Geng, Gretchen https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3087-6567
Green, Kathy https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6478-8929
Telford, Amanda https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2813-250X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Flinders University
Article History
Received: 14 November 2024
Accepted: 1 February 2026
First Online: 9 March 2026
Declarations
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: This research has obtained full ethical clearance (Ethics application: 2023-3299H) from the Ethics Committee in Australian Catholic University.
: Information sheets were then sent to the school principal, school teachers, and parents. Consents were collected from the principal, school teachers and parents. Moreover, before the AR teaching sessions (experiment), all the participating students were asked again to give verbal assent to participate in the project, after their parents’ consent letters were collected.
: Consent forms were collected from the participants, and verbal assent was also collected from the participating children to participate.
: Participants have given consent in the consent form. (1). Parents’ consent: I understand the data collected will be analysed for publication and report purposes. I understand my child/ren’s names, faces or other personal information will be non-identifiable in any report or publications, and I give permission for non-identifiable video clips and photos my child/ren to be used in scholarly journal articles, book chapters and educational conference presentations reporting on the research findings. (2). Teachers’ consent: I understand the data collected will be analysed for publication and report purposes. I understand my name, face or other personal information will be non-identifiable in any report or publications, and I give permission for non-identifiable video clips and photos to be used in scholarly journal articles, book chapters and educational conference presentations reporting on the research findings.
: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
: This research involves human participants, and has obtained full ethical clearance (Ethics application: 2023-3299H) from the Research Committee in Australian Catholic University.