Western Australian Institute for Educational Research 37th Annual Research Forum: Research for disruption: Making a difference University of Notre Dame, 1.00 pm to 6.30 pm, Saturday 6 August 2022 Forum 2022 Program Presentations on Saturday 6 August 2022 [Forum Invitation] [Abstracts]

The Forum activities are in The University of Notre Dame Australia's education building, the Tannock Hall of Education, corner of Cliff and Croke Streets, Fremantle. Consult your street directory for parking locations, or for public transport, note the close proximity to Fremantle Railway Station. For campus maps see [Fremantle Campus location] and select [PDF Map Fremantle].

The program given below is a draft subject to change. We estimate that the allocations of times for presenters will be finalised by about mid-evening Tuesday 2 August 2022. If you have a pressing need for a particular timing for your presentation, please advise by email to c.mcbeath@bigpond.com before end 1 August. [The initial draft containing 49 allocations may be reduced by cancellations for medical or other reasons. Cancellations (if any) will not be included, as this is an archival record of what occurred at the Forum on 6 August].

9.00-12.00	HDR and Undergraduate Workshops
1.00-2.10 Plenary session	Opening: WAIER President, Dr Sonja Kuzich Panel Presentation: Chaired by Dr Paul Gardner Professor Jeffrey Brooks, Associate Professor Glenn Savage, Gabbie Stroud and Dr Elizabeth Jackson-Barrett		LT 101
Time	Session presenters	Title	Room
2.20-2.45 Parallel 1	Amelia Ruscoe	Power plays in early childhood: Discursive impact in their first year of school in Western Australia	LT 101
	Jayde Conway, Elisha Jacobs-Smith, Saul Karnovsky, Sally Lamping, Samantha Owen	Yarning, discomfort, fatigue and institutional spaces	Room 201
	Felicity Baker	Mathematical problem solving: What does it mean to primary teachers?	Room 202
	Isaac Asante-Nimako	The Free Senior High School educational policy on quality in the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana	Computer Lab 203
	Veronica Gardiner and Wendy Cumming-Potvin	Disrupting assumptions about the shift to online teaching and learning in universities	Room 301
	Sandi Fielder and Chad Morrison	The importance of belonging during an internship: Disrupting traditional models of professional experience	Room 302
	Thai Vu, Subramaniam Ananthram and Sonia Ferns	Securing work placements: Challenges faced by international students	Computer Lab 303
2.45-3.10 Parallel 2	Pippa Chapman	Music activities in the home and beliefs towards the importance of music in early childhood development	LT 101
	Mary dos Santos, Wendy Cumming-Potvin and Libby Jackson-Barrett	Six cups of tea: Yarning, language use and the third space	Room 201
	Belinda Schmolke	Positive science and mathematics veteran teachers in Western Australia	Room 202
	Davida Aba Mensima Asante-Nimako	West African families' experiences and perspectives of the Australian education system: An ethnographic case study in WA	Computer Lab 203
	Ivan Kam	The effectiveness of flipped classroom approaches for adult learners in vocational education and training institutions	Room 301
	Louise Leonard	Professional learning: Motivation and the transfer of skills and concepts into the secondary classroom	Room 302
	Jian Zhao, Elaine Chapman, Stephen Houghton and David Lawrence	Perceived discrimination affecting Chinese international students' mental health while studying in Australia amidst COVID-19	Computer Lab 303
3.10-3.35 Parallel 3	Christine Robinson	Pondering about wondering: Investigating spirituality within early childhood	LT 101
	Ashah Tanoa	"Let's yarn about uni": Conversations around the Indigenous student university experience	Room 201
	Sarah Briggs, Lynette Vernon and Paula Mildenhall	Developing a conceptual framework for addressing the M in STEM, with the purpose of strengthening student confidence and abilities in mathematics	Room 202
	Yuniar Dwi Ansari Siregar	Indonesian TESOL returnee lecturers: An ecological and transdisciplinary identity study	Computer Lab 203
	Nancy Bonfiglio-Pavisich	The mentoring experiences of early career teachers in Australia	Room 302
	Katie Kumasaka	Disruptions to finding flow in online learning: The story of my doctorate journey	Computer Lab 303
3.35-4.00 Parallel 4	Xuyen Le	Early childhood education and care in Vietnam: An interpretivist study	LT 101
	Carly Steele, Graeme Gower and Sophie Benson	Initial teacher education students navigating the cultural interface	Room 201
	Keryn Sturrock, Amanda Woods-McConney and Dorit Maor	Science inquiry pedagogy in Western Australian upper primary and lower secondary classrooms	Room 202
	Ana Tankosic and Sender Dovchin	(C)overt linguistic racism: Eastern European background immigrant women in the Australian workplace	Computer Lab 203
	Richard Gordon, Wendy Cumming-Potvin and Sian Chapman	Technology-enhanced learning and the COVID 19 pandemic: Teaching and learning in a time of disruption	Room 301
	Jette Oksis	Online professional learning for teachers	Room 302
	Sandi Fielder, Felicity Baker, Kathryn Dehle, Alison Hilton and Chad Morrison	Communities of practice with a difference: Collaborative academic writing during disruption	Computer Lab 303
4.00-4.20	Coffee break
4.20-4.45 Parallel 5	Sinead Wilson	Understanding the integration of digital technologies into the educational practices of Western Australian Early Years Services	LT 101
	Anne Coffey and Shane Lavery	Keeping the at-risk early adolescent engaged in school: What works?	Room 201
	Jane Kirkham and Elaine Chapman	Motivational factors associated with Year 10 students' mathematics course choices according to gender and mathematics aspiration	Room 202
	Graeme Gower, Tetiana Bogachenko, Carly Steele and OCTE students	Shaping the On Country Teacher Education program through the voices of participants	Computer Lab 203
	Bri McKenzie, Julian Chen and Cindy Smith	What can we learn about effective stakeholder engagement from voices of the LGBTQ+ community?	Room 301
	Helen McCarthy	Auto/ethnography methodology: Evocative provocation understanding of others through self	Room 302
	Anna J. Griffin and Nicola F. Johnson	Is the Skills Framework for the Information Age fit for purpose in the Australian higher education cyber security curriculum?	Computer Lab 303
4.45-5.10 Parallel 6	Jane Merewether	Noticing soil in early childhood: Cultivating the arts of attention in the anthropocene	LT 101
	Meaghan Cunnington, Nicola F. Johnson and Henny Nastiti	Exploring a semi-immersive experiential program and the development of 21st century skills with early adolescent boys	Room 201
	Xiaofang Sarah Wang, Laura Perry, Anabela Malpique and Tobias Ide	Which key factors explain countries' mathematics performance in PISA?	Room 202
	Sonja Kuzich and Paul Gardner	Anxiety disrupts writing: Disrupting writer anxiety	Computer Lab 203
	Jia White, Sarah McGarry, Marita Falkmer, Melissa Scott and Melissa H. Black	Contributions to strength-based practices for students with autism in schools: A scoping review	Room 301
	Veronica Elizabeth Morcom	Mediating relational agency in a collaborative classroom: A sociocultural perspective	Room 302
	Natalie M. Warburton, Sarah J. Etherington, Garth L. Maker, Shu Hui Koh and Rebecca Bennett	Diversity in numbers: Developing quantitative skills and personal connection to discipline content	Computer Lab 303
5.10-5.35 Parallel 7	Linda Cranley	Enacting active and informed citizenship in the Foundation to Year 2 classroom	LT 101
	Kim Balnaves	Learning agency in online game spaces: What happens when middle school children play online and can exercise power?	Room 201
	Carol Carter	Innovative methods for applied drama and process drama in southern contexts	Computer Lab 203
	Lisa Paris	Teaching the Arts in testing times	Room 302
	Olivia Johnston	Investigating between-class ability grouping in Australian schools	Computer Lab 303
5.35-6.30 Sundowner	[WAIER Postgraduate Awards], [Early Career Award], [ACER WAIER Research Grant], [WAIER-Fogarty Foundation Postgraduate Student Prize], [WAIER Fellowship Award] and Raffle draw		Foyer

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