Dr Jo Albin-Clark

Profile

Biography

I am a qualified teacher with a specialism of working with young children aged 3 to 7 years. I have held roles as a Deputy Headteacher, Early Years Advisory Teacher, Maintained Nursery School Senior Teacher and pedagogue to Children’s Centres.

Research Interests

My current research focuses on early childhood education documentation practices through posthuman, feminist materialism and post qualitative theories.  I have wider research interests in affective theories, rights and agency narratives along with resistance practices to dominant discourses. 

Research Group(s)

Child Agency and Rights in Education Research Network Children’s Rights and Wellbeing Network | Edge Hill University

Bag lady storytelling feminist collective Dr Liz Latto, Louise Hawxwell and Dr Julie Ovington (2020-present)

Resistance in early childhood education  Dr Nathan Archer, Leeds University (2020-present)

Teaching

I teach across undergraduate and postgraduate early years programmes. I lead the Early Years pathway of the MA programme MA Education (Early Years) | Edge Hill University and supervise Masters and PhD students. 

• Becoming-with response-ability: How does diffracting posthuman ontologies with multi-modal sensory ethnography spark a multiplying femifesta/manifesta of noticing, attentiveness and doings in relation to mundane politics and more-than-human pedagogies of response-ability?

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