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THE FEATURE

Same Framework, Different Conditions

Seeing quality on OSHC terms means recognising the pedagogical possibilities of school-age care while continuing to examine how practice is experienced by children and young people.
RESEARCHER PERSPECTIVE

Making What Was Invisible Visible

Professor Jennifer Cartmel looks back at the limited Australian OSHC evidence base when the first My Time, Our Place was written, and at what children's perspectives now help adults notice.

A VIEW FROM PRACTICE

What Happens Between Educators

Toni Leigh Kovacs reflects on the communication, trust and shared responsibility that help hold an OSHC session together.
PRACTICE IN FOCUS

Looking With Purpose

A practical distinction between observation, interpretation, further inquiry and professional response while supervising.
RESEARCH & EVIDENCE

What Counts as Evidence?

A careful look at what frameworks, data, research, professional knowledge and children's accounts can each support when we talk about quality.
REFLECT + LEARN

Look Again at Familiar Practice

Use the reflective spread and Language Audit to examine what your service recognises as quality and what familiar phrases may be obscuring.

Contributors

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BELINDA WRIGHT

Founder and Editor
Australian OSHC practitioner-researcher, founder of Learn OSHC and editor of OSHCology® Quarterly.
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PROFESSOR JENNIFER CARTMEL

Researcher Perspective
Professor at Griffith University and a longstanding contributor to Australian school-age care research and My Time, Our Place.
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TONI LEIGH KOVACS

A View from Practice | Design and Layout
Area Manager working across multiple OSHC services, and designer of Issue 01.
OSHCology® is a term coined by Belinda Wright to describe the study, thinking and professional conversation that grows from taking Outside School Hours Care seriously on its own terms.

It brings together practice, perspectives, research and reflection concerned with the distinctive conditions of OSHC.

OSHCology® Quarterly is a free quarterly publication published by Learn OSHC Press, the publishing imprint of Learn OSHC.
OSHCology® Quarterly is published by Learn OSHC Press, the publishing imprint of Learn OSHC.
Issue 01: Seeing OSHC Differently | Published 26 October 2026
Founder and Editor: Belinda Wright | Design and Layout: Toni Leigh Kovacs  
© 2026 Belinda Wright. All rights reserved.
Individual contributor material remains the copyright of the respective authors.
OSHCology® and OSHCologist® are registered trade marks of Belinda Wright.

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