Event Title
Cross National and Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration
Location
Hart 114
Start Time
11-5-2017 10:30 AM
End Time
11-5-2017 10:45 AM
Description
This paper discusses the challenges and benefits of working with an international and interdisciplinary team of researchers studying the early childhood education workforce. This project began in 2014 and brought together feminist researchers from multiple locations across the globe who are engaged in understanding the work and well-being of the early childhood education workforce. We are interested in the lived realities of this work, which includes workers’ mental and physical health, the respect and esteem their work is given by the wider society, and the pay and conditions of that work within diverse cultures. It brings together researchers from Australia, England, Ireland and the USA and from Social Work, Sociology, Public Health, Psychology and Education. We began with the creation of a common ‘reference methodology’ – agreed methodological tools including both qualitative and quantitative data collection. The benefits and challenges continue to inspire and motivate us in this important work.
Cross National and Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration
Hart 114
This paper discusses the challenges and benefits of working with an international and interdisciplinary team of researchers studying the early childhood education workforce. This project began in 2014 and brought together feminist researchers from multiple locations across the globe who are engaged in understanding the work and well-being of the early childhood education workforce. We are interested in the lived realities of this work, which includes workers’ mental and physical health, the respect and esteem their work is given by the wider society, and the pay and conditions of that work within diverse cultures. It brings together researchers from Australia, England, Ireland and the USA and from Social Work, Sociology, Public Health, Psychology and Education. We began with the creation of a common ‘reference methodology’ – agreed methodological tools including both qualitative and quantitative data collection. The benefits and challenges continue to inspire and motivate us in this important work.
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