PUBLICATIONS
Books
Unearthing Why: Stories of Thinking and Learning with Children
Unearthing Why is a collection of stories offering a distinct and hopeful outlook for the future of education. Each chapter invites you to consider the complexity and beauty of children's capacity to learn, think and be together. Jill McLachlan and Clare Britt's retellings of their experiences learning alongside children in prior-to-school and primary school-based contexts will gently, and compellingly, invite you to join them in considering the deep purposes of education - questioning the 'whys', just below the surface, that inform 'what' and 'how' you teach.
The beautiful new 2020 edition of Unearthing Why: Stories of Thinking and Learning with Children can be ordered from Early Childhood Australia:
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The Curious Teacher: https://thecuriousteacher.com/shop/buy-book/
Art & Wonder: Young Children and Contemporary Art
How do young children bring meaning to and make meaning from contemporary art within a museum context? What potential might there be for creative reciprocity between artists and young children? Can we create space for intellectually rich, thoughtful, deep and complex early childhood visual arts pedagogy for the very youngest children in Early Childhood Education and Care settings and museum and gallery contexts? In what ways can a sense of belonging be created for infants and toddlers (and their families) in large, public cultural institutions?
These questions and more form the foundations for Art & Wonder: Young Children and Contemporary Art - a collaborative research and pedagogy project between the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Mia Mia Child and Family Study Centre (Mia Mia), and the Department of Educational Studies (DoES), Macquarie University.
This book shares the findings of the Art & Wonder: Young Children and Contemporary Art pilot project through the voices of the children, their families, their teachers, MCA artist educators and the research team.
The Art & Wonder: Young Children and Contemporary Art publication, is co-authored by Dr Clare Britt (Honorary Lecturer, Macquarie University) and Amanda Palmer (Early Learning Coordinator, Museum of Contemporary Art) with contributions from fellow research team members Wendy Shepherd, Janet Robertson, Dr Belinda Davis, Nicole Barakat, Cara MacLeod and Brook Morgan.
Theses
PhD Thesis:
Britt, C. (2019). Hopeful lines of flight: possibilities for reimagining pedagogy in the early years of primary school in Australia. Charles Sturt University.
Honours Thesis:
Britt, C. (2002). Within the Borderlands: An Anthology of Beginning Early Childhood Teachers in Primary Schools. Macquarie University.
Articles
Bell, D., Britt, C., Langdon, M., Palmer, A., & Rusholme, S. (2019). Early years, art learning, and museums: principles and practices. International Art in Early Childhood Research Journal, 1(1), 1-13. [7].
https://artinearlychildhood.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ARTEC_2019_Research_Journal_1_Article_7_Bell_Britt_Langdon_Palmer_Rusholme.pdf</p>
Britt, C (2018). Dancing with Pipilotti: Young Children’s Encounters with Contemporary Art. Pedagogy + Magazine , 4, 26-29. https://semannslattery.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/dancing-with-pipilotti.pdf</p>
Britt, C. (2013). Loss, Failure, and an awful reputation: A response to Jonathan Silin. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. 32-38. 2012001450
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2304/ciec.2014.14.1.32
Britt, C. & Rudolph, S. (2013) 'All our Hands Would Tell about the Community': Re-imagining (im)possible teacher/student subjectivities in the early years of primary school, International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 4(2), 35-52. 2013000184
https://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/download/338/373
Britt, C. and Sumsion, J. (2003). Within the Borderlands: Beginning Early Childhood Teachers in Primary Schools. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 4 (2) (Invited submission, Lead article)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2304/ciec.2003.4.2.3
Book Chapters
Hayden, J., Mevawalla, Z., Britt, C., & Palkhiwala, S. (2013). Complexity theory, early childhood development and social justice: Creating a space for children's voices. In C. Basu & V. Anderson-Patton (Eds.), Children and childhood: Practices and perspectives. In R. Fisher, L. Howard & K. Montieth (Series Eds.), Probing the boundaries (pp. 217-227). Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9781848881792/BP000020.xml
Britt, C. & Rudolph, S. (2012). 'As I grow up I learn more and more from other people': Opening up spaces to re-imagine knowledge in a primary school through pedagogical documentation. In A. Fleet, C. Patterson, & J. Robertson (Eds.). Conversations: Behind early childhood pedagogical documentation (21-44). Mt Victoria, NSW: Pademelon.
https://www.pademelonpress.com.au/conversations-behind-pedagogical-documentation.html<br>
Fleet, A. & Britt, C. (2011). Seeing spaces, inhabiting places: Hearing school beginners. In D. Harcourt, B. Perry & T.Waller (Eds). Young children's perspectives: Ethics, theory and research. Routledge