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Victoria Whitington is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Education Futures at the University of South Australia, and an adjunct senior member of the UniSA Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion. She worked for many years teaching and researching in the early childhood field, and has been Lady Gowrie Child Centre Board Chair since 2000. She is currently South Australia's Presiding Member of the the Child Development Council.
Whitington’s research has three major elements. (1) children’s wellbeing, particularly children who live in low SES circumstances, including Aboriginal, diverse and refugee communities. She has an ongoing partnership with Communities for Children, the Salvation Army and the Schools... Read more
About me
Victoria Whitington is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Education Futures at the University of South Australia, and an adjunct senior member of the UniSA Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion. She worked for many years teaching and researching in the early childhood field, and has been Lady Gowrie Child Centre Board Chair since 2000. She is currently South Australia's Presiding Member of the the Child Development Council.
Whitington’s research has three major elements. (1) children’s wellbeing, particularly children who live in low SES circumstances, including Aboriginal, diverse and refugee communities. She has an ongoing partnership with Communities for Children, the Salvation Army and the Schools Ministry Group that has involved a series of funded projects to develop ‘The Wellbeing Classroom’, an approach now employed in over 50 classrooms across the state, and recently comprised an evaluation of a whole school wellbeing approach, with accompanying publications, reports and refereed journal papers. (2) Whitington has conducted research concerned with creating rich learning environments for young children via educator inquiry to reimagine early childhood, and has collaborated with external teams to progress state government and cross-state funded projects in this area, as well as publishing with partners, and research students. (3) Whitington has worked on early childhood workforce issues arising from the 2007 Australian National Quality Agenda These funded projects arose as part of the implementation of the federal and state government policies regarding improving workforce qualifications, and the pathways to them, including in-service programs for those in the early childhood field to become four year degree teacher qualified.
In sum, Whitington’s research, which has been published in key national and international journals has made a substantial contribution to how educators, teachers and education settings support children’s wellbeing, to supporting how teachers and educators reimagine early years learning environments, and to workforce planning policy implementation.
About me
About me
Doctor of Philosophy Flinders University
Master of Art University of Victoria
Graduate Diploma of Community and School South Australian College of Advanced Education
Bachelor of Education Flinders University
Children developing in context intellectually, socially and emotionally, children's development in long day childcare, culture and early childhood education, early childhood education workforce development in VET and Higher Education, learning and teaching in Higher Education.
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Wellbeing in Early Childhood Settings, Salvation Army (SA) Property Trust, 24/02/2021 - 31/07/2022
The history of early childhood education in South Australia – innovators, educators, crusaders: milestones identified in historical context, History Trust of South Australia, 03/02/2020 - 31/12/2020
Wellbeing Classroom Evaluation – Phase 2, Salvation Army (SA) Property Trust, 25/01/2019 - 30/12/2019
Investigating the Reconceptualising of Early Childhood Education in South Australia, SA Dept for Education and Children's Services, 01/10/2017 - 14/12/2018
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
Year | Output |
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2020 |
Open access
9
5
5
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2018 |
Open access
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2017 |
Open access
1
3
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2015 |
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2009 |
35
25
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Year | Output |
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2017 |
Open access
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Year | Output |
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2020 |
Open access
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2016 |
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2015 |
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2014 |
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Year | Output |
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2024 |
Open access
46
|
2024 |
Open access
5
5
1
|
2023 |
Open access
1
|
2022 |
Open access
7
2
3
|
2022 |
Open access
2
3
2
|
2020 |
Open access
9
5
5
|
2017 |
Open access
|
2017 |
Open access
1
3
|
2015 |
Open access
4
|
2015 |
3
4
|
2015 |
Open access
1
|
2014 |
2
|
2014 |
Open access
9
|
2014 |
7
5
|
2013 |
|
2009 |
35
25
|
2009 |
6
5
|
2008 |
Open access
1
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Year | Output |
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2019 |
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2013 |
Open access
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2012 |
Open access
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2010 |
Open access
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Year | Output |
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2023 |
Open access
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2020 |
Open access
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2018 |
Open access
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2014 |
Open access
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2014 |
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2013 |
Open access
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Research
Children developing in context intellectually, socially and emotionally, children's development in long day childcare, culture and early childhood education, early childhood education workforce development in VET and Higher Education, learning and teaching in Higher Education.
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Charles Darwin University | AUSTRALIA |
Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
Gowrie SA | AUSTRALIA |
Kent State University | UNITED STATES |
Private Individual | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Georgia | UNITED STATES |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Invited panellistMedia Centre for Education Research Australia |
2019 |
ChairLady Gowrie Child Centre - Gowrie Board |
2017 |
MemberEuropean Early Childhood Education Research Association |
2017 |
MemberEarly Childhood Australia |
2017 |
ChairLady Gowrie Child Centre - Gowrie Board |
2016 |
ChairLady Gowrie Child Centre - Gowrie Board |
2015 |
Member, Approvals, Registration and Regulation CommitteeEducation and Early Childhood Services Registration and Standards Board of SA |
2015 |
ChairLady Gowrie Child Centre - Gowrie Board |
2014 |
Member, Approvals, Registration and Regulation CommitteeEducation and Early Childhood Services Registration and Standards Board of SA |
2014 |
ChairLady Gowrie Child Centre - Gowrie Board |
2013 |
Member, Approvals, Registration and Regulation CommitteeEducation and Early Childhood Services Registration and Standards Board of SA |
2013 |
ChairLady Gowrie Child Centre - Gowrie Board |
2012 |
Member, Approvals, Registration and Regulation CommitteeEducation and Early Childhood Services Registration and Standards Board of SA |
2012 |
ChairLady Gowrie Child Centre - Gowrie Board |
2011 |
ChairLady Gowrie Child Centre - Gowrie Board |
2010 |
Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student LearningOffice for Learning and Teaching, Department of Education and Training, Australian Government |
2010 |
Children's cognitive, social and emotional development, learning, early brain development, research with young children,culture and development, professional pathways and learning for early childhood educators,the impact of stress and trauma on children's capacity to learn and participate in group settings.
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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Concepts of social identity and well-being of pasifika students and engagement in the primary school level in New Zealand schools | Current |
Managing life in two homes: what are the routines, relationships and experience of primary school children from separated homes and their parents and teachers within the school environment | Current |
What does respect for children mean in light of children's rights? perspectives of preschool children's parents and educators in an early childhood program in South Australia | Current |
Fostering children¿s capacity for empathic reasoning: the role of community of inquiry in an empathic pedagogy | Completed |
It's not just low wages and status : retention issues facing Australian childcare services | Completed |
Religiously responsive pedagogies in an Australian preschool: a narrative inquiry based on Muslim parents' and non-Muslim educators' perspectives and experiences | Completed |
Toddler educator identity and enactment of social and emotional learning: a narrative inquiry | Completed |