Joseph Tobin (born 1950) is the Elizabeth Garrard Hall Professor of Education in the College of Education at the

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Biography

Tobin received his B.A. Degree from

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and his PhD in

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at the

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. As a Japan Foundation Fellow, he studied in Tokyo with the Japanese psychoanalyst

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who had great influence on his work. Tobin is married and has two sons.

Work

Tobin is an educational

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and an

early childhood education Early childhood education (ECE), also known as nursery education, is a branch of education theory that relates to the teaching of children (formally and informally) from birth up to the age of eight. Traditionally, this is up to the equivale ...

specialist. His research interests include cross-cultural studies of

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, children and the media, and qualitative research methods. He is known for his books and video documentaries ''Preschool in Three Cultures: Japan, China, and the United States'' (1989) and Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited (2009). His other books include ''Good Guys Don't Wear Hats: Children's Talk about the Media''; ''Remade in Japan''; ''Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education''; and ''Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of

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.'' Tobin also led a major international project: Children Crossing Borders: Immigrant Parent and Staff Perspectives on Preschool and is currently leading the project: Deaf Kindergartens in Three Countries: Japan, France, and the United States.

Publications

*"Preschool in Three Cultures: China, Japan, and the United States," Joseph J. Tobin, David Y.H. Wu, Dana H. Davidson, 1991, *"Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited: China, Japan, and the United States," Joseph Tobin, Yeh Hsueh, and Mayumi Karasawa, 2011, *"Teaching Embodied: Cultural Practice in Japanese Preschools," Akiko Hayashi and Joseph Tobin, 2015,

References

External links

personal website
** office webpage at University of Georgia American anthropologists 1950 births Living people Earlham College alumni {{US-anthropologist-stub