Professor Julie Garlen
Professor of Teacher Education, University of Toronto, Canada
Email: julie.garlen@utoronto.ca
Profile
Julie C. Garlen (she/her) is a critical cultural theorist of childhood and curriculum and Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto. Previously, she worked at Carleton University and, prior to that, in the U.S. South as an elementary school teacher and an early childhood teacher educator.
Research
Publications
Garlen, J.C. and Ramjewan, N. (eds) (2023). Refusing the Limits of Contemporary Childhood: Beyond Innocence. Lexington Books.
Garlen, J.C., and Hembruff, S. (2022). Children as ‘difference makers’: viral discourses of
childhood innocence and activism in #Blacklivesmatter, Children's Geographies,
https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2022.2142037
Garlen, J.C. (2021). The End of Innocence: Reimagining Childhood for a Post-Pandemic World.The Journal of Teaching and Learning. 15(2), 21-39. https://doi.org/10.22329/JTL.V15I2.6724
Garlen, J.C., Chang-Kredl, S., Farley, L., & Sonu, D. (2021). Childhood innocence and experience: Memory, discourse, and practice. Children & Society, 35 (5), 648–662. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12428
Garlen, J.C. (2019). Interrogating innocence: “Childhood” as exclusionary social practice. Childhood, 26(1), 54–67.