Robert Lecusay
Robert is an Associate Professor of Education at Södertörn
University, Project Researcher at Malmö University, and Affiliate
Researcher Jönköpi Ungniversity's Preschool Education Research
Group. His teaching and research centers on the study of play,
teaching, and education for sustainability in Swedish preschool
provision, with particular focus on how early childhood pedagogues
understand and negotiate tensions stemming from the combination of
these activities in preschool. These interests are rooted in a more
general concern with understanding the relationship between formal
and informal learning.Robert completed his doctoral training at LCHC
(
Interdisciplinary PhD Program in
Communication &
Cognitive Science)
where he collaborated with colleagues on a variety of
participatory design research projects based in university-community
educational research partnerships. Among these were playworlds which
he continues to study and participate in today with his wonderful
colleagues and LCHC affiliates Beth Ferholt, Anna Rainio, Monica
Nilsson, and Kiyo Miyazaki. As a "gen x" CHAT scholar, he
does his level best to keep up with the continuously transforming
community of CHAT practice (mainly through participating in the
Regenerating CHAT project and its utopian offshoots).