“It’s a Combination of the Bible and What’s in Your Heart”: Unresolvable Tensions and Contested Narratives in a Southern Child Care Center

Authors

  • Allison Henward
  • Laurie MacGillivray

Abstract

This is an article for JCT Special Issue –Narrative of Curriculum in
the South: Lives In-Between Contested Race, Gender, Class, and Power

Author Biographies

Allison Henward

Allison Henward is an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Institute for Teacher Education and the Department of Curriculum Studies at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. She teaches Early Childhood Education courses to preservice teachers and Qualitative Methods and Analysis courses at the Graduate level. Her primary research interests are in childhood studies, educational anthropology, and cultural studies. Her research focuses on play, media and popular culture in the preschool classrooms. She is the author of several chapters and articles on children’s understanding and use of media and popular culture in situated communities. Most recently she has been studying media uses and understandings of children who are precariously housed and homeless in the Southern region of the United States.

Laurie MacGillivray

Laurie MacGillivray is a Professor of Literacy in the College of Education at the University of Memphis. She taught elementary school in Texas. Her research focuses on the literacy practices in and out of schools by individuals and families with particular attention to mothers and children who are homeless. She has published widely in journals such at Curriculum Inquiry, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Journal of Latinos in Education, The Reading Teacher, Journal of Research in Childhood Education, and the Bilingual Research Journal. She regularly presents at the Literacy Research Association and the American Educational Research Association. She recently edited a book Literacy in Times of Crisis: Practices and Procedures.

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Published

2013-02-25

Issue

Vol. 28 No. 3 (2012): Journal of Curriculum Theorizing

Section

General Themes

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