Kay, Louise

The University of Sheffield
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9740-3564
United Kingdom

Dr Louise Kay is a Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on curricular and assessment policy frameworks in Early Childhood Education, and the impact that these have on teachers, children and parents. Further interests include STEAM education in Eary Childhood Education, play, pedagogy, workforce professionalism, and policy analysis.

Contributions

  • It’s All about the Toys!
    Editorial
    Toys: quintessentially the objects of childhood, their role in culture is anything but child’s play. Toys offer a site for young children to learn anything and everything from the commodification of time, through gendered and racial positioning of subjectivities (or the subversion of these positionings), through to social expectations around reading, sharing, and relative wealth and access....Read more
    M/C Journal Vol. 26 No. 2 (2023): toys