Dr Glenn Cupit

Glenn Cupit lives in Adelaide with his writer wife, Cecily, and adult sons Thorin and Lachlan. Now aged 59, Glenn has spent the last 38 years in tertiary education. Currently, he is Senior Lecturer in Child Development in the deLissa Institute of Early Childhood and Family Studies where his principal responsibilities are to supervise and teach the program for honours students and to prepare all early childhood students for their rôle as practitioner researchers. After attending Haberfield Demonstration School and Fort St Boys High, Glenn graduated from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours in Psychology and then completed a Master of Arts with Honours at the University of New South Wales. He has a Doctor of Philosophy from Murdoch University for his thesis 'Spiritual Development and the Public Educative Care of Children: A Critical Evaluation of Biblical and Dynamic Systems Perspectives' Initially employed to teach Psychology at Wollongong University, he moved to Adelaide in 1975 to teach child development and has since specialised in children's cognitive development, research methods, the impact of electronic media upon children and children's spiritual development. Glenn has published four books, 'Perspectives on children and spirituality', 'Kids and the scary world of video', 'The child audience' and 'Socialising the superheroes', and a number of chapters and papers. His interest in children and media has been reflected in advocacy, through the Australian Council for Children's Films and Television and as a member of the Community Ascertainment Committee of SAS-7 Adelaide; in addresses to professional conferences and community groups, including lecture tours in Western Australia and Tasmania; and in consultancies for the Australian Broadcasting Authority, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commercial networks and individual producers. In his spare time, Glenn likes to write and play music, act, spend time in the bush, watch most types of sport, cook and eat and drink good food and wine with friends. He hates gardening, large parties and invertebrates.

• Children and electronic media
• Cognitive development
• Epistemological and methodological issues in early childhood research
• Relation of observational skills to curricular decision making
• Spiritual development and education

Australasian Human Development Association (Management Committee, 1994-1997, Organising Committee, 10th Australasian Human Development Conference, 1996-1997)

Board of Educational and Developmental Psychologists of the Australian Psychological Society; (Member of Working Party on BEDP rules, 1991, Co-writer Position Paper on Psychology and media, 2001)

Australian College of Education (Member of Current Issues Committee, 1994-1997)

Early Childhood Australia

BA(Hons)(Sydney)

MA(Hons)(NSW)

PhD (Murdoch)

• Spiritual development in childhood
• Children's interaction with electronic media

MONOGRAPHS AND CHAPTERS

Cupit, C. G. (2005). Perspectives on children and spirituality. NSW: Scripture Union.

Cupit, C.G. (1998). Being a child in the media age: The development of values. AND Cupit, C.G. (1998). Consensus on community values. In J. Squires & T. Newlands (Eds.) Caring For Children In The Media Age: Papers from a national conference held in March 1998 by the New College Institute for Values Research, University of NSW, Sydney and Young Media Australia. Sydney: New College Institute for Values Research.

Cupit,C.G. (1994) Much to view about nothing. In F.Briggs (Ed) Children and families: Australian perspectives. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin.

Cupit,C.G. (1994) Valuing children. In S.Frith & B.Biggins (Eds) Children and advertising: A fair game? AND Cupit,C.G. (1994) Misleading children. In S.Frith & B.Biggins (Eds) Children and advertising: A fair game? Sydney: New College Institute for Values Research.

Cupit,C.G. (1991) Responding appropriately to the superhero play phenomenon. AND Cupit,C.G. (1991) Early childhood education that stimulates positive spirituality. In Australian Early Childhood Association (Ed) ardla witey - to kindle the fire: Proceedings of the 19th National Conference of the Australian Early Childhood Association. Adelaide: Editor.

Cupit,C.G. (1989) Socialising the superheroes. Canberra: Australian Early Childhood Association.

Cupit, C.G. (1987). The child audience: A guide to the developing child for television writers and producers. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.

Cupit,C.G. (1986). Kid?s and the scary world of video. Adelaide: South Australian Council for Children?s Films and Television.

JOURNALS

Cupit,C.G. (1998). The development of values. Values, Winter, 1-3.

Cupit,C.G. (1996). Superhero play and very human children. Early Years, 16(2), 22-25.

Cupit,C.G. (1994). Valuing children. Values, Summer, 1-4.

Cupit,C.G. (1993). TV programs for preschool children. Journal of the Australian Early Childhood Association, Victorian Branch, 11(1), 31-41.

Cupit,C.G. (1991) Charging the batteries: A defense of a multidisciplinary developmental focus as a basis for teacher education. Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 8(1), 17-19.

OTHER

Sanson, A., Cupit, C. G. et al (2001). Australian Psychological Society Position Paper: Media representations and responsibilities. Melbourne: APS.

PROFESSIONALLY RELEVANT GENERAL PUBLICATIONS

Cupit, C. G. (2001). Good intentions are not enough. Small Screen, 160/161, 3.

Cupit, C. G. (1997). Children and spirituality: Passing on faith to our children. Zadok Perspectives, 56, 12-15

Cupit, C. G. (1996). Educative care and the media. Every Child, 2 (1),4-5.

NON-PRINT MEDIA

Professional Presentations

Tertiary Institutions

Cupit,C.G. (1991) Children and media: What can the research tell us. Staff colloquium, School of Early Childhood Studies, The University of Melbourne, April.

Cupit,C.G. (1991) Spirituality and religious education. Guest lecturer in elective unit 'The development of religious belief' AND Cupit,C.G. & Cupit,C.(1991) Creativity in story-telling. Guest lecturer in core Religious Studies unit 'Creative approaches to religious education'. AND Cupit,C.G. (1991) The development of spirituality. Guest lecturer in core Religious Studies unit 'Approaches to religious education'. AND Cupit,C.G. (1991) An approach to superhero play. Guest lecturer to all Children's Studies students. Edith Cowen University, March.

Academic and Professional Conferences

Cupit, C.G. (2001). Dynamic systems theory as a scientific model for considering the development of spirituality. Spirituality and Odyssey Symposium, Adelaide 2001: A Psychological Odyssey, 36th Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Adelaide, September.

Cupit, C.G. (1998). Being a child in the media age: The development of values. (Invited address) AND Cupit, C.G., Donnerstein, E., Kunkel, D. (1998). Are the supports adequate and what needs to be done. (Forum) Caring For Children In The Media Age. Conference held by the New College Institute for Values Research, University of NSW, Sydney and Young Media Australia, University of NSW, Sydney.

Cupit,C.G. (1997) Literacy in a world of electronic media. Conference of Literacy Focus Teachers, Adelaide, February.

Cupit,C.G. (1996) Spirituality as a construct in human development. Ninth Australasian Human Development Conference, Perth, April.

Cupit,C.G. & Zollo,C. (1996) Tapping the potential of flexible delivery for quality tertiary teaching and learning in regional centres. 4th Annual Conference of Australian Research in Early Childhood Education, Canberra, January.

Cheetham,M. & Cupit,C.G. (1994) The use of small screen media in early childhood centres. Good Beginnings Never End: 20th Triennial Conference, Australian Early Childhood Association, Perth, September.

Cupit,C.G. (1994) Valuing children. and Misleading children. Children and Advertising: A Fair Game? New College Institute for Values Research/Young Media Australia, Sydney, July. (Invited addresses)

Cupit,C.G. (1994) The Little Brute Family and chaos theory. 1st National Early Intervention Conference, Adelaide, March. (Invited address)

Conferences for Paraprofessionals

Cupit, C.G. (1998). Being a child in the media age: The development of values. (Invited address) and Baker, B., Cupit, C.G., Donnerstein, E., & Kunkel, D. (1998). Are the supports adequate and what needs to be done. (Forum) Caring For Children In The Media Age. Conference held at New College, University of NSW, Sydney.

Cupit, C. G. (1989). Building bridges of hope to children and families: Standing with children against the ugliness of society. Building Bridges of Hope to Broken Australians: Christian Workers Training Day, Melbourne, March. (Invited address)

Cupit, C. G. & Dixon, C. (1989).The world of the child; Buckland, R., Cupit, C. G., Dixon, C. & Tigwell, J. (1989). The disappearance of childhood; Anderson, W. E. C., Cupit, C. G. & Dixon, C. (1989). Evangelism and faith development; Anderson, W. E. C., Cupit, C. G. & Wilkey, S. (1989). The Holy Spirit and the child. Summer Institute on Children?s Evangelism, Melbourne, January. (Invited forum presentations)

Cupit, C. G. (1988). Adult programs - children?s eyes; or the adulteration of childhood and Television as an educator. 1988 BHP Australian Television Festival, Perth, February. (Invited addresses)

Seminars

Cupit, C. G. (2001). ‘Good intentions’ are not enough. Food advertising: Is TV feeding young Aussie children?. Seminar for the Advocacy Network on Food Advertising to Children, Adelaide, March. (Invited address.)

Cupit, C. G. (1997). Some perspectives on intervening in the interaction between children and violent media. Violence, the Media and Children, Seminar for Meerilinga Young Children’s Foundation, Perth, May. (Invited address)

Cupit, C. G. (1994). Issues and strategies involving research. Children and advertising: Future directions, Workshop conducted by the Federal Bureau of Consumer Affairs, Sydney, July. (Invited address)

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Child development

• Cognitive Development
• Media Influences
• Spirituality
• Child Development