape outside the box: Increasing student success by socioculturally appropriate support. New Zealand Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 15, 151-165.

Moles, J., de Rose, S. (2012). (Re)Viewing the landscape inside and outside the box. NZ Research in Education conference, Wellington

Moles, J. (2012). Putting the cog into cognitive: The theory behind teaching practice. www.ChildForum.com.

Moles, J. (2012). Learning to think, learning to learn: Super teaching for super success. www.ChildForum.com.

Moles, J. (2011). It is what you do, and the way that you do it: Working smarter, not harder for best practice. www.ChildForum.com.

Moles, J. (2009). Myths, mysteries and mates: The experiences of culturally diverse early childhood student teachers. New Zealand Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 9, 145-152.

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22nd April 2013