PhD theses currently supervised by members of CCD

The following PhD thesis titles are listed here with permission from respective research students. This is what our research students are currently working on:

Using a cultural-historical framework to show societal, institutional and personal influences on learning: a case study of an Australian early childhood community (Avis Ridgeway)
Foreign Languages in Preschool: Comparative Education in Australia and Colombia (Ana Mantilla)
Chinese Language Acquisition amongst preschool-aged children of immigrant families in Australia: Parental involvement and extracurricular education (Liang Li)
Theories and practices of learning in transformational educational. A case study. (Esme Capp)
Parental Education Values and Children's Developmental Pathways of the Hong Kong Community in Australia (Pauline Wong)
Exploring young children's everyday lives in three-generational families: A cultural-historical study of relations, transitions and transformations (Hilary Monk)
A study of fairy tales as a source of child development in early childhood education (Sue March)
The Dialectical Relations of Everyday life and School life of families in the city and in a rural community in Nuevo Leon, Mexico (Gloria Quinones)
Parent Participation in Bilingual Heritage Language Maintenance Activity (Robyn Babaeff)
A cultural-historical study of teachers experiencing and enabling engaged learning (Helen Grimmett)
Encounters between new migrant families and early childhood professionals in EC services in Australia: A sociocultural/poststructural analysis (Corine Rivalland)
Safety-risk intelligence in children (Susie O'Neill)
Vietnamese teacher education and new preschool practice: A socio-historical analysis (Hien Phan)
Comparative study on classroom teaching practices in pre-primary schools between Bangladesh and Victoria (Shaila Banu)
Risk adverse parenting styles and children's participation in the classroom (Rebecca Lewis)