Amanda Fellner

Amanda R. Fellner, Ed.D. is a Curriculum and Teaching Department Lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the Co-Faculty Director at the Rita Gold Early Childhood Center, also located at Teachers College, Columbia University. She holds a BA in Early Childhood Education from the University of South Carolina, an Ed.M. in Cognitive Psychology, and an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University.  Amanda has been in early care and education for over a decade, working as a teacher, administrator, educator, and consultant.  Using ethnographic and multimodal methods, her current work examines young children’s spatial practices, re-examining common understandings of what children can/should be allowed to do, as well as investigating teachers’ practices related to children’s risk-taking.  Amanda is also engaged in research that looks more broadly at classroom practices in early care and education settings while focused on bringing the lived experiences of both children and teachers into view.