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DrLlewellyn Wishart

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education

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  • Senior Lecturer
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education
  • +61 3 522 78915 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Translating Academic Skills to Professional Skills (Pathways from Uni to becoming an early childhood teacher)
  • Nature-based, outdoor and ecological learning
  • Outdoor play, physical activity and movement
  • Design of naturalised early childhood outdoor spaces
  • Integral theory and embodied pedagogies
  • Early childhood movement, music and dance pedagogy
  • Contemplative education

    Projects
  • DUPPP Academic Literacies Project (BECE) 2012-2013.
  • Gowrie Victoria, The Harbour Family & Children's Centre Outdoor Learning Space - How It Works? 2012.
  • Greening Child Care Spaces Project 2013 - Nursery Gardening Industry Association (NGIA), Mission Early Learning Services, Fleming's Nurseries & CREFI.
  • Ballarat Kindergarden Project 2014-2015 - City of Ballarat, ECKA, Fleming's Nurseries, Uniting Care Ballarat & Deakin University.
  • Rural Children's Centre Greening 2014-2019.
  • Documenting a Sensory Garden-Nature Play Development Project - Collaborative project with Primary school in SW Victoria 2017-2018.
  • The use of curriculum and relational pedagogy in pre-service training to support early childhood teachers when engaging in nutrition-behaviour conversations (BECE) School of Education (SoE), Faculty of Arts-Education; School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences (SENS) and the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), Faculty of Health, Deakin University 2023-2024.
  • Being in blue space - places for learning in the early years 2022-2025.

GRANTS

  • TENDER
    Supporting access to and retention in early childhood teaching degrees through an employment-based mode
    1 Jan 2025 - 1 Jan 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    DETVic Tender - Department of Education and Training Victoria - $4,160,512.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    City of Greater Geelong - Climate Change Professional Development - Research Proposal - Project 1
    10 Jun 2022 - 30 Jun 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    City of Greater Geelong - $35,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Early Childhood Professional Practice Partnerships.
    14 Jan 2022 - 15 Jan 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    DETVic Grant - Research - Department of Education and Training Victoria - $463,208.00
  • GRANT
    The Ballarat KinderGardens Project: The research, evaluation and professional development components - Forrest Hill application
    19 Jun 2014 - 31 Dec 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    Foundation of Graduates in Early Childhood Studies - $18,000.00