Toronto Metropolitan University
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Judith K. Bernhard

Migration; Early childhood education

Toronto, Canada

Tenured Full Professor with over 25 years of university teaching and research experience in the areas of diverse children and families in early childhood education settings. Along with my colleagues at TMU, we set up an MA program in Early Childhood Studies focusing on equity issues. I am also affiliated with MA program in Immigration and Settlement Studies and PhD in Policy Studies. Some interdisciplinary projects: a) critique of the view that the stages of child development described in standard text-books are universally (cross-culturally) valid. My work expands on approaches to parenting styles that assume Western norms are applicable to all, resulting in children labelled as in need of remedial programs, b) exploration of migrant families with precarious legal status and how they may be empowered to deal successfully with the educational system, c)supporting bilingualism, helping parent and teacher groups with interventions inspired by methods from Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

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  • Marlinda Freire

  • Luin Goldring

  • Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw

  • Patricia Landolt

  • Gyda Chud

  • Marie Louise Lefebvre

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