Kathryn Underwood
Kathryn Underwood
Professor, School of Early Childhood Studies and Dimensions, Faculty Chair for the Faculty of Community Services, Toronto Metropolitan University
My work focuses on equity and disability issues in early childhood studies, as well as in education, care and intervention social policy and practice. I use critical disability theory as a starting point for understanding how society responds to and constructs childhood through social institutions. My research has spanned work in family-school relationships, special education policy, and inclusive early childhood education and care policy, both in Canada and internationally. I have been involved with over 20 research projects, with funding from government, the not-for-profit sector, and private foundations.
Projects and Publications
Underwood, K. (2008). The construction of disability in our schools: Teacher and Parent perspectives on the experience of labelled students. R. Slee (Ed.) Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense.
Church, K., Vorstermans, J. & Underwood, K. (accepted). The institutional production of childhood disability: A visual record. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.
Underwood, K., Thompson, A., & Martin, J. (in press). Institutional mapping as professional development: Understanding the relations of early intervention. Journal of Early Childhood Research.
Underwood, K., Frankel, E., Spalding, K., & Brophy, K. (in press). Is the right to early intervention being honoured? Canadian Journal of Children’s Rights.