Instructional Design
Learning designed around the educators and children who will actually use it.
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Specialisations
Where practice and culture meet.
The working expertise behind more than thirty years in early childhood education — instructional design, resource development and community engagement, alongside a cultural practice carried through music, storytelling and the arts.
Core Expertise
The disciplines
Resource Development
Early childhood resources developed to be accessible, with cultural relevance built in rather than added afterwards.
Early Childhood Education
More than thirty years of practice, including music and preschool teaching.
Service Management & Regulation
Roles held on both sides of the standard — in service management, and in regulation.
Inclusion Support
Inclusion support offered alongside educators, so that every child is held in view.
Early Childhood Consultancy
Consultancy for services, grounded in the practice it is asked to advise on.
TAFE Teaching & Mentoring
TAFE teaching, together with the continuing mentoring of early childhood professionals.
Community Engagement
Work carried out directly with educators, children and families across the Northern Territory, Victoria and Queensland.
Writing & Storytelling
Children’s storybooks and educational materials that champion cultural representation and inclusion.
Sharing Cultural Knowledge
Cultural knowledge shared with care, through education, music, storytelling and the arts.
Weaving & Bilas
Workshops in traditional Pacific weaving and bilas creation, led to nurture cultural exchange.
Song, Dance & Music
A classical music background alongside international performance in traditional Pacific song and dance.
In Practice
Knowledge, shared.
“Everyone holds the right to practise, develop and maintain their connection to culture.The James approach
Ready when you are
Bring this practice to your early childhood team
Instructional design, resource development and cultural capability — developed with educators, children and families in view.