In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Jaye Johnson Thiel, an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Studies at the University of Alabama. Growing up as a woman from a Southern working-class family, she is deeply committed to justice- oriented approaches to childhood studies. Her scholarship works against deficit discourses about young people and their families, theorizes place- based and arts-based practices for community research, and explores the playful and artistic engagements of young people growing up in the Southeastern United States.

We also had a special guest for this episode, Dr. Christine Marmé Thompson.

If you have not yet had the pleasure of reviewing her earlier presentation, please take some time to visit our website at www.centerforthestudyofchildhoodart.com. There, on the Childhood Art Speaker Series page, you will find a recording of her presentation, which links to the CSCA YouTube Channel. We highly recommend you take the time to listen to and reflect on the ideas shared as part of this presentation, and to consider, too, the generative possibilities of Kortney's work.

Hosts: Dr. Christopher M. Schulte and Dr. Hayon Park. Music by penguinmusic from Pixabay

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Kortney Sherbine, an independent researcher interested in the play and literacies of young children. With eighteen years of experience as an early childhood teacher and teacher educator, Kortney's teaching and research interests invoke posthumanist perspectives on language and literacy, which take into account the material intra-actions between young children and things that they encounter in their personal ecologies, particularly related to popular culture. Across her work, Kortney is concerned with what comes to "count" as meaningful literacy and play and the conditions under which certain literacies and play are ostracized or "othered."

If you have not yet had the pleasure of reviewing her earlier presentation, please take some time to visit our website at www.centerforthestudyofchildhoodart.com. There, on the Childhood Art Speaker Series page, you will find a recording of her presentation, which links to the CSCA YouTube Channel. We highly recommend you take the time to listen to and reflect on the ideas shared as part of this presentation, and to consider, too, the generative possibilities of Kortney's work.

Hosts: Dr. Christopher M. Schulte and Dr. Hayon Park. Music by tobylane from Pixabay