Gaile S. Cannella

Gaile S. Cannella is an independent scholarwho has served as a tenured Full Professor at Texas A&M University, CollegeStation, and at Arizona State University, Tempe, as well as the Velma SchmidtEndowed Chair of Education at the University of North Texas. Her work hasappeared in a range of journals and volumes, including Qualitative Inquiry, Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, and International Review ofQualitative Research. Her most recent books are: Critical QualitativeResearch Reader (2012) with Shirley Steinberg; Reconceptualizing EarlyChildhood Care and Education (second edition 2018) with Marianne Bloch andBeth Swadener; Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Foundations and Futures(2015) with Michelle Perez and Penny Pasque; and Critical Examinations ofQuality in Childhood Education and Care (2016) with Michelle Perez andI-Fang Lee. She is currently working on research projects that include: earlyyears critical perspectives in education, and critical qualitative inquiry aspublic activisms and unthought imaginary. Dr. Cannella received the 2017Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education and Care Bloch Career Award.