Constance Davey

Constance Muriel Davey OBE (4 Disamba 1882 - 4 Disamba 1963) masanin ilimin halayyar dan adam ne na Australiya wanda ya yi aiki a Ma'aikatar Ilimi ta Kudancin Australia, inda ta gabatar da darussan ilimi na musamman na farko na jihar.

 Tarihin rayuwa 
An haifi Davey a shekara ta 1882 a Nuriootpa, Kudancin Australia, ga Emily Mary (née Roberts) da Stephen Henry Davey . Ta fara koyarwa a wata makarantar masu zaman kansu ta Port Adelaide a 1908 kuma a Makarantar 'yan mata ta St Peter's Collegiate a 1909. Ta halarci Jami'ar Adelaide a matsayin dalibi na ɗan lokaci, ta kammala B.A. a falsafar a 1915 da MA a 1918. A shekara ta 1921 ta sami kyautar Catherine Helen Spence Memorial Scholarship wanda ya ba ta damar yin digiri a Jami'ar London; Babban bangaren bincikenta shine "kwarewar tunani da rashi" a cikin yara. Ta sami digirin digirin digirinta a 1924 kuma ta ziyarci Amurka da Kanada don lura da koyarwar yara masu nakasa da masu laifi kafin ta koma Ostiraliya.
A watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 1924 an hayar da Davey a matsayin masanin ilimin halayyar dan adam na farko a Ma'aikatar Ilimi ta Kudancin Australia, inda aka ba ta aiki tare da jarrabawa da shirya azuzuwan ɗaliban makaranta "da baya, masu jinkiri da matsala". Ta bincika kuma ta yi gwaje-gwaje na leken asiri a kan dukkan yara masu jinkirin ilimi,  kuma ta kafa "aji na dama" na farko na Kudancin Australia ga waɗannan yara a cikin 1925.  Ta kafa wata hanya wacce ta ilimantar da malamai kan aiki tare da yara masu nakasa a cikin 1931. Ta fara koyar da ilimin halayyar dan adam a Jami'ar Adelaide a 1927, ta ci gaba har zuwa 1950, kuma a 1938 ta taimaka wajen kafa sabon karatun jami'a don horar da ma'aikatan zamantakewa. Ta yi murabus daga Ma'aikatar Ilimi a shekarar 1942, inda akwai yara 700 a cikin darussan da ta gabatar.

Davey ta kasance memba na Ƙungiyar Siyasa ta Mata ba ta Jam'iyya ba na tsawon shekaru 30 kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin shugaban kungiyar daga 1943 zuwa 1947. 

Ta zama abokiyar kungiyar British Psychological Society a shekarar 1950 kuma an nada ta Jami'in Order of the British Empire (OBE) a shekarar 1955. 

A watan Yunin 1951, ta jagoranci, tare da Phyllis Duguid, wakili daga League of Women Voters zuwa Gwamnatin Playford, don ba da izinin mata masu juri a Kudancin Australia. Ba ta yi nasara ba, ta jagoranci wani wakili a 1955 amma ta sami irin wannan amsa. Ba har zuwa 1962 ba ne aka ba wa mata na Kudancin Australia damar zama a matsayin masu juriya, lokacin da wakilin da Roma Mitchell ke jagoranta ya ci nasara.

A shekara ta 1956, ta wallafa Children and Their Law-makers,  wani binciken tarihi na dokar Kudancin Australia kamar yadda ya shafi yara, wanda ta fara a 1945 a matsayin babban jami'in bincike a Jami'ar Adelaide. 

Davey ta mutu daga Ciwon daji na thyroid a ranar haihuwarta ta 81 a 1963.

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