Dr Fatma Busra Aksoy-Kumru
Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Turkey
Email: busra.kumru@iuc.edu.tr
Profile
Busra Kumru specialises in integrating children's human rights in the early years through creating agentic spaces within rights-based pedagogies. Her main interests are childhood studies, children's rights, sociology and ethnography of childhood, contemporary and innovative research with children and practitioners, international perspectives on the theory and practice of early childhood education, and ethics in social research.
Research
Publications
- Aksoy-Kumru, F.B. (2024). What does it (not) mean to be “Froebelian”?: exploring Scottish early years professionals’ perspectives. Early Years: An International Research Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2024.2307537
- Aksoy-Kumru, F.B. (2024). Exploring children’s participation from Froebelian perspectives in Scottish context. European Early Childhood Research Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2023.2301584
- Aksoy-Kumru, F.B., Yılmaz, A. (2023). Temel Çocukluk Çalışmaları Kavramlarının Türkiye Bağlamında Yeniden Ele Alınması: Fail, Yetkin ve Katılımcı Çocuk (ENG: Unpacking Key Childhood Concepts in Turkish Context: Agency, Competency and Participation). Yaşadıkça Eğitim 38(1), pp. 230-244.