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Articles

  • Building and Sustaining a Culture of learning
    Preschool Matters Magazine, Term 1 2016
    Nicole Pilsworth, Jane Page and Collette Tayler, from the University of Melbourne explain the Victorian Advancing Early Learning Study which is proving to have positive impacts on educator practice, educational leadership and learning outcomes for children.
  • Building learning relationships with children
    Collette Tayler, Early Learning Review, June 2015
    The Victorian Advancing Early Learning (VAEL) Study is developing and testing a professional learning model focused on improving the quality of educator-child interactions in order to improve young children’s learning outcomes in their first four years of life.
  • The Victorian Advancing Early Learning (VAEL) Study
    Jane Page and Collette Tayler, Belonging Early Years Journal, Volume 4 Number 2, 2015, p37
    The study is conducted by researchers from the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne in partnership with Moonee Valley City Council, Hume City Council and Mission Australia. The research team – Professor Collette Tayler, Dr Jane Page, Nicole Pilsworth, Catherine MacBean and Isabel Brookes – is developing and testing a professional learning model specifically focused on improving the quality of educator–child interactions.

E4Kids: Effective Early Educational Experiences, or E4Kids, is the most extensive longitudinal study ever conducted into the impact and effectiveness of early childhood education and care in Australia.

Joseph Sparling's Abecedarian Approach: Article from The Sydney Morning Herald, May 2, 2014, about 3a in the NT.

Learning in the early years: Article from The Age, Jan 13, 2014, about 3a in WA.

​A Working Document on the Abecedarian Educational Program and its Probable Relationships to Child Outcome Behaviors: Sparling, J, 2011, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity: A Global Working Group, Chicago.