Gunn, A. C. (2025). Economics trumps child rights: How the 2024 E&E Regulations Review frames teacher qualification issues and why we should be worried. Early Childhood Folio. Advance online publication. doi: 10.18296/ecf.1156
Journal - Research Article
Curtis, A., & Gunn, A. C. (2025). Early childhood education and learning. In J. Abbiss, T. Wendt Samu & M. Thrupp (Eds.), The professional practice of teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand. (7th ed.) (pp. 129-148). Melbourne, Australia: Cengage Learning.
Chapter in Book - Research
Gaches, S., Gunn, A., Gaffney, M., & Carvalho, R. (2024). Refocusing care as central to teaching within ECE. Early Childhood Folio, 28(1), 13-17. doi: 10.18296/ecf.1137
Journal - Research Article
Gaches, S., Gaffney, M., Carvalho, R., Curtis, A., & Gunn, A. (2024, February). The care-FULL work of early childhood professionals. Verbal presentation at the Performance of the Real Research Theme Interdisciplinary Conference: Performing Care and Carelessness, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Gunn, A. C. (2024). Gender expansive teaching in early childhood education: Learning from parents and children to grow responsive and respectful institutions for every-body. Proceedings of the 32nd European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) Annual Conference. Retrieved from https://2024.eeceraconference.org
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Gunn, A. C., Carvalho, R., Gaches, S., & Gaffney, M. (2024). Influencing teacher learning with narratives of care-full teaching. Proceedings of the 32nd European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) Annual Conference. A16. Retrieved from https://2024.eeceraconference.org
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Konieczko, C., Kroeger, J., Gunn, A. C., & Oleskiewicz, D. (2024). Gender schema for genderqueer childhoods: Reinterpreting gender now. Proceedings of the 32nd European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) Annual Conference. Retrieved from https://2024.eeceraconference.org
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Kroeger, J., & Gunn, A. (2024). Learning from the parents of young gender diverse children. Proceedings of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting: Dismantling racial injustice and constructing educational possibilities: A call to action. doi: 10.3102/2102195
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Kroeger, J., Gunn, A. C., Oleskiewicz, D., & Sanchez, A. (2024). Genderqueer children are powerful: Parent advocates create healthy niches. Proceedings of the 32nd European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) Annual Conference. Retrieved from https://2024.eeceraconference.org
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Oleskiewicz, D., Gunn, A., Kroeger, J., & Sanchez, A. (2024). Parent advocates of gender-diverse children encounter policy and ECED classrooms. Proceedings of the 32nd European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) Annual Conference. Retrieved from https://2024.eeceraconference.org
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Oleskiewicz, D., Kroeger, J., Sanchez, A., Christopher, K., & Gunn, A. (2024, June). Mothering in an era of gender diverse children: Reflections on community support. Panel discussion at the International Association of Maternal Action + Scholarship Conference on Mothering and Motherhood: Past, present and future, Boston, USA.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Gunn, A. C. (2023). Timely interventions: Queer activist early childhood teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand. In N. M. Rodriguez, R. C. Mizzi, L. Allen & R. Cover (Eds.), Queer studies and education: An international reader. (pp. 175-194). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197687000.003.0010
Chapter in Book - Research
Gunn, A. (2023, April). Restor(y)ing connections to ECE assessment and Te Whāriki. Early Childhood Seminar Series, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. [Research Presentation].
Other Research Output
Gunn, A. (2023, November). Herbison Lecture: Reflections on the unsettled academics of teacher education in Aotearoa New Zealand: Working amongst the precariat [Invited]. Keynote presentation at the New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE) Conference, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Gunn, A. C. (2023). Advocacy perspectives of early childhood teachers of gender diverse children: Early insights for professional learning and policy development. Proceedings of the New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE) Conference. 972. Retrieved from https://nzare.org.nz/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Gunn, A. C., Kelly, M., Offen, B., Ormond, A. P., & Sexton, S. (2023). He ara e rua he whāinga kotahi: Walking dual pathways toward shared goals in initial primary sector teacher education. In W. O. Lee, P. Brown, A. L. Goodwin & A. Green (Eds.), International handbook on education development in Asia-Pacific. (pp. 1603-1617). Singapore: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-6887-7_85
Chapter in Book - Research
Kroeger, J., Gunn, A., Sullivan, A. L., & McGaughey, A. (2023). Queer activism: Pathways changing the architecture of gender [Panel discussion]. Proceedings of the 29th Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE) Conference : Pathways: Where we've been, where we are, where we want to go. (pp. 24). Retrieved from https://receinternational.org/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Nuttall, J., Rooney, T., Gunn, A. C., & White, E. J. (2023). The impact of digital documentation platforms on early childhood educators’ work in Australia and New Zealand. Technology, Pedagogy & Education, 32(2), 257-273. doi: 10.1080/1475939X.2023.2177720
Journal - Research Article
Gunn, A. C., White, E. J., & Williams, N. (2022). The status of the image in ECE assessment practice: Insights from the field. New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 19(1), 15-28.
Journal - Research Article
Gunn, A. C. (2022). Young children's learning dispositions. In S. C. Faircloth (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies: Education. (Online ed.) Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199756810-0290
Chapter in Book - Research
Gunn, A. (2022, October). "Why and how kaiako can foreground inclusion, social justice and equity as strengths of curriculum: Learning dispositions and teaching practices that count". Curriculum Te Marautanga Keynote, Me Ako Tonu, [Online]. [Professional Development Seminar].
Other Research Output
Reese, E., Gunn, A., Bateman, A., & Carr, M. (2021). Teacher-child talk about learning stories in New Zealand: A strategy for eliciting children’s complex language. Early Years, 41(5), 506-521. doi: 10.1080/09575146.2019.1621804
Journal - Research Article
White, E. J., Rooney, T., Gunn, A. C., & Nuttall, J. (2021). Understanding how early childhood educators ‘see’ learning through digitally cast eyes: Some preliminary concepts concerning the use of digital documentation platforms. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 46(1), 6-18. doi: 10.1177/1836939120979066
Journal - Research Article
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