Faculty profile
Cassie Brownell
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Read how they describe their research on their University of Toronto profile.
Latest funding
- $434,270
Literacy's Landscapes: Examining Story, Land, and Children's Literacies
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $237,970
Sensory Stories of Environmental Stewardship: A Cross-Coastal Constellation of Children Cultivating, Crafting, and Communicating Nature Narratives
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $24,960
COVID-19: Examining How Children Broadcast Personal and Community Stories in the Shadow of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Demonstrations for Racial Justice
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
No publications available.
Literacy's Landscapes: Examining Story, Land, and Children's Literacies
Principal investigators: Lenters, Kimberly
Sensory Stories of Environmental Stewardship: A Cross-Coastal Constellation of Children Cultivating, Crafting, and Communicating Nature Narratives
Principal investigators: Brownell, Cassie
Keywords: education primary education qualitative research ethnographic methods children science education climate crisis research methods early childhood education
COVID-19: Examining How Children Broadcast Personal and Community Stories in the Shadow of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Demonstrations for Racial Justice
Principal investigators: Brownell, Cassie J.
Keywords: COVID-19; qualitative; case study; ethnographic; education; children; radio; digital literacy; urban; out-of-school learning
Northern Oral Language and Writing through Play: A Partnership Supporting Indigenous Children's Language, Cultural Knowledge and Writing
Keywords: early childhood; Indigenous education; Indigenous language and culture; northern, rural and remote communities; language and literacy learning; collaborative action research
Making Citizens in an Urban Primary Classroom: Exploring Young Children's Critical Maker Literacies
Principal investigators: Brownell, Cassie
Keywords: (1) Early Childhood Education; (2) Elementary Education; (3) Urban Education; (4) Literacy; (5) Social Studies; (6) Critical literacies; (7) Civics; (8) Making; (9) Makerspace; (10) Digital Literacies
Northern Oral Language and Writing through Play: A Partnership Supporting Indigenous Children's Language, Cultural Knowledge and Writing
Keywords: early childhood; Indigenous education; Indigenous language and culture; northern, rural and remote communities; language and literacy learning; collaborative action research
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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