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Dr Amelia Ruscoe

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Email: a.ruscoe@ecu.edu.au
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8315-5803

Amelia is a Course Coordinator and the Language and Literacy Coordinator in Early Childhood Studies for the School of Education.

Current teaching

  • LAN6120  - Language and Literacy: Birth-5 years
  • LAN6130  - Language and Literacy: 5-8 years
  • LAN2376  - English 2: Emergent literacy 4-6 years
  • AED6160  - Visual Arts and Music Education in Early Childhood

Background

Dr Amelia Ruscoe is an experienced educator and leader in early childhood education in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University with more than 25 years in school and university settings across QLD, NSW and WA. Her research and practice centres on the development of innovative ideas to support, extend and enhance the learning experience of young children, and emerging educators, in the ‘impact zone’ of transition to school. She is a published author and presents to local, national and international audiences of educators and academics. Her doctoral research explored education discourse, multiplicity of perspectives and affordances in early childhood education and was awarded the Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Award for best higher degree thesis 2021. Her dedication to making a substantial contribution to education has been fortified through involvement in a number of education research projects across the past 10 years including industry and university funded literacy and school transition projects.

Awards and recognition

  • 2021 - School of Education Research Medal
  • 2021 - Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Award for best higher degree thesis
  • 2108 - Susan Holland Scholarship
  • 2018 - Edith Cowan University Higher Degree by Research Scholarship
  • 2018 - Winner of the ECU School of Education e-Poster competition and People’s choice award
  • 2017 - Three-minute-thesis winner
  • 2012 - Academic Excellence Award Griffith University

Professional associations

  • School Curriculum and Standards Authority (2021). Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines Revision Research. Academic Expert Panel
  • CREC Committee (Centre for Research in Early Childhood)
  • Literacy Education Network WA (LENWA)
  • Early Childhood Australia (ECA)
  • Joondalup District Early Childhood Network
  • School Board (Springfield Primary School)
  • TRBWA Member

Research areas and interests

  • Children’s rights, agency and voice
  • Impact of pedagogical practices on school affordance in early childhood
  • Early childhood curriculum and policy
  • Early mark-making, motivation and emergence of writing
  • Dialogic drawing and visual mediation tools in research with children
  • School culture and culturally responsive pedagogies

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Edith Cowan University, 2021.
  • Master of Early Childhood Education, Griffith University, 2013.
  • Bachelor of Education, Queensland University of Technology, 1997.
  • Bachelor of Teaching (Primary), Queensland University of Technology, 1992.

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

2023

Journal Articles

  • Boylan, F., Barblett, L., Lavina, L., Ruscoe, A. (2023). Transforming transitions to primary school: using children’s funds of knowledge and identity. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023(Article in Press), 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2023.2291354.

Reports

  • Barblett, L., Ruscoe, A., Boylan, F. (2023). Transforming transitions to school: Project Report, January 2023. Edith Cowan University. Early Childhood Education Group.
  • Barblett, L., Ruscoe, A., Boylan, F. (2023). Transforming Transitions to School: Using Funds of Knowledge and Identity. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. Edith Cowan University. Early Childhood Research Group. https://doi.org/10.25958/n8qh-em74.

2022

Journal Articles

2021

Journal Articles

  • Ruscoe, A., Barblett, L., Barratt-Pugh, C. (2021). Discourses of power: Policy and curriculum demands in the first year of compulsory school. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2021(Article in Press), 15p.. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463949121990905.
  • Barratt-Pugh, C., Ruscoe, A., Fellowes, J. (2021). Motivation to Write: Conversations with Emergent Writers. Early Childhood Education Journal, 49(2), 223-234. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-020-01061-5.

2018

Journal Articles

  • Ruscoe, A., Barblett, L., Barratt-Pugh, C. (2018). Sharing power with children: Repositioning children as agentic learners. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 43(3), 63-71. https://doi.org/10.23965/AJEC.43.3.07.

2014

Reports

  • Fellowes, J., Barratt-Pugh, C., Ruscoe, A. (2014). Reflective practice with teachers of early writers 2014. Reflective practice with teachers of early writers. Perth WA. Edith Cowan University.

Research Projects

  • Transforming Transitions - Using students' social capital to recast transitions, Association of Independent Schools of WA, AISWA - Grant, 2020 ‑ 2025, $124,910.
  • Dialogic Drawing as a pedagogical tool to promote and monitor engagement in school and learning, Association of Independent Schools of WA, AISWA - Grant, 2024 ‑ 2025, $24,553.
  • Transforming Transitions 2- Building for children’s engagement and success at school, Association of Independent Schools of WA, AISWA - Grant, 2022 ‑ 2025, $173,994.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Associate Supervisor

  • Master of Education, Investigating critical literacy in upper primary years using dialogic teaching principles to explore metafictive devices in postmodern picturebooks

Completed Supervisions

No data available
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