Poor childhood conditions, such as exposure to poverty and stunting, are associated with long-term disadvantages to health, education, social adjustment and earnings.
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Two years of high-quality preschool is one of the most effective strategies we have to change the trajectories of children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
To combat childhood obesity, we need to start from day one.
Government funding of childcare is seen as something that helps get mums back into work, instead of setting children up for learning before they start school.
Research has found a relationship between pretend play and a child’s developing creativity, understanding of others and social competence with peers.
Adults who had a low birthweight or were undernourished as young children are more likely to experience high blood pressure and obesity.
Two students – one black and one white – with the same math and reading achievement could have very different likelihoods of being identified as gifted.
President Obama’s message has put issues around standardized testing back in the news. Here’s what scholars have been saying.
New research shows shared music-making with toddlers may have benefits above and beyond those of reading.
The reorganisation of federal ministerial portfolios this week moved early childhood education and care from social services to education. This is a good thing.
Labour’s 2015 manifesto aims to improve life for children and it suggests that one effective means of achieving that aim is to invest in early years’ provision. The claim is that a child’s language development…
Many of the Productivity Commission’s proposals derive from assumptions that the funding of these services should ensure minimal interference, with a classic, market-based model for meeting “demand”.
Families and friends share memories all the time; “You’ll never guess…”, “How was your day?”, and “Do you remember when…” are rich daily fodder. Sharing memories is not only a good way to debrief and reminisce…
Last year in an open letter to the prime minister and the leader of the opposition, early childhood employers and peak bodies joined forces to ask for a commitment to early learning. They warned the political…
The problem with Australia’s population ageing is not that there are too many older people – it’s that there are not enough young people to support them. That presents many challenges to Australia’s continued…
Tony Abbott is spending this week in North East Arnhem Land, part of his long-held hope “to be not just the Prime Minister but the Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs”. We asked our experts: what stories…
As the school summer holidays beckon, families will be seeking out places to visit with their children, including museums, art galleries and science centres. It may be a way of keeping older children occupied…
A recent report from the Sutton Trust is the latest in a line of recommendations for family policy to focus on promoting secure attachment between parents and their children. What puzzles me is why the…
Every few months a story appears about the declining speech and language skills of children arriving in primary school. The epithet “the daily grunt” was invented by one newspaper to capture the lack of…
The coalition has placed a series of new plans on the table with regard to childcare and early years education. Most eye-catching is the new “tax-free childcare” scheme: from September 2015, for every…
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Program Head of Early Childhood Studies, University of Guelph-Humber
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at Ontario Institute for the Study of Education (OISE) and Senior Policy Fellow at the Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto
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Atkinson Chair of Early Child Development and Education and Director of the Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto
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Professor of Psychology, Western University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal
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Associate Professor, Flinders University
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University
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Senior Lecturer, Early Childhood Education; Post Doctoral Fellow, Manna Institute, University of New England
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Performance) and Professor of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
