Dr Marie White
Lecturer
School of Education and Arts
Areas of expertise: Early childhood leadership, pedagogies and workforce issues.
Phone: 3623 7267
Email: marie.white@acu.edu.au
Location: ACU Brisbane Campus
Marie is a lecturer and early career researcher in the National School of Education at Australian Catholic University. Marie has a background in early childhood education and care with experience in both teaching and leadership spanning more than 20 years in prior to school early childhood contexts. Marie's doctoral research focused on leadership in early childhood education and care - specifically on the ways that leadership is discursively produced. Through her ongoing research, Marie seeks to disrupt taken-for-granted ideas about leadership by exploring how early childhood leaders produce understandings about leadership.
Select publications
- White, M. (2021). Producing Leadership: Collective Memory Stories of Leaders in Early Childhood Education. [Doctoral dissertation, Queensland University of Technology]. QUT ePrints. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/
- White, M. (2022). Doctoral Theses Synopsis: Producing Leadership: Collective Memory Stories of Leaders in Early Childhood Education. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 43(4), 658-https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2022.2072584
- White, M. (2022). Leadership in changing times: What does it mean to be a 'good' leadership in early childhood education? The Sector, 4/7/22 [Article] https://thesector.com.au/2022/07/04/stories-from-the-field-shape-understandings-of-what-makes-a-good-ecec-leader/
- White, M., Gibson, M., Theobald, M., & Farrell, A. (In review). "Diplomatically bossy": Discursive constructions of 'good' leadership in early childhood told through educators' memories. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood.
Projects
- Virtual Horizons: Virtual Reality in Teacher Education
- Teaching Development Grant, ACU $10,000
2022
- The Research Trust
- Program, ACU
2022 - 2024
Accolades
- ACU State Head Commendation for Teaching 2022,
- National School of Education, ACU
- Teaching Development Grant, 'Expanding Virtual Horizons: Virtual Reality in Teacher Education'
- Faculty of Education and Arts, ACU ($10,000)
- Recipient of the Jean Ferguson Memorial Award in Early Childhood Education - 2017 ($5000)
Appointments
- Lecturer in Education, Australian Catholic University
January 2022 - current
- Co-Facilitator, ACU Shut Up & Write Group
- National School of Education, ACU
2022 - current
- Research Trust Fellow - The Research Trust Program, Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, ACU
- Sessional Academic, School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
2018-2021
- Director/Teacher | Aspley East Kindergarten and Preschool
2012 - 2021
- Teacher - Campus Kindergarten, St Lucia
2008-2012
- Group Leader - Stafford Child Care Centre
2005-2006
- Group Leader - Tadpoles Early Learning Centre -Murrumba Downs
2003-2004
- Memberships and Affiliations:
- Queensland College of Teachers (QCT) - Full registration (827032)
- Early Childhood Australia (ECA) - Member of the QLD branch committee
- Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) - Member
