Linda Mitchell

Linda Mitchell is Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Division of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Her current research is in early childhood education policy; teachers' work; refugee and immigrant families in early childhood education; and democracy in education. She is working with Timorese collaborators to support play-based pedagogy in preschools in Timor Leste. She has a Leverhulme grant for a visiting professorship to Manchester Metropolitan University in...See more

Linda Mitchell is Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Division of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Her current research is in early childhood education policy; teachers' work; refugee and immigrant families in early childhood education; and democracy in education. She is working with Timorese collaborators to support play-based pedagogy in preschools in Timor Leste. She has a Leverhulme grant for a visiting professorship to Manchester Metropolitan University in 2021 and 2022 where she will facilitate a robust theorisation of democratic education and its practices that will be applicable to all education settings from birth through lifelong learning. See less