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Research interests

Her research interests include young children’s language and literacy, play-based learning, collaborative action research, northern rural and Indigenous education, children’s Indigenous language learning, feedback on writing, writing assessment and instruction, and children’s literature. One of her SSHRC-funded research projects is the Northern Oral language and Writing Project through Play (NOW Play) which includes early childhood educators, teachers, parents/caregivers, and community members from Indigenous communities, as well as university researchers in Canada, New Zealand, and Sweden. . Recently, she has co-edited the book Roles of place and play in young children’s oral and written language which was published by the University of Toronto Press.