Personal profile
Research Interests
Early Childhood mathematics learning and teaching
Children's learning dispositions
Career Highlights
Virginia’s funding highlights include being a project member for a 2021 $240,442 Department of Education and Training Victoria grant, which focused on developing professional learning and best practice resources for foundation teachers using differentiated play-based inquiry learning. From 2018 to 2022, she co-led a $150,000 project with Catholic Education South Australia with Dr. David Moltow (University of Tasmania), examining the cultivation of critical learning dispositions through students’ learning of mathematical pattern and structure. Additionally, in 2022-2023, she was part of a $10,000 Deakin Design Seeding Grant project aimed at enhancing student engagement and retention through integrated teaching, learning, and assessment.
Completed Supervisions
PhD:
2018: Enhancing Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning through Guided Assessment Design
2017 Fostering Children’s Capacity for Empathic Reasoning: The Role of Community of Inquiry in an Empathic Pedagogy
Honours:
2016: Exploring transformative principles in early child educators’ reflective practice
2007: Moral reasoning and values education in Early Childhood settings
Graduate Certificate in Education Research:
2018-2021: Pathways to PhD research papers supervision
Research Expertise
Early Childhood Mathematics
Design-Based Research Methodology
Education/Academic qualification
Bachelor of Letters (Literary Criticism), Deakin University
Graduate Diploma in Montessori Teaching: Early Childhood 3-6 years, Institute for Advanced Montessori Studies, Maryland, USA
PhD, Young Children’s Statistical Reasoning: A Tale of Two Contexts, Queensland University of Technology
Bachelor of Laws, University of Adelaide
Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood), University of South Australia
Research Areas
- Education
Supervisory Interests
- Early childhood Mathematics
- Early childhood education
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 4 Quality Education -
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Enriching the professional capital of primary school teachers to assess play and learning through play
Nolan, A., Paatsch, L. & Kinnear, V., 2025, In: Professional Development in Education. 51, 7, p. 1608-1623 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Supporting children to be accurate when creating grid patterns in foundation year
Kinnear, V., Moltow, D., McKenzie, J. & Mulligan, J., 2023, In: Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom. 28, 3, p. 35-40 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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THE ROLE OF CONTEXT IN YOUNG CHILDREN’S INTERPRETATION OF A DATA TABLE
Kinnear, V., 31 Jul 2023, In: Statistics Education Research Journal. 22, 2, 14 p., 3.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The role of movement in young children’s spatial experiences: a review of early childhood mathematics education research
McCluskey, C., Kilderry, A., Mulligan, J. & Kinnear, V., Jun 2023, In: Mathematics Education Research Journal. 35, 2, p. 287-315 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Tools and time for noticing in early childhood pedagogy outdoors
Morrissey, A.-M., Wishart, L., Robertson, N., Moore, D. & Kinnear, V., 2023, Assessment and Data Systems in Early Childhood Settings: Theory and Practice. McLachlan, C., McLaughlin, T., Cherrington, S. & Aspden, K. (eds.). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, p. 125-147 23 p. (Early Childhood Research and Education: An Inter-Theoretical Focus; vol. 5).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Prizes
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Engagement and Partnerships Excellence Award - Industry and Community Engagement
Kinnear, V. (Recipient), 2022
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