Sheri Leafgren is Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at Miami University of Ohio. She has a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Kent State University. Leafgren is Assistant Editor of the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy and has been awarded several outstanding teaching awards and an Excellence in Education Award from Ohio Magazine. Her dissertation, upon which this book is based, won awards from the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, the National Association Early Childhood Teacher Education, and the Curriculum Group of the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.