Jaydene Barnes

Jaydene Barnes is an Associate Lecturer at Western Sydney University currently undertaking her PhD through Western Sydney University investigating play based pedagogies in Australian primary schools. Jaydene received her Master of Education (Literacies and Literate Worlds) from Charles Sturt University in 2011. Her passion is studying pedagogies in both primary school and early childhood contexts and exploring new opportunities to foster student engagement, well-being and literacy learning.