Rate My Professor Anne-Marie Shin

Dr Anne-Marie Shin serves as a Lecturer in the School of Education, College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences at Adelaide University. She brings extensive experience to her role, having worked in the university sector since 2016 following 32 years of teaching and leadership in early childhood education across Birth-8 age groups in kindergartens, junior primary schools, and integrated children’s centres. Her positions included curriculum leadership with the Department for Education. Shin holds a Masters of Education, which examined the importance of leadership in early childhood to bridge the two national curricula, and has completed doctoral research investigating arts-based pedagogies for democratic participation in early childhood, employing methods such as focus groups, ethnographically informed fieldwork, annotated screen shots, and analysis of children's movements, gaze, and vocalisations. She is an associate member of the Centre for Research in Education and Social Inclusion and maintains memberships in RECE, REAIE, and NTEU, while serving on the executive of EChO Early Childhood Association.

Shin’s research specializations include early childhood curriculum and pedagogy, arts-based pedagogies for democratic participation, culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogies, leadership in early childhood, public pedagogy involving families and community through the arts, hospitable affective atmospheres, listening to materials, and intra-action in education. Her key publications encompass 'Enhancing Undergraduate Pre-Service Teachers’ Self-Efficacy in Arts Education: Integrating Creative Body-Based Learning and an Ethics of Care' (2026, Australian Journal of Education), 'Enacting everyday democratic pedagogies in a birth-five early years setting' (2024, The Australian Educational Researcher), 'Co-constructed leadership in early childhood education' (2024, International Journal of Leadership in Education), 'Readers matter: seven transactions with the visual, linguistic and material elements in a picture book' (2023, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy), 'Communing to re-imagine figured worlds' (2022, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood), 'Re-imagining family engagement as a two-way street' (2022, Australian Educational Researcher), and ''Teaching culture through culture': a case study of culturally responsive pedagogies in an Australian early childhood/primary context' (2020, Journal of Research in Childhood Education). She has received the Educators SA World Teachers’ Day award in 2022 and secured grants including Sustaining Early Childhood Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Pedagogies (2025-2026) and Building Culturally Responsive Teams (2025). Shin coordinates courses such as Arts Education in Early Years, Arts Across the Early Childhood Curriculum, and Professional Experience courses, and previously served on the board of Patch Theatre Company from 2010 to 2022.