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Tran N. Templeton is an Assistant Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Co-Director of the Rita Gold Center. Her research spans critical childhood studies, visual sociology, and early childhood curriculum, focusing on the politics of childhood agency and representation.
- Ed.D., Curriculum & Teaching (Early Childhood Education), Teachers College, Columbia University (2018)
- Coursework, Ph.D., Special Education, University of Washington (2005-2007)
- Ed.M., Learning & Teaching, Harvard Graduate School of Education (2004)
- B.S., Human Development & Family Sciences (Child Development), University of Texas at Austin (2000)
Templeton’s research interrogates adult-child power dynamics through visual, qualitative, and ethnographic methods. She examines childhood literacies, play, and environments via critical disability studies, critical race theory, and postcolonial frameworks, advocating for curricula that center children’s socio-material realities.
Recent publications explore play as liberation, scatological care politics, and children’s spatial agency. Her work challenges dominant narratives about disabled and racialized childhoods, reconceptualizing curriculum as fluid, child-driven assemblages.
- 2017-2018 AERA Minority Dissertation Fellow
- 2019-2021 STAR Cohort, Literacy Research Association
- 2023 AERA CPECE SIG Emerging Scholar
- Geneva Smitherman Cultural Diversity Grant Recipient
- Rita Gold Fellow
Templeton co-leads a Spencer Vision Grant (2023-2025) investigating child-centered pedagogy and collaborates with scholars like Vivek Vellanki on place-making. She serves as Associate Editor for Exceptional Children and on boards of CPECE SIG and National Council of Research on Language and Literacy.
