Dr. Jaye Johnson Thiel
Research
- Play & Arts-based Research & Practice
- Social, Cultural, Political, and Economic Constructions of Childhood
- Affect & Embodiment
- Critical Posthuman/New Materialist Theories/Post-developmentalism
- Postqualitative Research
- CARI Faculty Fellow
Teaching
Undergraduate
- HD 321 Curriculum Planning in Early Childhood Education I
- HD 322 Curriculum Planning in Early Childhood Education II
Graduate
- HD 633 Childhood & Play: Theory & Practice
- CIE 499/599/693 UA Writing Project
- Affiliate Faculty Department of Qualitative Research Studies
Course Syllabi
Service
- Co-director of the University Alabama Writing Project, A Division of the NWP
- Legacy Scholars Mentor
- Tide Together Mentor
- Editorial Review Board for Childhood Art: An International Journal of Research
- Professional Organizations: Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education; Literacy Research Association; Early Childhood Education Association; National Arts in Education Association; United Kingdom Literacy Association