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Associate Professor Carmel Maloney

Associate Professor

Staff Qualifications

• Doctorate, Edith Cowan University .
• Master of Education, Murdoch University, 1990 .
• Bachelor of Education, Edith Cowan University, 1984 .
• Diploma of Teaching, Edith Cowan University, 1974 .
• Teachers Certificate, Graylands Teachers College, 1966 .

Research

Recent Research Grants

• Assessing the Impact of a Commercial Systematic Phonics Program on Teacher Knowledge, Attitude to Teaching, and Pre-Primary Student Progress,  Edith Cowan University,  ECU Industry Collaboration - Grant(**),  2010,  $25,000.
• Focused Intervention for Early Literacy Intervention,  Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations,  Grant(**),  2010,  $62,057.
• Community Partnerships in Action: Developing Positive Behaviour and Engagement Through the Early Learning Environment,  Edith Cowan University,  ECU Industry Collaboration - Grant(**),  2010,  $18,179.
• Focused Intervention for Early Literacy Intervention,  Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations,  Grant,  2009,  $77,571.
• An evaluation of the uptake and use by schools of the Kindergarten and Pre-primary Profile Package and recommendations for future directions,  Dept of Education & Training WA,  Grant,  2008,  $17,600.
• The Identification of Resources to Support Children Learning to Read in the Early Years of School,  Dept of Education & Training WA,  Grant,  2008,  $4,718.
• The Identification of Resources to Support Children's Social and Emotional Development,  Dept of Education & Training WA,  Grant,  2008,  $4,718.
• The Identification of Resources to Support Children Learning to Read in the Early Years of School,  Dept of Education & Training WA,  Grant,  2007,  $42,467.
• The 'health' of Australia's professions: Teaching, nursing and policing as effective professions,  Australian Research Council,  Grant - Linkage (Projects),  2007,  $11,182.
• The Identification of Resources to Support Children's Social and Emotional Development,  Dept of Education & Training WA,  Grant,  2007,  $42,467.
• An evaluation of the uptake and use by schools of the Kindergarten and Pre-primary Profile Package and recommendations for future directions,  Dept of Education & Training WA,  Grant,  2007,  $26,400.
• Social emotional development in the early childhood phase of schooling,  Dept of Education & Training WA,  Grant,  2005,  $43,500.
• The 'health' of Australia's professions: Teaching, nursing and policing as effective professions,  Australian Research Council,  Grant - Linkage (Projects),  2005,  $75,583.
• The 'health' of Australia's professions: Teaching, nursing and policing as effective professions,  Australian Research Council,  Grant - Linkage (Projects),  2004,  $88,942.

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Journal Articles

• Barblett, L., Barratt-Pugh, C., Kilgallon, P., Maloney, C., (2011), Transition from long day care to kindergarten: Continuity or not?. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood , 36(2), 42-49, Deakin West ACT 2600.
• Maloney, C., Konza, D., (2011), A case study of teachers' professional learning: Becoming a community of professional learning or not?. Issues in Educational Research, 21(1), 75-87.
• Barblett, L., Maloney, C., (2010), Complexities of assessing social and emotional competence and wellbeing in young children. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 35(2), 13-18, Australia.
• Konza, D., Maloney, C., Grafton, P., (2010), It takes two to talk: a focused intervention program for parents and children with language delays. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 5(6), 225-236, Champaign, USA.
• Kilgallon, P., Maloney, C., Lock, G., (2008), Early childhood teachers coping with educational change. Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 33(1), 23-29, Australia.
• Kilgallon, P., Maloney, C., Lock, G., (2008), Early childhood teachers' sustainment in the classroom. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 33(2), 41-54, Australia.

Research Student Supervision

Principal Supervisor

• Doctor of Philosophy,  Teacher-student Relationships In Primary Schools In Perth.
• Doctor of Philosophy,  The Sustainment Of Early Childhood Teachers In The Classroom..