Education Research

Professor Alison Elliott is widely recognised for her leadership, research, development and policy work in early childhood care and education. She has particular expertise in young children’s development, learning and well-being, early literacy learning, digital technologies, curriculum and pedagogy, and early education policy and strategy.

Alison has extensive research, evaluation and consultancy expertise focusing on optimising development and learning in the first years of school, the prior to school years and in teacher education. These activities are geared to promoting practices that support and enhance children’s development, improve early learning environments and foster synergies and connectedness between communities and families and educational providers and organisations. All have the ultimate goal of improving developmental and educational opportunities and outcomes for children, building service, family and individual capacity, and strengthening community well-being.

Alison is editor of Every Child, Australia’s leading professional publication for early childhood practitioners, and has authored numerous academic and professional publications focusing on learning and development, ICT in education and early childhood care and education. Her most recent significant publication in early childhood education policy is: Early childhood education. Pathways to quality and equity (a whole issue of the Australian Education Review, No 50, 2006  Melbourne: ACER Press).