Rate My Professor Margaret Grogan

Margaret Grogan is an Academic Casual and Professional Casual in the Macquarie School of Education at Macquarie University. She is a PhD candidate whose research aims to advance our understanding of effective teaching strategies and educator-child relationships in early childhood contexts. Grogan holds two master's degrees, one in Research and the other in Early Childhood. She teaches, marks, and supervises students in the Bachelor of Early Childhood Education and Masters of Teaching courses, while also supporting student and educator mentoring at the university. As unit convenor, she leads several key units, including Practice of Teaching: Introduction to the Early Childhood Context, Practice of Teaching: Outdoor Learning Environments, Understanding Play Based Approaches for Learning, Development and Wellbeing, ECHE1310 – Exploring The Arts in Children's Lives, EDST3020 Practice of Teaching, and ECHE6030 – Early Childhood Professional Practice 1. Students can contact her via iLearn or by appointment.

Grogan's research specializations encompass educators' responses to gender and emotion in educator-child reminiscing vignettes, educators' perspectives on reminiscing with girls, boys, and everyone else, the timing and reasons early childhood educators reminisce with children about past experiences, and characteristics of educators' talk about decontextualised events. Her major publications include 'Educators' responses to gender and emotion in educator-child reminiscing vignettes' (Early Education and Development, 2025, with Rebecca Andrews and Penny Van Bergen), 'Talking about the past: what do educators think about reminiscing with girls, boys, and everyone else?' (with Rebecca Andrews and Penny Van Bergen), 'When and why do early childhood educators reminisce with children about their past experiences?' (2021, with Rebecca Andrews and Penny Van Bergen), and 'Characteristics of educators' talk about decontextualised events' (with Rebecca Andrews and Penny Van Bergen). She specializes in early childhood teaching and mentoring.