Linda Mitchell

Linda Mitchell is Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Division of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Her current research is in early childhood education policy; teachers’ work; refugee and immigrant families in early childhood education; and democracy in education. She is working with Timorese collaborators to support play-based pedagogy in preschools in Timor Leste. She has a Leverhulme grant for a visiting professorship to Manchester Metropolitan University in 2021 and 2022 where she will facilitate a robust theorisation of democratic education and its practices that will be applicable to all education settings from birth through lifelong learning.