Abstract
I’m honored and delighted to welcome Cassie Brownell to a growing community of early childhood play researchers. In one sense, welcoming implies an unequal power relation where an established member of a community introduces an unknown newcomer. This feels a bit disingenuous. Cassie is already a rising star in our field and really needs no introduction! Her work is part of an exciting new trend in literacy research that blends play with social activism and community building.
Author Biography
Karen Wohlwend
Karen Wohlwend is a professor of literacy, culture, and
language education at Indiana University, Bloomington. She
studies young children’s play as an embodied literacy that
produces action texts made with moving bodies in dramatic
play centers, video games, digital animation apps, or liveaction filmmaking. Current literacy playshop projects focus
on play in early childhood classrooms, makerspaces, and
children’s museums. Her books include Literacy Playshop: New
Literacies, Popular Media, and Play in the Early Childhood Classroom and Literacies that
Move and Matter: Nexus Analysis for Contemporary Childhoods.
Recommended Citation
Wohlwend, K.
(2021).
Welcoming Play in Times of Trauma: A Response to Cassie Brownell.
Occasional Paper Series,
(45).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58295/2375-3668.1410
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