QUT | Staff Profiles | Megan Gibson

Name

Dr Megan Gibson

Position(s)

Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Education,
School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education

Discipline *

Other Education, Specialist Studies in Education

Phone

+61 7 3138 8092

Fax

+61 7 3138 3989

Email

ml.gibson@qut.edu.au

Location

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Identifiers and profiles

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology), M Ed (Queensland University of Technology), B Ed (EC) (The University of Melbourne), Dip T (EC) (Brisbane College of Adv. Ed.)

Professional memberships and associations

Reggio Emilia Australian Information Exchange (REAIE)
Social Justice in Early Childhood (SJIEC)
Early Childhood Australia (ECA)
Queensland Early Childhood Environmental Education Network (QECEEN)
American Educational Research Association (AERA)

Keywords

child care, early childhood education, preservice teacher education, professional identities

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

BackgroundMegan Gibson is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education. Megan’s key areas of higher education teaching and research interests are informed by her expansive work in the field, and focus on preparing and sustaining the early childhood workforce.

This information has been contributed by Dr Megan Gibson.

Megan brings her experiences from teaching in a range of early childhood contexts, as well as her research focus, to her teaching. She has worked across a number of undergraduate units, including as current unit co-ordinator in:

EAB515 Leadership and management in early childhood
EAB512 Child Health, Safety, Wellbeing and Movement Education

Past unit co-ordination has included:

EAB006 Leadership and management in early childhood services
EAB017 The early childhood professional
EAB130 Negotiating the curriculum
EAB002 Early childhood foundations 2: Families and childhood
EDB013 Early childhood field studies 3: Diversity and inclusivity
EAB021 Early childhood health, safety, nutrition and wellness.

This information has been contributed by Dr Megan Gibson.

As an early childhood educator, with some 20 years of teaching experience, Megan has worked across a range of diverse early childhood contexts, including:

lower primary
kindergarten/preschool
long day care.

In her most recent role, as the Director of Campus Kindergarten, University of Queensland, Megan led this unique community through significant organisational evolution. Notable elements of this change were in the areas of education for sustainability, the arts, pedagogical documentation and organisational structure. Megan’s doctoral research focused on the production and maintenance of early childhood teachers’ professional identities. This study provides understandings about teachers’ professional identities and career choices, particularly around long day care.

This information has been contributed by Dr Megan Gibson.

Gibson M, Cumming T, Zollo L, (2017) Re-thinking discourse of teacher professionalism in early childhood education: an Australian perspective, Contemporary issues and challenge in early childhood education in the Asia-Pacific region [New Frontiers of Educational Research] p203-219
Ryan S, Gibson M, (2016) Preservice early childhood teacher education, Handbook of early childhood teacher education p195-208
Gibson M, (2016) Contexts, policy and frameworks of early childhood education and care, Understanding early childhood education and care in Australia: practices and perspectives p121-140
McArdle F, Gibson M, Zollo L, (2015) Being an early childhood educator: Bringing theory and practice together
Gibson M, (2015) 'Heroic victims': Discursive constructions of preservice early childhood teacher professional identities, Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education p142-155
Wong S, Harrison L, Press F, Sumsion J, Gibson M, Woods A, (2015) The construction of a taxonomy of early childhood educators' work, Tokai Journal of Experimental and Clinical Medicine p79-88
Press F, Wong S, Gibson M, (2015) Understanding who cares: creating the evidence to address the long-standing policy problem of staff shortages in early childhood education and care, Journal of Family Studies p87-100
Hard L, Press F, Gibson M, (2013) 'Doing' social justice in early childhood: The potential of leadership, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood p324-334
Gibson M, (2013) 'I want to educate school-age children': producing early childhood teacher professional identities, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood p127-137
Brownlee J, Petriwskyj A, Thorpe K, Stacey P, Gibson M, (2011) Changing personal epistemologies in early childhood pre-service teachers using an integrated teaching program, Higher Education Research and Development p477-490

For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.

Dr Megan Gibson

Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)

Current supervisions