Maura Sellars PhD is a lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Student centred early childhood pedagogies have permeated her work as a classroom teacher, researcher and writer. An experienced teacher, she taught across all primary grades in schools in the UK and Australia for almost 30 years. With a background in creativity, she aims to produce practical, engaging and fulfilling programs that are inclusive and socially just in nature. She has worked extensively in Professional Preparation, mathematics and concepts of numeracy as social practice. She is currently working on developing resources to support all teachers in becoming effective teachers of numeracy, on strategies that support the development of 21st century thinking and learning and on making mathematics and numeracy meaningful for students.