All Stories

  1. Alice’s rabbit: Vygotsky, Halliday, and the subtle science of showing what you mean

    Article • Early Years Journal of International Research and Development, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Nicholas

  2. Exploring children’s meaning-making as they interact with digital artworks through play at a museum exhibition

    Article • Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, September 2025, SAGE Publications

    Maria Nicholas

  3. Children's Engagement with Digital Technology in Educational Spaces: A Scoping Review

    Article • Computers & Education, September 2025, Elsevier

    Maria Nicholas

  4. Using a ‘Design Summit’ for Educational Prototyping

    Article • Electronics, August 2025, MDPI AG

    Maria Nicholas

  5. Teacher agency and student diversity in reading education: What do Australian teachers think?

    Article • The Australian Educational Researcher, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Nicholas

  6. Wobblies: Designing Intentional Playthings with Young Children

    Article • March 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Nicholas

  7. Embeddables: Designing Physical-Digital Manipulatives for Young Children

    Article • March 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Nicholas

  8. How Individuals Matter: An Analysis, an Emulation, and a Response to Nathalie Bulle

    Article • Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Nicholas

  9. Rehabilitate Defectology! Teaching Foundation Reading as Compensation

    Article • Early Years Journal of International Research and Development, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Nicholas

  10. Meeting the Needs and Potentials of High-Ability, High-Performing, and Gifted Students via Differentiation

    Article • Gifted Child Quarterly, January 2024, SAGE Publications

    Maria Nicholas

  11. Guided to Guider: the “∼ed” and “∼er” roles in professional development materials for guided Reading

    Article • Social Semiotics, September 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Nicholas

  12. The shared reading of digital storybooks with young children: Parents’ perspectives

    Article • Research Papers in Education, April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Nicholas

  13. Cross-sector collaborations via Facebook: teachers’ use of social media

    Article • The Australian Educational Researcher, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Nicholas

  14. Transition into school-aged care – how do services support children starting school?

    Article • European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, March 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Nicholas

  15. Literacy learning in infant-toddler programs: Practice architectures as a lens for examining educator pedagogy

    Article • Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, July 2022, SAGE Publications

    Maria Nicholas

  16. Examining the paradoxes children experience in language and literacy learning

    Article • The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Nicholas

  17. The Barometer of Agency: Reconceptualising the ‘Guided Reading’ Teaching Approach

    Article • Education Sciences, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Maria Nicholas

  18. Guided reading – Working within a child's zone of proximal development

    Article • Learning Culture and Social Interaction, September 2021, Elsevier

    Maria Nicholas

  19. Cross-sector early years teacher collaboration: using professional learning workshops as boundary objects for professional boundary crossing

    Article • European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Nicholas

  20. Child-Centred Teaching: Helping Each Child to Reach Their Full Potential

    Article • Education Sciences, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Maria Nicholas

  21. Learning to read: where should early childhood educators begin?

    Article • Literacy, August 2020, Wiley

    Maria Nicholas

  22. School readiness – what does this mean? Educators’ perceptions using a cross sector comparison

    Article • International Journal of Early Years Education, February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Nicholas

  23. Mothers’ views on shared reading with their two-year olds using printed and electronic texts: Purpose, confidence and practice

    Article • Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, August 2018, SAGE Publications

    Maria Nicholas

  24. Digital Literacies in Middle Years Classrooms: Teachers’ Perspectives and Self-reported Practices

    Article • The International Journal of Learning Annual Review, January 2018, Common Ground Publishing

    Maria Nicholas

  25. Using Digital Devices in a First Year Classroom: A Focus on the Design and Use of Phonics Software Applications

    Article • Journal of Education and Learning, December 2016, Canadian Center of Science and Education

    Maria Nicholas

  26. Using Multiple Videoed Events to generate data

    Article • International Journal of Research & Method in Education, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Nicholas

  27. Insights into casual relief teaching: casual relief teachers’ perceptions of their knowledge and skills

    Article • Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Nicholas

  28. Teacher Practice: A Spotlight on the Use of Feedback and Conferencing in the First Year of Schooling

    Article • Australian Journal of Teacher Education, January 2014, Edith Cowan University

    Maria Nicholas