Dr Lynn McNair
Lecturer in Early Childhood Practice and Froebel Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Email: lynn.mcnair@ed.ac.uk
Profile
Dr Lynn McNair is a Lecturer in Early Childhood Practice and Froebel /Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Lynn has 40 years’ experience working in Early Years Education and was awarded an OBE for services to Early Education in 2009. Lynn is a trained Froebelian, attaining her certificate at the Froebel Institute, Roehampton University, London, UK. Lynn is the Principal Investigator in Froebelian Futures. froebel@ed.ac.uk.
Research
Publications
- McNair, L. J. (2021) The Relationship Between Young Children’s Transitions and Power: ‘Why are all the doors locked? I don’t feel free...I am not in charge of me anymore.’ Children’s Geographies, DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2021.1952162
- Blaisdell, C., McNair, L.J., Addison, L. & Davis, J.M. (2021) ‘Why am I in all of these pictures?’ From Learning Stories to Lived Stories: the politics of children’s participation rights in documentation practices, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, DOI: 10.1080/1350293X.2021.2007970
- McNair, L. J., Blaisdell, C., Davis, J.M., & Addison, L.J. (2021) Acts of Pedagogical Resistance: Marking out an ethical boundary against human technologies. Policy Futures in Education.
- McNair. L. J., & Powell, S. (2020) Friedrich Froebel: a path least trodden, Early Child Development and Care, DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2020.1803299