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		PROF Sue Grieshaber PhD, MEd, BEd, DipT Centre for Learning Innovation School of Early Childhood Profile Publications Research Teaching Contact
Profile Sue Grieshaber`s research interests include early childhood curriculum, policy, gender and families, with a focus on equity and diversity. She has published widely in a range of areas that reflect her research interests and co-edits the international, refereed online journal Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. She is on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Early Childhood, the Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education and is a consulting editor for the Early Childhood Research Quarterly. Sue has interests in a variety of theoretical perspectives including critical, feminist and postmodern theories and uses these in her research and teaching. She has strong international links and has taught, published and presented with a variety of colleagues from overseas universities.
Publications Books Ryan, S., & Grieshaber, S.(Eds.). (2005). Practical Transformations and Transformational Practices: Globalization, Postmodernism, and Early Childhood: Education Advances in Early Education and Day Care. Stamford, CT: JAI Press. Grieshaber, S. & Cannella, G. S. (Coordinadoras). (2005). Las identidades en la educación temprana: Diversidad y posibilidades. (Traduccion J. J. Utrilla). Fondo De Cultura Económica: México. (Grieshaber & Cannella edited book translated into Spanish in 2005) Grieshaber, S.(2004). Rethinking parent and child conflict. RoutledgeFalmer. Thorpe, K., Tayler, C., Bridgstock, R., Grieshaber, S., Skoien, P., Danby, S. & Petriwskyj, A. (2004). Preparing for School. Brisbane, Queensland: GOPRINT & Department of Education Training and the Arts. Grieshaber, S. & Cannella, G. (Eds.). (2001) Embracing identities in early childhood: Diversity and possibilities. New York: Teachers College Press. Recent Journal Articles Graham, L.J. & Grieshaber, S. (2008). Reading “Disability”: Interrogating paradigms in a Prism of Power. Disability & Society, 23(6), 557-570. Grieshaber, S.(2008). Interrupting stereotypes: Teaching and the education of young children. Early Education and Development, 19(3), 505 – 518. Grieshaber, S.(2006). Yesterday, today, tomorrow: Globalization and early childhood education in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Journal of Early Childhood, 5(2), 14-22. Ryan, S. K. & Grieshaber, S.(2005) Shifting from developmental to postmodern practices in early childhood teacher education. Journal of Teacher Education 56(1), 34-45. Ryan, S. K., & Grieshaber, S. (2004). It’s more than child development: Critical theories, research, and teaching young children. Young Children, 59 (6), 44-52. Recent Book Chapters Grieshaber, S.(2008). Marginalization, making meaning and mazes. In C. Genishi & A. Lin Goodwin (Eds.), Diversities in Early Childhood Education: Rethinking and Doing (pp. 83-101). New York: RoutledgeFalmer. Grieshaber, S.(2007). The sociology of childhood. In R. New and M. Cochran (Eds.). Early Childhood Education: An International Encyclopedia (Vol. 4, pp. 871-874). Greenwood Publishing Group. Grieshaber, S.(2007). Never certain: Research predicaments in the everyday world of schools. In J. A. Hatch (Ed.), Early Childhood Qualitative Research (pp. 147-165). New York: RoutledgeFalmer. Grieshaber, S.(2006). Equity issues in research design. In G. Mac Naughton, S. Rocco and I. Siraj-Blatchford (Eds.),Doing early childhood research: International perspectives on theory and practice. (Chinese language version). Beijing: Educational Science Publishing House. Grieshaber, S.& Ryan, S. K. (2006). Beyond certainties: Postmodern approaches and research about the education of young children. In B. Spodek & O. Saracho (Eds.).Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children(pp. 533-553). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. QUT e-Prints http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Grieshaber,_Susan.html
Research ARC and other research grants 2007-2009. Luke, A. & Grieshaber, S. ARC Discovery.Family literacy practices, pedagogy and achievement in year one: A quantitative sociological study. ($418,000). 2007-2008 . Diezmann, C. & Grieshaber, S.Understanding the Achievements and Aspirations of New Women Professors. Universities Australia grant (formerly AVCC). ($30,000). 2006- mid 2009. Grieshaber, S., Tayler, C., Thorpe, K., Englert, L. ARC Linkage: Industry Partner Department of Education and the Arts including 3 APAI scholarships. Predicting progress: A longitudinal study of the social behaviour, numeracy, and literacy of children in the Queensland preparatory trial. ($541,607). 2004-2002. Grieshaber, S. & Yelland, N. Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery. Becoming numerate with information technologies in early childhood education. ($122,000). 2004-2002. Grieshaber, S., Yelland, N., Matters, G. & Cook, T. Australian Research Council Linkage (Industry partner Education Queensland Assessment and New Basics Branch including 1 APAI scholarship). Beyond letters, numbers and screens: New basics, technologies, numeracy and early childhood. ($217,000).
Teaching Sue taught in before school and the early years of school contexts for fourteen years before moving to the tertiary sector. She has extensive undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience and has supervised PhD, Masters by Research and Honours theses to successful completion in a broad range of areas including policy studies, teachers enacting new curricula, child care workers, play, parent participation, leadership in early childhood education, and the social regulation of young children’s bodies in care settings.
Contact Details PROF Sue Grieshaber Professor of Early Years Education B Block Level 4 444 Queensland University of Technology Victoria Park Road Kelvin Grove Qld 4059 Phone: 0731383176 Fax: 0731383989 Email: s.grieshaber@qut.edu.au