Publications
BOOKS
Fyfe, B., Lee-Johnson, Y.L, Reyes, J., & Yu, G.S. (2023). Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Affirming-the-Rights-of-Emergent-Bilingual-and-Multilingual-Children-and/Fyfe-Lee-Johnson-Reyes-Schroeder-Yu/p/book/9781032267340
Chung, M., Yu, G.S., Pollitt, J. (projected 2026). The Right to Be Heard: Listening as a Transdisciplinary Practice. Submitted February 2024 Routledge Studies in Curriculum Theory, series editor William F. Pinar.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Yu, G.S. (abstract submitted 2023). We Are Aware: Creating Space for Young Children’s Aesthetic Points of View as Socially Engaged Art Practice. In Heather Kaplan & Christine Thompson (Eds.) All Children are Foreigners: Challenging Myths and Misconceptions in Early Art Education. (Projected 2025). Bloomsbury Publishing.
Fyfe, B., Lee-Johnson, Y.L, Reyes, J., & Yu, Schroeder G. (July, 2023). Introduction to our research, framing constructs, and purposes. In B. Fyfe, Y. Lee-Johnson, J. Reyes, & G. Schroeder Yu (Eds). Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach. Routledge.
Fyfe, B., Yu, GS, Reyes, J., & Lee-Johnson, YL (July, 2023). Moving the conversation forward. In B. Fyfe, Y. Lee-Johnson, J. Reyes, & G. Schroeder Yu (Eds). Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach. Routledge.
Oviedo, J. & Yu, G. (July 2023). Studio art teachers’ perspectives on multimodality and the hundred languages in early childhood multilingual contexts. In B. Fyfe, Y. Lee-Johnson, J. Reyes, & G. Schroeder Yu (Eds). Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach. Routledge.
Reyes, J. & Yu, GS (July 2023). Words Unspoken: The radical pursuit of culturally relevant and culturally sustaining pedagogical documentation. In B. Fyfe, Y. Lee-Johnson, J. Reyes, & G. Schroeder Yu (Eds). Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach. Routledge.
Yu, G., Reyes, J., Lee-Johnson, Y.L., & Fyfe, B. (forthcoming, July 2023). What we learned from our conversation with Reggio Emilia Educators. In B. Fyfe, Y. Lee-Johnson, J. Reyes, & G. Schroeder Yu (Eds). Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach. Routledge.
Yu, G. & Reyes, J. (forthcoming, July 2023). Breathing new life: The graphic languages, translanguaging, and metaphoric language with young children in multilingual contexts. In B. Fyfe, Y. Lee- Johnson, J. Reyes, & G. Schroeder Yu (Eds). Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach. Routledge.
Yu, G., Lee-Johnson, Y.L., & Reyes, J. (forthcoming, July 2023). The Metaphorical Context of the Atelier as a Border Crossing Space: Exploring Relationships in Young Children’s Languaging and Translanguaging Processes. In B. Fyfe, Y. Lee-Johnson, J. Reyes, & G. Schroeder Yu (Eds).
Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach. Routledge.
Yu, G., Browne, J., & Halligey, A. (forthcoming, June 2023, double blind peer reviewed). Making meaning, creating (in) community: An international dialogue on community art education within early childhood contexts. In C. Lin, A. Sinner, & R. Irwin (Eds.), Transversalities: International Perspectives on Community Art Education. Intellect Publishers. https://www.intellectbooks.com/community-arts-education
Yu, G. & Bliss, M. (2022). Where did all the yellow go: Empathy for yellow (Visual Essay). In G. Coutts & T.Eca (Eds). Learning Through Art: International Pictures of Practice, InSEA Publications.
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Yu, GS (2023). --- InSEA paper
Horwat, J., Yu, G., & Grube, V. (2024). Good Mourning: Existing with Loss while Living in the Anxious Now. Social Theory in Art Education. v.43
Palmer, K., Yu, G., Aprill A. Palmer, K., Yu, G. S., & Aprill, A. (2023). Co-constructing sustainable collaborations in early childhood settings through the arts. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 24(6). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370063301
Yu, G. (2021). Re (Searching) Meaning: Aesthetic teaching and learning outside the box. Visual Art Research Journal, 47(2).
Yu, G. (2021). Transformations: In Progress (Visual Essay). IMAG, 12.
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
Yu, GS (abstract accepted 2025). A Collection of Children’s Artworks as Imaginative Openings. In C. Penketh & P. Hay. (Special Issue Editors). International Journal of Art & Design Education.
Yu, G., Broderick, J. Hong, S. (2024). The Language of Collaboration: Art Inquiry Among Art and Early Childhood Educators
The Art Education Policy Review.
Yu, G., Reyes, J. & Goubeaux, P. (2024). Uncertainty and Reciprocal Relationships: Collaboration Laboratory as an Ecology of Practices.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Yu, G. & Kaminsky, J. (2022). Reflections on Co-Researching and the Reggio Emilia Approach. The International Reggio Emilia Exchange.29(1).
Yu, G. & Roanhorse, V. (2021). Connection to the land: An interview with Victoria Roanhorse (Navajo educator). Innovations in Early Education: The International Reggio Emilia Exchange. 28(1).
Rankin, B. & Yu, G. (2020). Learning from my encounters with Loris Malaguzzi, 1981-1989 (2 Part Interview). Innovations in Early Education: The International Reggio Emilia Exchange. 27(2) and 27(3).
Yu, G. & Thompson, N. (2022). Embracing differences through an ecology of relationships. In R. Wilson, Nature for Every Child. Gryphon House.
Yu, G. (2019). Reflections on school wide research as professional development. Innovations in Early Education: The International Reggio Emilia Exchange. 26(3).
Bliss, M., Sosa, D., & Yu, G (2019). Bringing the outside inside. In L. Gandini & C. Topal (Eds.), Beautiful Stuff in Nature (2nd ed., pp. 116-121). Davis Publications.
Bliss, M., Sosa, D. & Yu, G. (2019). Big skies. School Arts Magazine. (March 2019).
Allred, C. & Yu, GS (2018). The Power of Networks in One-on-One Mentoring and Workforce Development in Early Childhood. Conference Paper, UNM Mentor Institute. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343017793_The_Power_of_Networks_in_One-on-One_Mentoring_and_Workforce_Development_in_Early_Childhood
PROGRAM EVALUATION REPORTS
Yu, GS, Reyes, J., Goubeaux, P. (2023). Documentation as Medium within an Ecology of Practices. Chicago Artist Partnerships in Education Program Evaluation Report, Fall 2023. CAPE
Goubeaux, P. & Yu, GS (2023). SciArt Santa Fe. New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities.
Yu, G., Reyes, J. & Goubeaux, P. (October, 2022). Reciprocal Relationships: Chicago Artist Partnerships in Education Collaboration Laboratory (CoLab) as an Ecology of Practices. Program Evaluation Report, Spring 2022.https://capechicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/cape_colab_research_2022_exsummary.pdf
Yu, G. & Aprill, A. (June, 2020). Intersection of early childhood education and the fine and performing arts. Final Report Submitted: First Things First, Paradise Valley Community College.
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Yu, G & Putnam, H. (2020-2024). PreSchool Adventures in Art. Young Children. And Caregiver Program. Albuquerque Art Museum.