Professor Bridie Raban conducts research and development in the field of Early
Childhood Education. Bridie is a Senior Research Fellow in the Australian Council for
Educational Research’s (ACER) Teaching, Learning and Leadership research program and a
Professorial Research Fellow (Early Childhood) at the Melbourne Graduate School of
Education. 

Originally based in the UK, where she was Professor of Primary Education (Early Years) at
Warwick University, Bridie arrived in Australia in 1995 to take up the inaugural
Mooroolbeek Chair of Early Education Childhood Studies at the University of Melbourne.
This appointment saw Bridie become the first early childhood professor in Victoria and
only the second in Australia. 

While in Australia, Bridie was seconded (1999-2000) to the federal government department
of education (then DETYA) as their first Research Fellow for a year. During this time
Bridie worked with the OECD, completing the Country Note for Denmark, which involved
travelling throughout that country visiting services provided for children before they
entered school. 

Bridie has raised in excess of $4 million in research funds while at the University of
Melbourne, and is currently a Chief Investigator there of an ARC Linkage Grant “The Young
Learners’ Project”, following the early literacy development of 350 children aged 4, 5,
and 6 years-old as they move into school. 

Bridie has published in excess of 150 publications including books and monographs,
journal articles, research reports, chapters to books and international encyclopaedias.

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Reading Recovery: A systemic approach to literacy intervention (with Janet Scull) (2011)
 
Assessment for Learning and Development in the Early Years: A discussion paper to inform the development of a Framework for the Assessment and Reporting of Children’s Learning 0 – 5 years (with C Taylor and K Ishimine) (2011)
 

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Assessment for learning: Documentation and planning for the EYLF (with Jenny Barber and Sharon Paul Smith) (2011)

Planning and observation are at the heart of any early years setting, and this straight-to-the-point...

 

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Discovery play: Play in the early years (with Sheila Riddall-Leech) (2011)

Discovery play involves children in exploring a range of natural materials to encourage them to...

 

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Outdoor play: play in the early years (with Sheila Durant) (2011)

This book is full of ideas for new and exciting outdoor play, whatever the weather....

 

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