Children’s Lifeworlds in a Global City: Melbourne

Clare Bartholomaeus is a Research Fellow in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her key research interests include gender, diversity, and children/young people. She has published widely in the areas of education, gender studies, health, and family studies. She is author of the books Transgender people and education (with Damien Riggs, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Home and away: Mothers and babies in institutional spaces (with Kathleen Connellan, Clemence Due, and Damien Riggs, Lexington Books, 2021).  Nicola Yelland is the Professor of Early Childhood Studies in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her teaching and research interests are related to transformative pedagogies and the use of new technologies in school and community contexts. She hasworked in East Asia and examined the culture and curriculum of school settings. Nicola’s work engages with educational issues with regard to varying social, economic and political conditions and thus requires multidisciplinary perspectives. Nicola effectively links research with practice so that her audience are able to critically explore the nexus of theory and practice.

• Chapter 1: Introducing Children’s Lifeworlds in the Global City of Melbourne.- Chapter 2 The Context of Children’s Lifeworlds in Melbourne.- Chapter 3 The Structure of Schooling in Melbourne: Timetabling and Routines.- Chapter 4: Pedagogical Encounters: Teaching and Learning in Melbourne Classrooms.- Chapter 5 School Engagement and Orientations to Educational “Success” in Melbourne.- Chapter 6 School Belonging and Wellbeing: Everyday Stories and Practices in Melbourne.- Chapter 7 Screens, Play, Sport, and Homework: Children’s Out-of-School Activities in Melbourne.