Educational Research in the Arts: Naomi McLeod (Episode 4)

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In this episode we meet Senior Lecturer Dr Naomi McLeod from Liverpool John Moores University, England. Naomi McLeod is deputy lead for the series Research Inform Pedagogies group. Her research focuses on children's participation and agency, and the empowerment of professionals in the research field Early Childhood Education. Her research also focuses on issues of democracy and aesthetics, participation and sustainability, and she is particularly interested in critical perspectives. She wants us, as early educators, 'to deconstruct our personal views and assumptions, and embrace openness and respect for new understandings'. Professor Tarja Karlsson Häikiö, co-leader of the research platform Educational Research in the Arts, interviews Naomi McLeod. Naomi and Tarja have collaborated over the years on teacher training for students in early years education and on several research publications. In this podcast series we will meet researchers and practioners in the vast field of Arts Education, and disseminate, distribute and discuss research within this field of research. If you want to learn more about the research platform labelled with the same name and functioning as a basis for the podcast series, please take a look under Ou research on the Artistic Faculty at the University of Gothenburg: www.gu.se/en/artistic-faculty/our-research Carina Borgström Källén and Tarja Karlsson Häikiö are the research leaders of the platform and host this podcast series.