Catherine-Laura Dunnington

Title: Assistant Professor
Email: c.dunnington@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Catherine-Laura Dunnington holds a Ph.D. in education from the University of Ottawa and an M.Ed. from the University of Montana. Her work focuses on intersections of materiality, early childhood, literacy, and embodiment. She has written for the Bank Street College of Education’s Occasional Paper Series, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, and the International Journal of Education & the Arts. She has been Chair of the Board at Dartmouth Daycare Centre for the past five years.

Teaching Areas:

Observation & Assessment; Early Literacy; Play and Slow Pedagogy

Courses:

Observation and Evaluation Techniques in Child Care Settings (DEV 2004)

Special Topics in Developmental Studies (DEV 3600)

Research Interests:

embodied early literacy; post-humanist theories of early childhood; arts-based literacy