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Fay Hadley holds the position of Director: Initial Teacher Education in the Department of Educational Studies and is a Senior Lecturer who specialises in leadership in early childhood education, working with families and professional experience.
Research: Fay’s primary area of research examines leadership in early childhood education. This includes investigating mentoring, professional learning and career pathways for early childhood teachers. She is especially interested in the socio-political environment and how this affects early childhood teachers’ work.
Fay also researches in partnerships with diverse families in educational settings and the impacts this has on educational outcomes for children. This was the focus of Fay’s PhD and has led to her extend on these findings with studies with early childhood centres in NSW and the ACT.
Fay was the Chief Investigator on an Enterprise Partnership Scheme Research Project with a before and after school provider, Primary OSHCare. This research aims to develop an understanding of how Primary OSHCare educators and managers perceive the management of child protection matters in relation to the risk of significant harm through abuse and neglect.
Fay supervises Higher Degree Research students whose projects lie within her areas of research specialisation.
Teaching: Fay teaches in the undergraduate and postgraduate early childhood programs offered by the Department of Educational Studies. She currently convenes
- ECHP222: Professional Experience 2
- ECH326: Children, Families and Communities in a Diverse Society
- ECED820: Families in Context
Teaching awards: In 2012, Fay, along with her colleagues Dr Katey De Gioia and Dr Kate Highfield, was a recipient of the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Programs that Enhance Learning for the program entitled Supporting international students during Professional Experience as well as a Recipient of the Deans Award for Programs that Enhance Learning for the same program.
Community: Fay is currently the chair of Early Childhood Australia Publications Committee. She is on the editorial board for Australasian Journal of Early Childhood and was previously the Deputy Editor of the journal. Fay contributes to the early childhood sector as an active member of Early Childhood Australia, which is the nationally advocacy peak body for early childhood.
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Projects
Futuring Leadership Project
Waniganayake, M., Hadley, F., McCulla, N., Jones, C., Field, L., Touhill, L. & Robertson, G.
1/12/17 → …
Project: Research
'Let's go to the museum': An investigation of the expectations and learning engagement of prior-to-school aged children and their families.
Degotardi, S., De Gioia, K., Papic, M., Little, H., Highfield, K., Hadley, F. & Colliver, Y.
24/05/16 → 23/12/17
Project: Research
Research Outputs
Insights on mentoring practices within the early childhood sector in Singapore
Wong, D., Waniganayake, M. & Hadley, F., 2020, Mentoring and coaching in early childhood education. Gasper, M. & Walker, R. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 89-98 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Practitioner and foster carer perceptions of the support needs of young parents in and exiting out-of-home care: A systematic review
Gill, A., Grace, R., Waniganayake, M. & Hadley, F., Jan 2020, In : Children and Youth Services Review. 108, p. 1-12 12 p., 104512.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Practitioner inquiry as a professional learning strategy to support technology integration in early learning centres: Building understanding through Rogoff’s planes of analysis
Johnston, K., Hadley, F. & Waniganayake, M., 2020, In : Professional Development in Education. 46, 1, p. 49-64 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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(Scopus)
2019 AJEC Research Symposium: Editorial
Hadley, F., 1 Sep 2019, In : Australasian Journal of Early Childhood. 44, 3, p. 213-214 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood – Editorial
Hadley, F., 1 Jun 2019, In : Australasian Journal of Early Childhood. 44, 2, p. 109-110 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Prizes
Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Programs that Enhance Learning
Kathryn De Gioia (Team leader), Fay Hadley (Recipient) & Katherine Highfield (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Teaching award