Catherine-Laura Dunnington (formerly Tremblay-Dion) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg. Her work focuses on literacy, early childhood education, and arts-based learning. She has been published in the International Journal of Education and the Arts, Bookbird: An International Journal of Children’s Literature, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: Monitor, Education Review, and Root & Star Magazine. She is chair of the board at Dartmouth Daycare, a non-profit childcare centre in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
PhD in Education, 2020
University of Ottawa
MEd in Curriculum Studies, 2012
University of Montana
BA in Women and Gender Studies, 2009
University of Vermont
This reading was part of a year-long project that saw us collaborating with six expert preschool teachers and over 60 preschool students across three different senior-level preschool classrooms.
Focusing on the dystopian young adult novel, The Secret Under My Skin (McNaughton, 2000), we make generous use of Rosenblatt’s (1995) transactional theory of reader response to critically inquire into past experiences that shape our recurrent views and actions in the classroom. We express our back-and-forth transactions in interspersing sections of poetry, prose and image, including emerging questions to consider as starting points for future engagement with teachers on the integration of sustainability education into the English language arts curriculum at the secondary school level.
Three preschool classrooms break open The Heart and the Bottle and sit with hard feelings. Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature
In American Educational Research Association 2019 Annual Meeting
Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature 56(4)
International Journal of Education and the Arts 18(39)