Dr. Lindsay Schofield is Director of the Early Childhood Centers, Assistant Professor, and Program Coordinator of Early Childhood Education in the College of Education at Florida Gulf Coast University, United States of America. She brings extensive professional experience spanning early childhood care and education as well as midwifery across the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America.
Her research and pedagogy are informed by feminist new materialisms, through which she collaborates with communities and engages in speculative, performative inquiry. These approaches critically orient her work around matters of motherhood, babyhood, and childhood, while foregrounding the urgency to rethink and reconceptualize early childhood education in ways that sustain culturally responsive programs for marginalized families and young children.
Dr. Schofield’s research and scholarship address historical and contemporary constructions of motherhood, babyhood, and early childhood, as well as early childhood policy reform, teacher education, and post-qualitative methodologies.