Biography
Dr Jane Page is a senior lecturer in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. She has worked in the early childhood field for fifteen years covering a range of roles both as a practitioner in early childhood services as well teaching in the University sector. Jane's research focuses on futures studies and early childhood education as well as on the topic of children's rights and citizenship. Her work on futures education has been twice recognised by L'Etˆ Verde: Associazione Culturale, a Rome-based nternational research organisation, who awarded her the Aurelio Peccei Prize in 1996 and 2001. Her book "Reframing the Early Childhood Curriculum. Educational Imperatives for the Future" (Routledge, 2000), examines the relevance of futurists’ and early childhood theorists’ thinking concerning children’s long term development alongside young children’s perspectives on their futures. Jane has just completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne that examined young children's capacity to enact citizenship as a practice of participation in their relationships with friends in early childhood settings and the role of emotions in this process. It examined the ways in which emotions and citizenship have been positioned in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) (1989) and specific concepts underlying developmental psychology, the new sociology of childhood, an ethics of care and post-structuralism and tests these perspectives against four-and-five-year-old children’s lived experiences of happiness, sadness,anger and being scared in their friendships at kindergarten. It concluded that an epigenetic framing of emotions and citizenship creates new opportunities for investigating citizenship for young children and that children’s perspectives should drive these considerations.
Research Expertise and International Linkages
Research Expertise
| Research Interest |
Country of Expertise |
| Curriculum; Children's rights; Children's voices; Teacher education - early childhood |
Australia |
| Children's understanding of time and empathy; Child abuse; Educational psychology |
Australia |
| Futures education; Curriculum theory and development |
Australia |
Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other
Awards
Qualifications
| Title |
Institution |
Date Awarded |
Abbreviation |
| Bachelor of Education |
University of Melbourne |
01-Mar-1989 |
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| Diploma of Teaching |
Institute of Early Childhood Development |
01-Mar-1985 |
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| Master of Education |
University of Melbourne |
01-Mar-1996 |
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| Doctor of Philosophy |
University of Melbourne |
01-Nov-2008 |
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Memberships
| Membership Type |
Membership Body |
Description |
Start Date |
End Date |
| Council |
Newman College Council Inc. |
Council member |
01-Jan-1994 |
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| Member |
MCPC Royal Children's Hospital Children's Voices in Hospital Committee |
Committee member |
01-Aug-2008 |
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| Council |
National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect |
Council member |
01-Oct-2007 |
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Other Awards
| Award Type |
Awarding Body |
Comments |
Date Awarded |
| Prize |
Aurelio Peccei Prize, LEta; Verde Associazione, Rome, Italy. |
|
30-Apr-2001 |
| Prize |
Aurelio Peccei Prize, LEta; Verde Associazione, Rome, Italy |
|
30-Apr-1996 |
| Other (Award) |
Alice Creswick and Sheila Kimpton Foundation Award |
Awarded by Australian Early Childhood Association |
30-Sep-1990 |
| Other (Award) |
Ada Mary a’Beckett Award of Excellence |
Awarded by School of Early Childhood Studies, Institute of Education, University of Melbourne. |
30-Mar-1985 |
| Other (Award) |
Victorian Multicultural Commission Victoria's Awards for Excellence in Multicultural Affairs |
This award is shared with two colleagues with Glenda MacNaughton and Merlyne Cruz |
30-Nov-2006 |
Government Research Classifications
Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications
Socio-Economic Objective Classifications
Grants and Contracts
Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.
Grants
| Title |
Role |
Funding Source |
Scheme |
Award Date |
| Associate Prof Hillevi Lenz Taguchi Ian Potter Conference Grant |
Chief Investigator |
THE IAN POTTER FOUNDATION |
Travel and Conference Grants |
01/10/2009 |
Publications
Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.
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