Early childhood educators as agents of intergenerational educational change

该项目旨在阐明早期儿童(EC)教育工作者如何通过提高对自己的学习和与之共事的儿童的渴望来解决代际教育劣势。该项目源于澳大利亚EC部门当前改革议程中的紧张局势。我们的目标是让所有的欧共体教育工作者成为有技能、有反思能力的专业人员，能够支持儿童的学习，但许多教育工作者的教育抱负和成就都很低。该项目将使用混合方法来调查这种紧张关系。将使用澳大利亚和国际职业和劳动力数据来考察教育工作者的特征，并辅之以40个低资历水平教育工作者的案例研究。

The project aims to shed light on how early childhood (EC) educators can address intergenerational educational disadvantage by raising aspirations for their own learning and for the children with whom they work. The project arises from a tension in the current reform agenda for the Australian EC sector. The goal is for all EC educators to be skilled, reflective professionals able to support children's learning, but many educators are from backgrounds of low educational aspirations and attainment. The project will use a mixed methods approach to investigate this tension. Australian and international career and workforce data will be used to examine characteristics of educators, supplemented by 40 case studies of educators at low qualification levels.