Jennifer Keys Adair, PhD
University Teaching
GRADUATE COURSES
Major Theorists in Early Childhood:
PhD/MA course focused on a broad and diverse list of foundational theorists/educators who have impacted the ECE field and their ongoing influence on policy and practice.
Research in Early Childhood:
PhD/MA course focused on conducting research and the components of a study and publication.
Educational Ethnography:
PhD course focused on ethnography as a research method concerned with education, schooling, contexts and cultural practices.
Global, Comparative Early Childhood:
PHD/MA course focused on global perspectives of young children and early learning as well as comparative research design.
Parents and Education:
PhD/MA course on parent/teacher/school/community relationships and how schools can improve the ways they listen to and take seriously parental and community ideas about education.
Introduction to Teaching and Teacher Education:
PhD foundations course detailing the history of teacher research and teacher education as well as contemporary issues facing the field of teacher education.
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
Play and Early Development:
Undergraduate course focused on how children's play and development is impacted by biological, social, cultural and political forces.
Teaching Young Children:
Undergraduate course in early childhood educational theory and practice, focused on preschool – grade 3.