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Gaile S. Cannella

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Gaile S. Cannella is an independent scholar and series editor for Childhood Studies (formerly Rethinking Childhood) and Post-Anthropocentric Inquiry (Peter Lang). She held the Velma E. Schmidt Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Studies, University of North Texas and was tenured professor at Arizona State University-Tempe and Texas A&M University-College Station. Published in English, Korean, and Spanish, her books include: Deconstructing Early Childhood Education; Critical Qualitative Research Reader (with Shirley Steinberg), an American Education Studies Association Critics Choice Book Award winner in 2012; and Critical Qualitative Inquiry (2015, with Michelle Salazar Pérez and Penny A. Pasque).
Dr. Cannella has published in a range of journals including Qualitative Inquiry and Cultural Studies-Cultural Methodologies.
Michelle Salazar Pérez is Assistant Professor of Early Childhood at New Mexico State University. She has been a practitioner in a variety of early childhood settings and coordinated an urban education student teaching program in Houston, Texas. Her research uses marginalized feminist perspectives and critical qualitative methodologies to examine contemporary performances of neoliberalism within public policy.
I-Fang Lee is Senior Lecturer of Early Childhood Education and Education Policy Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research interests focus on contemporary issues relating to changes and reforms in early childhood care and education, constructions of Asian childhoods, and global knowledge on appropriate pedagogical practices in the early
years. Lee’s recent research projects focus on early childhood care and education reforms concerning issues of equity.

Gaile S. Cannella Books

Walking with Strangers book cover

Walking with Strangers

Gaile S. Cannella
Living Stories book cover

Living Stories

Gaile S. Cannella
Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education and Care—A Reader book cover

Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education and Care—A Reader

Gaile S. Cannella
Disrupting Data in Qualitative Inquiry book cover

Disrupting Data in Qualitative Inquiry

Gaile S. Cannella
Inside the 'Inclusive' Early Childhood Classroom book cover

Inside the 'Inclusive' Early Childhood Classroom

Gaile S. Cannella
Voices of Early Childhood Educators book cover

Voices of Early Childhood Educators

Gaile S. Cannella
Disrupting Gendered Pedagogies in the Early Childhood Classroom book cover

Disrupting Gendered Pedagogies in the Early Childhood Classroom

Gaile S. Cannella
Storying Learning in Early Childhood book cover

Storying Learning in Early Childhood

Gaile S. Cannella
Place, Being, Resonance book cover

Place, Being, Resonance

Gaile S. Cannella
Critical Examinations of Quality in Early Education and Care book cover

Critical Examinations of Quality in Early Education and Care

Gaile S. Cannella
Conducting Hermeneutic Research book cover

Conducting Hermeneutic Research

Shirley R. Steinberg
Artistic Research Methodology book cover

Artistic Research Methodology

Gaile S. Cannella
Interrogating (Hi)stories book cover

Interrogating (Hi)stories

Gaile S. Cannella
Childrenʼs Rights and Education book cover

Childrenʼs Rights and Education

Gaile S. Cannella
Re-situating Canadian Early Childhood Education book cover

Re-situating Canadian Early Childhood Education

Gaile S. Cannella
Media Literacy is Elementary book cover

Media Literacy is Elementary

Gaile S. Cannella
Unsettling Research book cover

Unsettling Research

Gaile S. Cannella
Storying book cover

Storying

Gaile S. Cannella
How Stories Heal book cover

How Stories Heal

Gaile S. Cannella
Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry book cover

Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry

Gaile S. Cannella
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