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Rachel Langford is Professor Emerita at Toronto Metropolitan University and has extensive experience in the early childhood education field. She has dedicated over 17 years to various educational settings and has taught post-secondary students, focusing on early childhood education. A former president of the Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario, she is committed to enhancing the professional recognition of early childhood educators in Ontario. Rachel regularly speaks at provincial and national levels, addressing professional audiences on early childhood issues. Her research interests include the Canadian child care movement, early childhood policy, the ethics of care, and early childhood pedagogy. She has participated in significant research projects, including 'Caring for Care: An Examination of Care in Canadian Childcare' and a SSHRC-funded project on professionalism in the ECEC sector during a time of neoliberalism. Throughout her career, she has received accolades such as the George L. Geis Dissertation Award for outstanding Canadian doctoral dissertation focused on higher education in 2005 and the Crystal Apple Award for teaching excellence at George Brown College in the same year.
Department of Chemical Engineering