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Research Areas and Projects
Faculty members at Ryerson’s School of Early Childhood Studies lead inventive and innovative research projects that advance the wellbeing of children and families.
Our faculty members regularly making important research contributions to policy, practice and teaching. They explore:
- Educators, care and education in early childhood.
- Early childhood pedagogies.
- Creativity and the arts.
- Disability, difference and inclusion.
- Children and designed and natural environments.
- Language and literacy.
- Equity, diversity and social justice.
- Immigrant and refugee children and families.
- Child and family well-being.
- Children’s rights.
- Early childhood public policy development and change.
- Diverse methods of inquiry such as arts-based, participatory, post-structural, feminist and research with children.
Browse our people to view their publications and gain insight into the research projects they lead, or find a researcher by keyword search.
Make evidence-informed decisions in policy and practice. Read a selection of plain language research summaries, and discover key practice and policy insights.
- Young mothers empowered in a context of support
- Partnerships in full-day kindergarten classrooms: Early childhood educators and kindergarten teachers working together, opens in new window
- Young children expressing their identity through the arts, opens in new window
- Children’s perceptions about starting kindergarten, opens in new window
- Parent and family perception of engagement in the early years program, opens in new window
- Children’s literacy through the arts, opens in new window
- Play-based interview methods for exploring young children’s perspectives on inclusion, opens in new window
- Involving and engaging parents of children with individual education plans, opens in new window
- Young peoples’ participation in the construction of their learning disability labels, opens in new window
- Play-based interview methods for exploring young children’s perspectives on inclusion, opens in new window