Welcome! You’ve found your way to the professional website of Noah Kenneally, PhD. I’m a childhood researcher, and an assistant professor in the Bachelor of Early Childhood Curriculum Studies Program at MacEwan University in ᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ Amiskwacî Wâskahikan/Edmonton, Alberta, Treaty 6 Territory.
In the BECCS program I teach the following courses: ECCS180 Family-Centred Practice and ECCS260 Family and Community Issues, our two foundational family studies courses; ECCS410 Understanding Research in Early Childhood; and ECCS440 Professional Practices: Ethics, Caring, and Social Activism. I also support students in their field education as they learn to apply their developing skills and knowledge in field placement, in the following courses – ECCS120 Field Placement I: Well-Being; ECCS170 Field Placement II: Play and Playfulness; ECCS220 Field Placement III: Communication and Literacy; ECCS270 Field Placement IV: Diversity and Social Responsibility; and in first year Integration Seminars ECCS125/175.
My research interests are children’s perspectives; theories of interdependent socialization; relational ontologies and epistemologies of childhood; relational approaches to children’s rights; integrating children’s rights and ethics of care approaches into early childhood communities; the politics of childhood; family support and family issues; knowledge generation/creation/production; comics research; and creative research methodologies and inquiry/analytic practices.
I completed my doctoral studies in the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto. My doctoral research project used comics and narrative research to collaboratively explore children’s and parents’ ideas about childhood and parenthood.
I spent some time as a contract lecturer in the School of Early Childhood Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), where I taught the undergraduate courses CLD332 Families in Canadian Context II, CLD448 Childhood in a Global Context, and CLD342 Assessment for Programming. During the first COVID-19 quarantines, I supported students as their Faculty Advisor in the CCLD464 Senior Internship course, facilitating small groups of remote-format research placements. I also taught the graduate course CS8930 Social Research with Children in the School’s Master’s of Early Childhood Studies program.
More information about my current cv, publications, presentations, dissertation, and research can be found by clicking the headings above – Curriculum Vitae, Publications, Presentations, Dissertation, and Research. The Blog section of this website contains examples of some of my comics research.
Noah Kenneally, PhD. 