Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
I was the National Australia Bank, Yachad Scholar 2004 and am using the outcomes of a study tour in Israel as a cross cultural study dimension to explore the impacts of trauma for young children on their emerging social competence as part of my PhD study.
Currently a lecturer in Early Childhood Education at Monash University where she has taken a number of leadership roles including Early Childhood Course Leader for 5 years. I have worked in a range of different childrens service types including long day care, sessional kindergarten and family support programmes as well as 5 years as President of the Kindergarten Teachers Association of Victoria, representing the needs of early childhood educators. I stood down as Victorian Branch President of Early Childhood Australia in 2009 and was a member of the ECA, Victorian Branch Qualifications Approval committee for Early Childhood professionals until 2011.
I have a range of research interests including the professionalism of the Early Childhood field and pedagogical and curriculum approaches. I have also participated in two summer schools in Moscow, Russia exploring the application of Vygotskys theories of development to teaching practices. My particular research interests are in the area of childrens social competence and the role of emotions. Within this context she has explored looking at the role that Early Childhood professionals can play in supporting children who have experienced trauma.
I was the National Australia Bank, Yachad Scholar 2004 and am using the outcomes of a study tour in Israel as a cross cultural study dimension to explore the impacts of trauma for young children on their emerging social competence as part of my PhD study.
Research interests
- Social and Emotional Development of young children
- The impacts of trauma, child abuse and neglect
- Teachers' legal responsibilities.
- The emergence of social competence in young children
Supervision interests
Teaching Resilience for Children
Monash teaching commitment
- EDF5411
- EDF1305
- EDF4323
- EDF4324
- EDF4326
- EDF3324
Research area keywords
- Teaching Resilience for Children
- Social development
- Emotional development
- Young children
- Impacts of trauma, child abuse and neglect
- Teachers legal responsibilities
- Social competence in young children
Projects
Respectful Relationships Early Childhood Professional Learning
Hammer, M., Agbenyega, J., Fleer, M., Monk, H., Adams, M., Li, L., Veresov, N., Rivalland, C., Quinones Goytortua, G., Hansen, J., Babaeff, R., Laletas, S. & Hamdillah, C.
Department of Education and Training (VIC)
24/10/17 → 30/06/20
Project: Research
Supporting educators to build children's social and emotional wellbeing and mental health
Reupert, A., Laletas, S., Swalwell, J., Roberts, W. P., Hammer, M. & Evans, J.
15/06/17 → 30/06/18
Project: Research
Early Year Learning Framework Baseline Study
Fleer, M., Agbenyega, J., Bone, J., Hammer, M., Peers, C., Power, K., Ridgway, A. & Shah, C.
1/06/11 → 28/02/12
Project: Research
Contemporary Child Development Theory for Early Childhood Educators
Fleer, M., Agbenyega, J., Bone, J., Hammer, M., Monk, H., Peers, C., Ridgway, A. & Rivalland, C.
1/04/10 → 31/01/11
Project: Research
Early Years Learning Framework Discussion Paper
Nuttall, J., Edwards, S. E., Fleer, M. & Hammer, M.
18/04/08 → 30/07/08
Project: Research
Research Output
Intentional teaching: can early-childhood educators create the conditions for children’s conceptual development when following a child-centred programme?
Lewis, R., Fleer, M. & Hammer, M., 1 Mar 2019, In : Australasian Journal of Early Childhood. 44, 1, p. 6-18 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Rethinking Assessments: Creating a New Tool Using the Zone Of Proximal Development within a Cultural-Historical Framework
Minson, V. J., Hammer, M. D. & Veresov, N., 2016, In : Cultural-Historical Psychology. 12, 3, p. 331-337 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
A cultural-historical reading of the emotional development of young children
Fleer, M., Hammer, M. D. & March, S. E., 2014, In : Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education. 8, 2, p. 47 - 67 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Repertoires of cultural practices for enacting play and learning in a playgroup
Fleer, M. & Hammer, M. D., 2014, In : International Research in Early Childhood Education. 5, 1, p. 42 - 55 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Emotions in imaginative situations: the valued place of fairytales for supporting emotion regulation
Fleer, M. & Hammer, M. D., 2013, In : Mind, Culture, and Activity: An International Journal. 20, 3, p. 240 - 259 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Citations
(Scopus)
Prizes
Inter-Faculty Transformation Seeding Grant
Liang Li (Recipient), Mong-Lin Yu (Recipient) & Marie D Hammer (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)