Kylie Smith
University of Melbourne
65 Papers
262 Citations
Kylie Smith is an academic researcher from University of Melbourne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Early childhood & Early childhood education. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 59 publications. Previous affiliations of Kylie Smith include Deakin University & Royal Children's Hospital.
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Papers
Early childhood professionals and children’s rights: tensions and possibilities around the United Nations General Comment No. 7 on Children’s Rights
TL;DR: The authors argue that when early childhood staff use their expertise in young children's physical, social and cognitive development to facilitate consultations with young children, they are likely to reinforce the view that young children are unable to form and express their own views.
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The Routledge International Handbook of Young Children's Rights
Jane Murray,Beth Blue Swadener,Kylie Smith +2 more
- 28 Oct 2019
Abstract: Written to commemorate 30 years since the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), The Routledge International Handbook of Young Children’s Rights reflects upon the status of the rights of children aged 0–8 years around the world, whether they are respected or neglected, and how we may move forward. With contributions from international experts and emerging authorities on children’s rights, Murray, Blue Swadener and Smith have produced this highly significant textbook on young children’s rights globally. Containing sections on policy, along with rights to protection, provision and participation for young children, this book combines discussions of children’s rights and early childhood development, and investigates the crucial yet frequently overlooked link between the two. The authors examine how policy, practice and research could be utilised to address the barriers to universal respect for children, to create a safer and more enriching world for them to live and flourish in. The Routledge International Handbook of Young Children’s Rights is an essential resource for students and academics in early childhood education, social work and paediatrics, as well as for researchers, policymakers, leaders and practitioners involved in the provision of children’s services and paediatric healthcare, and international organisations with an interest in or ability to influence national or global policies on children’s rights.
Contesting early childhood professional identities: A cross-national discussion:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore constructions of early childhood practitioners and how they disconnect and reconnect in a global neo-liberal education policy context, and explore how they connect and disconnect in a different context.
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Edu-capitalism and the governing of early childhood education and care in Australia, New Zealand and the United States
TL;DR: The authors examines the effects of edu-capitalism and neoliberal education policies across Australia, New Zealand and United States to disrupt hegemonic policy logic based on neutral human capita, and concludes that edu capitalism and education policies can be used together to disrupt the global education system.
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Leading otherwise: using a feminist-poststructuralist and postcolonial lens to create alternative spaces for early childhood educational leaders
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the characteristics of the field including the feminized nature of early childhood education require a different conceptual framework than what currently exists, which is difficult to find a space to reflect on the meaning(s) of leadership for contemporary early childhood educators that is not informed by existing (and often Western masculine) knowledge about who a leader.