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Research interests

As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Brownell’s early work used qualitative modes of inquiry to critically consider how education might become more inclusive of children’s cultural and modal ways of knowing while her more recent research considers children’s political socialization. In 2022, Dr. Brownell was awarded nearly $250,000 from the Canadian government for an international collaborative project entitled “Sensory stories of environmental stewardship: A cross–coastal constellation of children, cultivating, crafting, and communicating nature narratives” which focuses on innovative research methods for working with young children in the time of COVID-19. She has also been collaborating on the NOW Play project.