Hazel Harrison (teacher)

Hazel Joyce Harrison (22 June 1905 – 29 May 1970) was an Australian expert on child development.

She then began her long association with the Brisbane Kindergarten Teachers College where she completed her studies in 1925.

[2] In 1939 she became a lecturer at the Kindergarten Teachers' Training College, North Adelaide and she became its transformative director in 1940.

She and the child development expert John Bowlby looked critically at existing pre-school education.

She and Dr Rupert P. Goodman created a new curriculum which encouraged students to support children through every stage of their environment.