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Biography
Manjula’s expertise focus on educational leadership, early childhood policy especially on quality matters, as well as child and family diversity, and professional learning, mentoring and career development of early childhood personnel. For her contribution to the study of early childhood educational leadership, Manjula was awarded a Honoris Causa in Education by the University of Tampere, Finland. Manjula has been exploring the conceptualisation and enactment of leadership within Early Childhood settings for almost two decades. She initiated the dialogue on theorising distributed leadership paradigm in Early Childhood settings, and this research continues to evolve through collaborations with Scandinavian researchers.
Manjula has an extensive track record of working in the Early Childhood sector in a variety of roles comprising being a classroom practitioner, a parent, a policy analyst, an advocate, a teacher educator, an academic writer and researcher. She has a deep knowledge of Early Childhood policy and practice built through teaching, research and active involvement in the sector for over three decades, including holding office in various community organisations including Early Childhood Australia and UNICEF Australia. Manjula’s continuing interests in cross-cultural research have been built through collaborations with colleagues from diverse countries especially those from Estonia, Finland, Malaysia, Norway, Singapore and South Africa. In connection with this work Manjula was appointed the Editor-in-Chief for Early Childhood Education by Bloomsbury Publishers. She is one of four international scholars who oversees the preparation of articles from around the world, for inclusion in Bloomsbury’s digital platform dedicated to Education and Childhood Studies (www.becs-bloomsbury.com).
External positions
Adjunct Professor (Docentship), University of Tampere
Sep 2008 → …Visiting Professor of Early Childhood Research, University of Oulu
1998 → 1999Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Manjula Waniganayake is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
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Projects
NSW Dept Edu: Mentoring and Coaching for New NSW Early Childhood Teachers
Hadley, F., Andrews, R., Waniganayake, M., Hay, I., Harrison, L. J. & Jones, C.
1/09/20 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
Singing with young children: The impact of regular singing on teacher-identified learning outcomes in early years programmes
1/01/19 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
Futuring Leadership Project
Waniganayake, M., Hadley, F., McCulla, N., Jones, C., Field, L., Touhill, L. & Robertson, G.
1/12/17 → …
Project: Research
Creating new frontiers in early childhood leadership through the reconceptualisation of educational leader preparation
17/07/16 → 17/01/17
Project: Research
Research Outputs
Better the devil you know? Internal and external candidacy for leadership roles in an Australian state school system
Steed, K., Waniganayake, M. & De Nobile, J., 2020, In : Issues in Educational Research. 30, 2, p. 709-735 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Early childhood educators’ workplace well-being: it’s everyone’s right!
Jones, C., Johnstone, M., Hadley, F. & Waniganayake, M., 9 Oct 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Australasian Journal of Early Childhood. p. 1-16 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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
Keeping children safe in out of school hours care
Hadley, F., Waniganayake, M., Mevawalla, Z., Jones, C., Blythin, S. & Beauchamp, D., 4 Sep 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Child Abuse Review. 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Merit selecting school leaders: Australian principals' perspectives
Steed, K., De Nobile, J. & Waniganayake, M., 25 Apr 2020, In : International Journal of Educational Management. 34, 8, p. 1303-1315 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Activities
NSW Education Standards Authority (External organisation)
Manjula Waniganayake (Member)May 2017 → Jul 2017
Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
Bloomsbury (Publisher)
Manjula Waniganayake (Editor in chief)2017 → 2020
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work
International Journal of Early Years Education (Journal)
Manjula Waniganayake (Member of editorial board)Jun 2017 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work
South African Journal of Early Childhood (Journal)
Manjula Waniganayake (Member of editorial board)Jan 2017 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work