Jessamy Davies

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Dr Jessamy Davies

B. Ed (Early Childhood) (Hons.), PhD (Education)

Lecturer in Teacher Education
Albury / Wodonga
Building 763, Room 114

Jessamy is a Lecturer within the School of Education at Charles Sturt University on the Albury-Wodonga campus. Jessamy holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood and Primary) (Honours Class 1) both from Charles Sturt University.

Jessamy has been working at Charles Sturt as a Lecturer in Education since 2013 teaching in a number of subjects in the Bachelor of Education (Birth-5), Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood and Primary) and Master of Education courses. Jessamy is passionate about teaching early childhood and primary education and about rural and regional education.

Jessamy’s doctoral study is titled ‘Pedagogies of educational transitions: Educator networks enhancing children’s transition to school in rural areas’ which formed part of a larger ARC-funded research project titled ‘Continuity and change in curriculum and pedagogies as children start school’.

Jessamy teaches across a range of early childhood and primary subjects both on campus and online within the Bachelor of Education (Birth-5) and Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood and Primary) degrees. Subjects taught include:

  • EPT326 – Early Childhood Professional Practice
  • EMA305 – Thinking and Learning through the Arts in Early Childhood
  • EEP421 – Educational Transitions in Multiple Contexts
  • EPT446 – Analysing Learning: The Early Years
  • EML106 – Everyday Language and Literacies: Learning and Practice
  • EMM106 – Mathematical and Scientific Learning in the Early Years
  • EMH205 – HSIE: Teaching about People, Places and the Past
  • EEB207 - Leading Healthy and Safe Environments

PhD research

Jessamy completed her doctoral study at Charles Sturt in 2019. The thesis is titled ‘Pedagogies of educational transitions: Educator networks enhancing children’s transition to school in rural areas’. The doctoral study formed part of a larger ARC-funded research project titled ‘Continuity and change in curriculum and pedagogies as children start school’. Chief investigators of the larger project and PhD supervisors were Emeritus Professors Sue Dockett and Bob Perry.

Research interests

  • Educational transitions (in particular, transition to school)
  • Rural and regional education
  • Teacher pedagogies
  • Early childhood curriculum
  • Continuity of learning
  • Early Childhood Australia (ECA)
  • Pedagogies of Educational Transitions (POET) Research Group
  • Charles Sturt Early Childhood Research Group
  • European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) Special Interest Group on Transitions