NSW Sustaining Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education
Description
Spanning South Australia and New South Wales, this three-year project unites educators, families, and researchers to build sustainable, culturally responsive ways of teaching.
At the conference you will enjoy presentations from our international keynote speaker Dr María José Opazo as well as our early childhood educational leaders, who will be presenting their 2026 critical action research projects. In addition to these presentations, we are thrilled to be launching the Australian Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Early Childhood Pedagogies Framework in NSW. Please join us for a day of celebration and knowledge sharing.

This research has been supported by the following organisations:
Western Sydney University
Adelaide University
KU Children's Services
NSW Department of Education
Catholic Education South Australia
Gowrie South Australia
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Dr. María José Opazo
María José Opazo is a researcher & teaching Academic at the University of Chile. She is currently a visiting scholar working and collaborating on research with WSU early childhood academics. Working in predominantly qualitative methodologies, her research examines how policies, leadership practices, and institutional conditions shape the work of educational teams and children's learning and wellbeing opportunities.
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