NATALIE JOY DAVEY, PhD
 

Twenty years ago I began my career as a secondary school educator. I went on to pursue graduate degrees and after a decade moved into the realm of higher education. For the next ten years I bridged those two worlds, teaching Faculty of Education pre-service teachers, followed by years spent supporting student success and “Learning to 18” initiatives on college campuses. My doctoral work focused on educational place-making that was lived out by detained youth, their detention center staff and teachers. Since that time my writing and research interests have expanded to include critical pedagogies of care and narrative inquiry, with a focus on both learner and educator engagement. That research focus has extended into collegial connections made in arts-based learning environments. You can read my work in a variety of places including my book Finding Joy (Brill, 2023) , my newsletter, and the Reframeables podcast.