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Child development and learning (2019) - eBook and book by Susanne Garvis; Sivanes Phillipson; Sharryn Clarke; Linda Harrison; Jane McCormack; Donna Pendergast

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Australian Early Development Census (AEDC). (2019). Early childhood. Commonwealth of Australia.
https://www.aedc.gov.au/early-childhood
Center on the Developing Child. (2007). InBrief: The science of early childhood development.
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/inbrief-science-of-ecd/
David Grubin Productions. (2012, May 1). PBS The secret life of the brain: The baby's brain [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/MS5HUDVNbGs
Diamond, A., & Whitington, V. (2015). Studying early brain development: Educators’ reports about their learning and its applications to early childhood policies and practices.
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 40(3), 11-19. https://search.informit.org/doi/epdf/10.3316/aeipt.208898
Garvis, S., Phillipson, S., Clarke, S., Harrison, L., McCormack, J., & Pendergast, D. (2019). Child development and learning.
Oxford University Press. (pp.v-xxxiii)
Gopnik, A. (2011, October 11). What do babies think [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/cplaWsiu7Yg
O’Connor, C., & Joffe, H. (2013). Media representations of early human development: Protecting, feeding and loving the developing brain.
Social Science and Medicine, 97, 297-306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.09.048

Alberta Family Wellness. (2013, October 19). How brains are built: The core story of brain development [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/LmVWOe1ky8s
Bick, J., & Nelson, C. A. (2016). Early adverse experiences and the developing brain.
Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews, 41, 177-196. https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2015.252
TED. (2011, November 30). Annie Murphy Paul: What we learn before we're born [Video].
Yamada, Y., Kanazawa, H., Iwasaki, S., Tsukahara, Y., Iwata, O., Yamada, S., & Kuniyoshi, Y. (2016). An embodied brain model of the human foetus.
Scientific Reports, 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep27893

Australian Early Development Census. (n.d.). Brain development in children.
https://www.aedc.gov.au/resources/detail/brain-development-in-children
Li, L., Wang, J., & Wu, J. (2012). A spatial model to predict the incidence of neural tube defects.
BMC Public Health, 12(1), 951-960. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-951
Rehealthify (2014, July 22). Neural tube defects: What you need to know [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/dbnvN3RTuzg

Bernard, K., Peloso, E., Laurenceau, J., Zhang, Z., &Dozier, M. (2015). Examining change in cortisol patterns during the 10-week transition to a new child-care setting.
Child Development, 86(2), 456-471. https://research.ebsco.com/c/ft5i7v/viewer/pdf/eaixjndvpj
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. (2014). Excessive stress disrupts the architecture of the developing brain: Working paper 3.
Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University. https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/working-paper/wp3
Prado, E. L. & Dewey, K. G. (2014). Nutrition and brain development in early life.
Nutrition Reviews, 72(4), 267-284. https://doi.org/10.1111/nure.12102
Sgro, M., & Mychasiuk, R. (2020). Playful genes: what do we know about the epigenetics of play behaviour?
International Journal of Play, 9(1), 25–38.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2020.1720139
University of California Television (2019, Dec 9). The Resilient Brain: Epigenetics, Stress and Lifecourse - Early Life Deprivation - Bruce McEwen [Video].
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAjKfVP5C30&t

National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. (2009). Young children develop in an environment of relationships (Working paper 1).
Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University.
Newman, L., Sivaratnam, C., & Komiti, A. (2015). Attachment and early brain development: Neuroprotective interventions in infant-caregiver therapy.
Translational Developmental Psychiatry, 3. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/attachment-early-brain-development/docview/1756571146/se-2

Boyd, L. (2015, December 16). After watching this, your brain will not be the same [Video].
Youtube. https://youtu.be/LNHBMFCzznE
Deans, J., Klarin, S., Liang, R., & Frydenberg, E. (2017). All children have the best start in life to create a better future for themselves and for the nation.
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 42(4), 78–86. https://doi.org/10.23965/AJEC.42.4.09
Kirk, G., & MacCallum, J. (2017). Strategies that support kindergarten children’s social and emotional development: One teacher’s approach.
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 42(1), 85-93. https://doi.org/10.23965/AJEC.42.1.10
Lawson, G. M., McKenzie, M. E., Becker, K. D., Selby, L., & Hoover, S. A. (2019). The core components of evidence-based social emotional learning programs.
Prevention science: The official Journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 20(4). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-018-0953-y
Paul, K. E. (2014). Baby play supports infants and toddlers social and emotional development.
Young Children, 69(1), 8-15.
Shanker, S (2021). Self-regulation: the early years.
The MEHRIT Centre. https://self-reg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/infosheet_The-Early-Years.pdf
Stonehouse, A. (2013). Supporting babies social emotional wellbeing.
National Quality Standard Professional Learning Program e-Newsletter No. 61.
https://www.acecqa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-11/SupportingBabiesSocialAndEmotionalWellbeing.pdf

Abbas, M., Hwang, G., Ajayi, S., Mustafa, G., & Bilal, M. (2021). Modelling and exploiting taxonomic knowledge for developing mobile learning systems to enhance children’s structural and functional categorization.
Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 2 (2021), 100007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2021.100007
Dörr, L., & Perels, F. (2019). Improving metacognitive abilities as an important prerequisite for self-regulated learning in preschool children.
International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 11(5), 449–459. https://doi.org/10.26822/iejee.2019553341
Herrman, P. A., French, J. A., DeHart, G. B., & Rosengren, K. S. (2013). Essentialist reasoning and knowledge effects on biological reasoning in young children.
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 59(2), 198-220. http://doi.org/10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.59.2.0198
Lemon, N., & Garvis, S. (2014). Encouraging reflective practice with future early childhood teachers to support the national standards: An Australian case study.
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 39(4), 89-94. https://doi.org/10.1177/183693911403900412.
Tsiakas, K., Barakova, E., Khan, J., & Markopoulos, P. (2020). BrainHood: Designing a cognitive training system that supports self-regulated learning skills in children.
Technology and Disability, 32(4), 219–228. https://doi.org/10.3233/TAD-200294.
Walsh, R., & Kemp, C. (2019). The effect of higher-order questioning on the complexity of gifted pre-schooler’s language.
The Australian Journal of Gifted Education, 28(1), 6-23. https://doi.org/10.21505/ajge.2019.0002

Harvard University. (n.d.). A guide to executive function.
Centre of the Developing Child. https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resource-guides/guide-executive-function/
Fleer, M. (2021). New worlds of play-based learning.
Every Child, 27(2), 16–18. https://search.informit.org/doi/epdf/10.3316/informit.082016671914914
Walker, S., Fleer, M., Veresov, N., & Duhn, I. (2020). Enhancing executive function through imaginary play: A promising new practice principle.
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 45(2), 114-126. https://doi.org/10.1177/1836939120918502

Deans, J., Klarin, S., Liang, R., & Frydenberg, E. (2017). All children have the best start in life to create a better future for themselves and for the nation.
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 42(4), 78–86. https://doi.org/10.23965/AJEC.42.4.09
Diamond, A., & Whitington, V. (2015). Studying early brain development: Educators’ reports about their learning and its applications to early childhood policies and practices.
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 40(3), 11-19. https://search.informit.org/doi/epdf/10.3316/aeipt.208898
Edwards, S. (2017). Play-based learning and intentional teaching: Forever different?
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 42(2), 4-11. https://search.informit.org/doi/epdf/10.3316/aeipt.215793
Fitzgerald, B. (2014, June 4). Improving early childhood development with words [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/y8qc8Aa3weE
Fleer, M., Veresov, N., Harrison, L., & Walker, S. (2017). Working with teachers’ pedagogical strengths: The design of executive function activities for play-based programs.
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 42(4), 47–55. https://doi.org/10.23965/AJEC.42.4
Williams, N. & Moore, S. (2021). The Role of a Selected Thinking Routine in the Development of Critical Thinking Skills in Preschool Students.
Caribbean Journal of Education, 43, 47-68. https://doi.org/10.46425/c034302b9859.

Harris, P. (2015). What children learn from questioning. Educational Leadership, 73(1), 24- 29.
https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/what-children-learn-from-questioning.
Katz, L. (2015). Distinctions between academic and intellectual goals for young children.
Exchange, 226, 18-20. https://research.ebsco.com/c/ft5i7v/viewer/pdf/s42xzgyucv
Leggett, N., & Ford, M. (2013). A fine balance: Understanding the roles educators and children play as intentional teachers and intentional learners within the Early Years Learning Framework.
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 38(4), 42-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/183693911303800406
Tayler, C., Cloney, D., & Niklas, F. (2015). A bird in the hand: Understanding the trajectories of development of young children and the need for action to improve outcomes.
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 40(3), 51-60.