Professor Julie Garlen

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. (2021). The end of innocence: Childhood and schooling for a post-pandemic world. 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.

Expertise