DipTeach, BEd, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Contact details for Dr Kym Macfarlane
Research expertise
- Working with children in Early Childhood settings; reconceptualising Early Childhood Education; designing innovative programs for students involved in flexible learning and Post-structuralist research
Publications
- Macfarlane, K. (in press) Understanding reason in policy reform: Engaging "problematic" families, International Journal of Inclusive Education.
- Macfarlane, K. (in press) Navigating a treacherous game: Conceptualising parental engagement in contemporary Queensland schooling, British Journal of Sociology of Education
- Macfarlane, K. (2008). Playing the game: Examining parental engagement in schooling in postmillennial Queensland, Journal of Education Policy.
- Macfarlane, K. and Cartmel, J. (2008). Playgrounds of Learning: Valuing competence and agency in birth to three year olds. Australian Journal of Early Childhood
- Macfarlane, K. and Cartmel, J. (2007). Circles of Change revisited. The Loop, Queensland Health and Community Services Training Council.
- Macfarlane, K., Cartmel, J., and Maher, C. (2007). Circles of Change: Innovation approaches to field education. Every Child, 13 (2), 27.
- Lewis, T., Macfarlane, K., Noble, K. and Stephenson, A. (2006). Crossing borders and blurring boundaries: Early childhood practice in a non-western setting. International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, 38 (2), 23-35.
- Macfarlane, K. and Noble, K. (2006) Fractured identities:Exploring engagement and disengagement in the process of lifelong learning, International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, vol.4, no. 1, pp. 63-76.
- Macfarlane, K., Noble, K., Kilderry, A., and Nolan, A. (2005). Developing skills of thinking otherwise and critical reflection. In K. Noble, K. Macfarlane, and J. Cartmel (Eds). Circles of change: Challenging orthodoxy in practitioner supervision (pp. 11-20). Frenchs Forest: Pearson.
- Noble, K., and Macfarlane, K. (2005). Description of the reconceptualised practicum pilot program. In K. Noble, K. Macfarlane, and J. Cartmel (Eds). Circles of change: Challenging orthodoxy in practitioner supervision (pp. 31-39). Frenchs Forest: Pearson.
- Noble, K., Macfarlane, K., and Cartmel, J. (2005). An alternative model. In K. Noble, K. Macfarlane, and J. Cartmel (Eds). Circles of change: Challenging orthodoxy in practitioner supervision (pp. 22-29). Frenchs Forest: Pearson.
- Noble, K., Macfarlane, K., and Cartmel, J. (2005). In the real. In K. Noble, K. Macfarlane, and J. Cartmel (Eds). Circles of change: Challenging orthodoxy in practitioner supervision, (pp. 42-54). Frenchs Forest: Pearson.
- Noble, K., Macfarlane, K., and Cartmel, J. (EditorsEds.). (2005). Circles of change: Challenging orthodoxy in practitioner supervision. Melbourne: Pearson Publishing.
- Noble, K., Macfarlane, K., Kilderry, A., and Nolan, A. (2005). Fields of practice as discursive projects. In K. Noble, K. Macfarlane, and J. Cartmel (Eds). Circles of change: Challenging orthodoxy in practitioner supervision (pp. 2-10). Frenchs Forest: Pearson.
- Macfarlane, K. (2004). Recognising parent fatigue. Australian Perspectives on Educational Leadership, 14 (8), 1-2. Macfarlane, K. and Lewis, T. (2004). Child care ? human services or education: a genealogical approach. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 5 (1), 51-67.
- Macfarlane, K., Noble, K., and Cartmel, J. (2004). Pedagogy in the nursery: Establishing practitioners partnerships in high quality long day care programs. Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 29 (4), 38-44.
- Noble, K., Macfarlane, K. and Osmond, J. (Eds). (2005). Children in diverse contexts: A practice approach. Sprint Print. Pearson Australia.