With over 18 years of teaching experience in diverse educational settings, Yanina has worked across:

Private, public, council-run, and parent committee-run services
Sessional kindergartens and bush/nature kindergartens
International preschools in Japan and Argentina
She also brings experience from primary schools and language schools, where she has taught children, teenagers and adults in English and Spanish. Her leadership roles include Educational Leader, Team Leader, Certified Supervisor and Acting 2IC, with expertise in curriculum development, team mentoring, and quality improvement (NQS ratings: Exceeding).

Monash University

The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)

Victoria University (VU)

University of New England (UNE)

The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)

Awarded a prize of a full lifetime membership of the Association of Graduates in Early Childhood Studies (AGECS) for outstanding academic performance.
Monash University
2020

Early Childhood Graduate Award
Outstanding academic performance in coursework studies and exemplary performance on Early Years professional placements in the Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Early Years Education.
Monash University 
2019

Scholarship AU$10,000 
Department of Education and Training - Victoria State Government
2016 

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS 

Doctoral thesis

Carrizo, Y. (2024). Affective Dustly Becomings With Child-Earth Relations and Other Matters (Version 1). RMIT University. https://doi.org/10.25439/rmt.25971541

Book Chapters

Carrizo, Y., & Harris, D.X. (2025). Becoming-with Dust and the More-than-human. In T. Doughty , J. Deszcz-Tryhubczak & J. Grafton (Ed.). Children’s Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: Multidisciplinary Entanglements (pp. 155–168). London, Bloomsbury Academic. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350510005.ch-14

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

Carrizo, Y. (Upcoming). Microscopic Matters and Multispecies Pedagogies: Re-creating Professionalism in Early Childhood Education. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood.

Carrizo, Y., Knight, L., & Harris, D. X. (2025). Decolonising Dust: Rewilding the Microworlds of Early Childhood Pedagogies. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 1–17. http://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2025.27

Peñaloza-Caicedo, A., Carrizo, Y., & Chan, K. K. L. (2022). Materials as participants for social and ecological justice: An artistic hundred-word writing experiment. JAWS: Journal of Arts Writing by Students, 8(1), 53-76. https://doi.org/10.1386/jaws_00042_1

Other Published Works

Carrizo, Y. (2003) Affective Becomings with Child-Earth Relations (and Other Matters). In David Rousell & Wendy Steele’s, Future Carbon. Booklet, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Carrizo, Y. Tierra (dust): the (in)visible agentic matter (Oral Presentation). ASLE Biennial Conference - Collective Atmosphere: Air, Intimacy and Inequality, July 2025, University of Maryland (Online).

Carrizo, Y., and Knight, L. Creative mapping encounters with dust in a kindergarten (Poster). Seminar: ‘Making Connection: Mapping Social And Creative Encounters’, Mapping Future Imaginaries Network (MFI), September 2023, RMIT University (Online).

Carrizo, Y. Becoming with Child-Earth Relations and Dust (Oral Presentation). Australian Journal of Early Childhood Symposium ‘Early childhood knowledges, generations and time’, Feb 2023 (Online).

Carrizo, Y. Becoming-with dust and child-earth relations in the Anthropocene (Oral Presentation). Congress Theme: Qualitative Inquiry in the Anthropocene: Affirmative and generative possibilities for (Post)Anthropocentric futures. 6th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ENQI), United Kingdom, Jan 2023 (Online).

Carrizo, Y. Panel Member and Presenter - Becoming-with dust and child-earth relations (Oral Presentation). Symposium on Restorying justice(s) in/through transcultural educational research.  Transforming the Future of Education: The Role of Research Organiser, AARE: Australian Association for Research on Education, Adelaide, Australia, Nov-Dec 2022.

Carrizo, Y. Becoming-with dust and child-earth relations in education (Oral Presentation). 50th Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA) conference - Looking back and looking forward, Sydney, Australia, Dec 2022.

Chan, K. K-L., Peñaloza Caicedo, A., & Carrizo, Y. Reimagining Education: Materials as Participants for Social and Ecological Justice (Oral Presentation). Reimagining Education Research, SIG: Post-Structural Theory, Australian Association for Research on Education, Melbourne, Australia, Dec 2021.

Network presentation

Carrizo, Y. and Associate Professor Linda Knight (Online presentation). Inefficient mapping in posthuman research with young children. Creative Agency Education Research Network – Researchers at work (ERN RAW) series, Aug 2021

Forum presentation

Carrizo, Y. Dust - Tierra, an atmospheric matter, in early childhood spaces (Online Presentation). Latin America Research Community (LARC) forum, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, Nov 2021 

Higher Education

Full-time Lecturer in Education (2025 – present)

School of Education and the Arts, Central Queensland University

Senior Lecturer and Unit Coordinator for:

Course: Graduate Diploma of Early Childhood Education

Unit: Curious Learners: Exploring STEM and Sustainability (EDEC28003)

Unit: Early Language, Literacy and the Creative Arts (EDEC28005)

Unit: Play, Purpose, and Pedagogy (EDEC28007)

Sessional Unit Coordinator (2024)

School of Education, University of New England

Course: Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Education and Care)

Module: Mathematics and Engineering in Early Childhood Education (EDEC315)

Module: Science and Technology in Early Childhood Education (EDEC317)

Sessional Academic - Lecturer (2024)

School of Education, University of New England

Course: Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Education and Care)

Module: Diversities in play and pedagogies (EDEC312)

Sessional Academic - Lecturer and Team Leader (2024 – 2025)

College of Arts, Business, Law, Education and IT, Victoria University

Course: Graduate Diploma of Early Childhood Education

Unit: Languages of Children (ECE6011)

Unit: Contemporary Issues, Social Contexts of Learning and Social Justice (ECE6003)

Unit: Place, play and the languages of science (ECE6010)

Sessional Teaching and Research (2024)

School of Education, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)

Course: Graduate Diploma of Early Childhood Education

Unit: Being in Early Years (TCHE2685)

Unit: Becoming Belonging in the Early Years: Praxis (TCHE2684)

Unit: Becoming an Early Years Professional (TCHE2687)

Mentor Teacher (2014 – 2022)

Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne

Course: Master of Teaching Early Childhood, Professional Practice Program

Research Fellow (2018 – 2019) 

Monash University (CURIE) 

Early Childhood and Primary Education

Early Childhood Teacher and Team Leader (2021 – 2022) 

Sessional kindergarten

Doris Blackburn Preschool

National Quality Standards (NQS) rating: Exceeding

Early Childhood Teacher and Team Leader – Certified Supervisor (2022)

Will Will Rook Preschool 

Bush/Nature Pedagogy Kindergarten Program

Northern Schools Early Years Cluster 

National Quality Standards (NQS) rating: Exceeding

Educational Leader (2011 – 2019)                                                                           

Acting 2IC and Coordinator, and Early Childhood Educator 

Moonee Valley City Council

Flemington Street Children’s Centre and Strathmore Children’s Centre

National Quality Standards (NQS) rating: Exceeding

Certified Abecedarian Approach Australia 3a Practitioner and Coach (2014 – 2018)

While employed by Moonee Valley City Council, I collaborated with the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and the University of Melbourne to implement 3a. This involved me coaching and mentoring early childhood professionals in implementing 3a, a set of evidence-based teaching and learning strategies for early childhood educators and parents to use with children from birth to five. Research shows that 3a delivers enhanced educational outcomes by enriching and enhancing educator practice before and after a child starts school.

Certified Educational Leader (2016 – 2018) in Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS)

While employed by Moonee Valley City Council, I collaborated with the University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education to apply CLASS, an innovative observational tool to objectively assess classroom quality based on teacher-child interactions. CLASS focused on high-quality interactions, created a shared understanding of program quality, and measured the quality of interactions to create a system that enabled data-driven improvement in teaching quality through tailored and individualised professional development.

Teacher (2018)

Kinder Kids Japan (International School)

International Professional Experience in Kindergartens

Monash University

Primary School Teacher (2017)

Gladstone Views Primary School

Early Years Professional Experience 

Monash University

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Dr. Yanina Carrizo is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education with over 18 years of experience as a KINDERGARTEN AND PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER in Australia and internationally. Since completing her PhD in xxxx, she has held roles as lecturer, unit coordinator, 2ic, educational leader, mentor for higher education institutions including Southern Queensland Uni, etc, demonstrating expertise in curriculum design, pedagogy and leadership.

Her PhD in Education at RMIT University (2020–2024), focussed on posthumanist and material-centered approaches to early childhood education. Yanina has coordinated and taught undergraduate and postgraduate units and collaborated in research projects.

Centre for Research in Equity and Advancement of Teaching and Education – CREATE https://www.cqu.edu.au/research/organisations/create 

The Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia – PESA https://pesa.org.au/ 

Australian Association Research for Education – AARE https://www.aare.edu.au/

Mapping Future Imaginaries Research Network https://mappingfutureimaginaries.com/

Creative Agency Research Lab www.creativeresearchhub.com 

Association of Graduates in Early Childhood Studies – AGECS https://agecs.org.au/ 

Design, deliver and coordinate units in early childhood education across undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
Develop inclusive, student-centered teaching strategies that promote engagement and critical reflective practice.
Create and review unit content aligned with national standards and accreditation requirements.
Integrate innovative pedagogies, sustainability and STEM approaches into curriculum design.
Design and implement authentic assessment tasks, providing timely and constructive feedback.
Mentor and coach students during professional practice placements.
Lead marking and placement supervisory teams and collaborate with colleagues to ensure quality delivery and evaluation.
Conduct research and publish in peer-reviewed journals and present at national and international conferences.
Contribute to collaborative research projects and grant applications.Monitor and evaluate teaching performance through student evaluations and peer reviews.
Provide academic supervision for research students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Ensure compliance with institutional policies and professional standards.

Early Childhood Education – Innovative pedagogies and curriculum design for diverse learning environments.
Posthumanist and more-than-human Centered Approaches – Exploring child–earth relations and more-than-human entanglements.
Environmental and Social Justice – Integrating sustainability and ethical practices into education.
Arts-Based and Interdisciplinary Methodologies – Combining arts, science and technology to enrich learning experiences.
Experimental Pedagogies – Designing creative, inquiry-driven approaches to teaching and learning.
Research Collaboration – Engaging in projects that reimagine education through diverse theoretical and methodological lenses.

Curriculum writing to meet accreditation