Rachel Heydon
Biographic Data
| ID | 131301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Heydon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Heydon |
| SIGNATURE | HEYDON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5902-7342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Family literacies during the Covid-19 lockdown: Semiotic assemblages and meaning making at home
Guidelines for virtual early childhood and family learning: An equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization-informed systematic review of the literature
This article presents an equity-informed systematic review of research pertinent to the offering of virtual early childhood education programming to young children and their families. Findings are presented as guidelines which may shape the delivery of future programming within virtual contexts. These findings are organized within three major areas that were identified through the methodology: Building Connections and Fostering Online Relationshi…
Training Pre-Service Early Childhood Educators in Physical Activity (Teach): Protocol for a Quasi-Experimental Study
The TEACH study represents a novel, evidence-informed approach to address the existing gap in physical activity and sedentary behaviour-related education in Canadian post-secondary early childhood education programs. Moreover, e-Learning platforms, can be employed as an innovative, standardized, and scalable way to provide ECEs with consistent training across jurisdictions
Change in pre- and in-service early childhood educators’ knowledge, self-efficacy, and intentions following an e-learning course in physical activity and sedentary behaviour: A pilot study
These findings provide preliminary evidence of the potential efficacy of the e-Learning course at improving ECEs' knowledge, self-efficacy, behavioural intention, and perceived behavioural control to support PA and minimize SB in childcare. Following the success of the pilot study, testing the effectiveness of the TEACH e-Learning course on a larger scale, with a comparison group, is warranted prior to recommending broader dissemination of the tr…
The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing: Wellbeing
Several studies have shown that speech production can deteriorate significantly with age.Results demonstrate strong sex-specific changes in speaking fundamental frequency (F0)1, whereby the pitch of a woman's voice becomes lower with age and the pitch of a man's voice becomes higher (e.g
Enabled to play, enabled to explore: Children's Civic Engagement, Literacies, and Teacher Professional Learning
Drawing from a multiple-case study of professional learning in literacy, this article presents vignettes from a Grade 1 classroom where the professional learning focused on multimodal literacy pedagogies that combined digital and print-based resources to expand children’s meaning-making. Linking children’s opportunities for expansive literacy options and civic engagement, we focus on a lesson cycle in one teacher’s engagement in the learning. We …
Learning at the Ends of Life: Children, Elders, and Literacies in Intergenerational Curricula
Intergenerational learning programs bring together skipped generations (for instance, elders and young children) to promote expansive communication and identity options for participants, as well as the forging of relationships between generations. More specifically, these programs help foster multimodal literacy for both generations, encouraging new ways of seeing oneself and the world. Learning at the Ends of Life illustrates the unique benefits…
Straining to Hear the Singing: Toward an Understanding of Successful Intergenerational Singing Curriculum
Assuming that intergenerational singing curricula can facilitate well-being through the production of expansive learning opportunities and relationship-building between skipped generations, this study aimed to discover the prevalence, form, and characteristics of intergenerational singing programs in a 50 kilometer radius of one urban center in Ontario, Canada. Of the 170 organizations serving children and older adults with the potential to offer…
Learning opportunities: The production and practice of kindergarten literacy curricula in an era of change
This case study using ethnographic tools was designed to identify and gain analytic insight into the dimensions and dynamics of kindergarten literacy curricula during an era of early childhood education and care reform. Focal questions concerned how literacy curricula were produced and the ways in which children and their linguistic and multi-modal funds of knowledge may have been implicated in curricular production and practice. Focusing on one …
Multimodal communication and identities options in an intergenerational art class
This case study of multimodal pedagogies within an intergenerational (IG) art class addresses questions about the learning opportunities that were created therein and what the fixing of participants’ ideas within a semiotic chain said about their facility with communicative modes and media, interests, and identity options. Key findings include: when compared to the adults’ work, the children’s use of media was more elaborate, experimental, and le…
Border work: Teachers’ expressions of their literacy-related professional development needs in a First Nations school
Knitting Teacher: A Narrative Inquiry of a Researcher Who Has Been Researched
From the vantages of a teacher who has been researched and an educational researcher who has researched teachers, this inquiry constructs a knitted narrative from journals, letters, and stories written about my time teaching English studies in a remote First Nations' community and articles written about me when I was a research participant in a study concerning White women teaching in the Canadian north. The goal of this narrative inquiry is to e…
Relocating the Personal” to engender critically reflective practice in pre-service literacy teachers
Early Childhood Curricula and the De-pathologizing of Childhood
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Rachel M. Heydon and Luigi Iannacci shed light on the ways in which joint notions of normality and abnormality are used to pathologize childhood
Making meaning together: Multi‐modal literacy learning opportunities in an inter‐generational art programme
This naturalistic study reports the language and literacy‐learning opportunities, and the conditions necessary to bring them about, in the art component of an innovative intergenerational programme. The focus is on the children in the programme (median age 4), their interaction with adult participants (median age 85) and facilitators, and the ways in which they used various sign systems to communicate meaning. There were many semiotic opportuniti…
Beacons of light, rays, or sun catchers? A case study of the positioning of literacy teachers and their knowledge in neoliberal times
The de-pathologization of childhood, disability and aging in an intergenerational art class: Implications for educators
Based on a naturalistic study of an intergenerational art program at a colocated child and long-term care facility, the purpose of this article is to discuss the implications of the program’s learning opportunities, primarily for young children, in light of current conceptualizations of childhood, aging and disability. Through a critical, postmodern framework which sees childhood, aging and disability as situated phenomena which are produced as o…
Strategies to Support Balanced Literacy Approaches in Pre‐ and Inservice Teacher Education
The authors describe the ways in which, as preservice and inservice teacher educators, they conceptualize balanced literacy within an educational climate that values quick fixes, standardized curricula, and high‐stakes testing. They proffer a professionalized version of the work of teachers in the classroom that values, fosters, and supports teacher knowledge, discernment, and reflection throughout all stages of teachers' careers. They also prese…
Beacons of light, rays, or sun catchers? A case study of the positioning of literacy teachers and their knowledge in neoliberal times
Learning opportunities: The production and practice of kindergarten literacy curricula in an era of change
This case study using ethnographic tools was designed to identify and gain analytic insight into the dimensions and dynamics of kindergarten literacy curricula during an era of early childhood education and care reform. Focal questions concerned how literacy curricula were produced and the ways in which children and their linguistic and multi-modal funds of knowledge may have been implicated in curricular production and practice. Focusing on one …
The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing: Wellbeing
Several studies have shown that speech production can deteriorate significantly with age.Results demonstrate strong sex-specific changes in speaking fundamental frequency (F0)1, whereby the pitch of a woman's voice becomes lower with age and the pitch of a man's voice becomes higher (e.g
Straining to Hear the Singing: Toward an Understanding of Successful Intergenerational Singing Curriculum
Assuming that intergenerational singing curricula can facilitate well-being through the production of expansive learning opportunities and relationship-building between skipped generations, this study aimed to discover the prevalence, form, and characteristics of intergenerational singing programs in a 50 kilometer radius of one urban center in Ontario, Canada. Of the 170 organizations serving children and older adults with the potential to offer…
Border work: Teachers’ expressions of their literacy-related professional development needs in a First Nations school
Relocating the Personal” to engender critically reflective practice in pre-service literacy teachers
Knitting Teacher: A Narrative Inquiry of a Researcher Who Has Been Researched
From the vantages of a teacher who has been researched and an educational researcher who has researched teachers, this inquiry constructs a knitted narrative from journals, letters, and stories written about my time teaching English studies in a remote First Nations' community and articles written about me when I was a research participant in a study concerning White women teaching in the Canadian north. The goal of this narrative inquiry is to e…
The de-pathologization of childhood, disability and aging in an intergenerational art class: Implications for educators
Based on a naturalistic study of an intergenerational art program at a colocated child and long-term care facility, the purpose of this article is to discuss the implications of the program’s learning opportunities, primarily for young children, in light of current conceptualizations of childhood, aging and disability. Through a critical, postmodern framework which sees childhood, aging and disability as situated phenomena which are produced as o…
Strategies to Support Balanced Literacy Approaches in Pre‐ and Inservice Teacher Education
The authors describe the ways in which, as preservice and inservice teacher educators, they conceptualize balanced literacy within an educational climate that values quick fixes, standardized curricula, and high‐stakes testing. They proffer a professionalized version of the work of teachers in the classroom that values, fosters, and supports teacher knowledge, discernment, and reflection throughout all stages of teachers' careers. They also prese…
The de-pathologization of childhood, disability and aging in an intergenerational art class: Implications for educators
Based on a naturalistic study of an intergenerational art program at a colocated child and long-term care facility, the purpose of this article is to discuss the implications of the program’s learning opportunities, primarily for young children, in light of current conceptualizations of childhood, aging and disability. Through a critical, postmodern framework which sees childhood, aging and disability as situated phenomena which are produced as o…
Making meaning together: Multi‐modal literacy learning opportunities in an inter‐generational art programme
This naturalistic study reports the language and literacy‐learning opportunities, and the conditions necessary to bring them about, in the art component of an innovative intergenerational programme. The focus is on the children in the programme (median age 4), their interaction with adult participants (median age 85) and facilitators, and the ways in which they used various sign systems to communicate meaning. There were many semiotic opportuniti…
Beacons of light, rays, or sun catchers? A case study of the positioning of literacy teachers and their knowledge in neoliberal times
Early Childhood Curricula and the De-pathologizing of Childhood
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Rachel M. Heydon and Luigi Iannacci shed light on the ways in which joint notions of normality and abnormality are used to pathologize childhood
Relocating the Personal” to engender critically reflective practice in pre-service literacy teachers
Knitting Teacher: A Narrative Inquiry of a Researcher Who Has Been Researched
From the vantages of a teacher who has been researched and an educational researcher who has researched teachers, this inquiry constructs a knitted narrative from journals, letters, and stories written about my time teaching English studies in a remote First Nations' community and articles written about me when I was a research participant in a study concerning White women teaching in the Canadian north. The goal of this narrative inquiry is to e…
Multimodal communication and identities options in an intergenerational art class
This case study of multimodal pedagogies within an intergenerational (IG) art class addresses questions about the learning opportunities that were created therein and what the fixing of participants’ ideas within a semiotic chain said about their facility with communicative modes and media, interests, and identity options. Key findings include: when compared to the adults’ work, the children’s use of media was more elaborate, experimental, and le…
Border work: Teachers’ expressions of their literacy-related professional development needs in a First Nations school
Learning opportunities: The production and practice of kindergarten literacy curricula in an era of change
This case study using ethnographic tools was designed to identify and gain analytic insight into the dimensions and dynamics of kindergarten literacy curricula during an era of early childhood education and care reform. Focal questions concerned how literacy curricula were produced and the ways in which children and their linguistic and multi-modal funds of knowledge may have been implicated in curricular production and practice. Focusing on one …
Learning at the Ends of Life: Children, Elders, and Literacies in Intergenerational Curricula
Intergenerational learning programs bring together skipped generations (for instance, elders and young children) to promote expansive communication and identity options for participants, as well as the forging of relationships between generations. More specifically, these programs help foster multimodal literacy for both generations, encouraging new ways of seeing oneself and the world. Learning at the Ends of Life illustrates the unique benefits…
Straining to Hear the Singing: Toward an Understanding of Successful Intergenerational Singing Curriculum
Assuming that intergenerational singing curricula can facilitate well-being through the production of expansive learning opportunities and relationship-building between skipped generations, this study aimed to discover the prevalence, form, and characteristics of intergenerational singing programs in a 50 kilometer radius of one urban center in Ontario, Canada. Of the 170 organizations serving children and older adults with the potential to offer…
The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing: Wellbeing
Several studies have shown that speech production can deteriorate significantly with age.Results demonstrate strong sex-specific changes in speaking fundamental frequency (F0)1, whereby the pitch of a woman's voice becomes lower with age and the pitch of a man's voice becomes higher (e.g
Enabled to play, enabled to explore: Children's Civic Engagement, Literacies, and Teacher Professional Learning
Drawing from a multiple-case study of professional learning in literacy, this article presents vignettes from a Grade 1 classroom where the professional learning focused on multimodal literacy pedagogies that combined digital and print-based resources to expand children’s meaning-making. Linking children’s opportunities for expansive literacy options and civic engagement, we focus on a lesson cycle in one teacher’s engagement in the learning. We …
Training Pre-Service Early Childhood Educators in Physical Activity (Teach): Protocol for a Quasi-Experimental Study
The TEACH study represents a novel, evidence-informed approach to address the existing gap in physical activity and sedentary behaviour-related education in Canadian post-secondary early childhood education programs. Moreover, e-Learning platforms, can be employed as an innovative, standardized, and scalable way to provide ECEs with consistent training across jurisdictions
Change in pre- and in-service early childhood educators’ knowledge, self-efficacy, and intentions following an e-learning course in physical activity and sedentary behaviour: A pilot study
These findings provide preliminary evidence of the potential efficacy of the e-Learning course at improving ECEs' knowledge, self-efficacy, behavioural intention, and perceived behavioural control to support PA and minimize SB in childcare. Following the success of the pilot study, testing the effectiveness of the TEACH e-Learning course on a larger scale, with a comparison group, is warranted prior to recommending broader dissemination of the tr…
Family literacies during the Covid-19 lockdown: Semiotic assemblages and meaning making at home
Guidelines for virtual early childhood and family learning: An equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization-informed systematic review of the literature
This article presents an equity-informed systematic review of research pertinent to the offering of virtual early childhood education programming to young children and their families. Findings are presented as guidelines which may shape the delivery of future programming within virtual contexts. These findings are organized within three major areas that were identified through the methodology: Building Connections and Fostering Online Relationshi…
Psychology (16 works) · Pedagogy (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Literacy (7 works) · Curriculum (6 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (6 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Political science (5 works)