Faculty Profiles

Illescas Glascock, M. L., Martinez, E. V., Kinard, T. A., & Hemenway, R. L. (2023). Constructing Bridges: Play and Choice Based Inquiry in a Public School. Early Years: Official Journal of TXAEYC, 44(2), 6-10.

Illescas Glascock, M. L., Martinez, E. V., Hemenway, R. L., & Kinard, T. A. (2023). Constructing Bridges: Constructive Play and Choice-Based Inquiry /Construyendo Puentes: Juego constructivo e investigación basada en la elección. Early Years, 44(2), 11–15.

Kinard, T. A., & Cannella, G. S. (Eds.). (2021). Childhoods in More Just Worlds: An International Handbook. Gorham, ME, US: Myers Education Press. Retrieved from https://myersedpress.presswarehouse.com/browse/book/9781975504113/Childhoods-in-More-Just-Worlds

Kinard, T. A., Gainer, J. S., Valdez-Gainer, N., Long, S., & Volk, D. (2021). Interrogating the “Gold Standard”: Play-Based Early Childhood Education and Perpetuating White Supremacy. Theory into Practice. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/00405841.2021.1911587

Kinard, T. A., Gainer, J. S., & Valdez-Gainer, N. (2021). Play-based early childhood education and perpetuating white supremacy.

Kinard, T. A., & Cannella, G. S. (2021). Justice Mapping: Making Theoretical Kin With/in Childhood Studies. In Childhoods in More Just Worlds: An International Handbook (pp. 175–190). Gorham, ME: Myers Education Press.

Cannella, G. S., & Kinard, T. A. (2021). Preface: Childhoods in More Just Worlds -- An International Handbook. In Childhoods in More Just Worlds: An International Handbook. Gorham, ME, US: Myers Education Press.

Kinard, T. A., & Gainer, J. S. (2020). Exploring borders in a Texas prekindergaraten: Storytelling from the in-between. The New Educator, 16(2), 149–170.

Kinard, T. A., Gainer, J. S., & Huerta, M. E. (2018). Power play : Explorando y empujando fronteras en una escuela en Tejas through a multilingual play-based early learning curriculum (Vol. 4). New York, New York, United States: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. https://doi.org/10.3726/b11316

Kinard, T. A. (2016). Anonymous green painting: An artifact of resistance as danger and hope in an early childhood educational setting. QSE: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 28(2), 195–2015. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2013.859325

Kinard, T. A. (2016). Playgrounds: A Historical Contextualization. Young Children, 70(4), 92–95.

Kinard, T. A., & Gainer, J. S. (2016). Leading by following: An introduction to Verbal Mapping as naming abstract, affective realia and promoting social-emotional meaning-making in a language-rich curriculum. English in Texas, 44(1), 30–35.

Kinard, T. (2016). Talking science in an ESL pre-K: Theory-building with Realia. Dimensions of Early Childhood, 43(1), 16–24.

Kinard, T. A. (2015). Flying over the school: Superhero play, friend or foe? In K. Koralek & K. Charner (Eds.), Spotlight on Young Children: Exploring Play. Washington DC: NAEYC.

Kinard, T. A. (2014). Emotional Learning and Violent Play: Sword Fighting in Summer School. Early Years, 35(2), 20–23.

Kinard, T. a. (2014). Flying over the school: Superhero play, friend or foe? Young Children, 69(2), 16–23.

Gainer, J., Valdez-Gainer, N., & Kinard, T. A. (2013). The elementary bubble project: Exploring critical media literacy in a fourth-grade classroom. In Transforming practice: Critical issues in equity, diversity and education.

Kinard, T. A. (2012). Deconstructing Delphinium: Violence and flowers in Rousseau’s Emile and Henke’s Chrysanthemum. Children’s Literature in Education, 43(4), 292–312. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-012-9171-6

Kinard, T. A., & Gainer, J. S. (2012). Kissing G.I. Joes: Wide-awake, critical connoisseurship in critical media literacy pedagogy. JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 28(1), 108–125.

Gainer, J. S., Valdez-Gainer, N., & Kinard, T. A. (2012). The elementary bubble project: Exploring critical media literacy in a fourth-grade classroom. In J. Soler (Ed.), Transforming practice: Critical issues in equity, diversity and education. London: Open University Press & Trentham Books.

Kinard, T. A., & Hamilton, D. (2010). What’s at play in the work of ECE?: The storytelling curriculum, artful stories, and postmodern picturebooks. Language Arts. Language Arts.

Gainer, J. S., Valdez-Gainer, N., & Kinard, T. (2009). The Elementary bubble project: Exploring critical media literacy in a fourth-grade classroom. The Reading Teacher, 62(8), 674–683. https://doi.org/10.1598/RT.62.8.5

Kinard, T. (2007). Kimiko quest. New York: Harcourt Publishing Group.

Kinard, T. (2007). The amazing adventures of ordinary girl. New York: Harcourt Publishing Group.

Kinard, T. (2007). People and water. New York: Harcourt Publishing Group.

Kinard, T. (2006). Piano man. New York: Harcourt Publishing Group.

Kinard, T. (2006). Sky skating. New York: Harcourt Publishing Group.

Kinard, T. (2003). Fruit flies like a banana: Historicity and the rhizome. International Journal of Qualitative Research in Education, 16(5), 711–712. https://doi.org/10.1080/0951839032000142977