Blogs
Blogs are brief critically reflective posts that focus on topics or ideas that relate to, and inspire, transformative early childhood education for 21st-century childhoods. They are written and created by pedagogists, educators, researchers and the ECPN team.
22 Mar 2024
Anti-extraction and Intimacy: Storytelling Pedagogies of Place in the North, Part Two
In this two-part blog post, I share the pedagogies I am crafting in northern British Columbia and how my pedagogical…
15 Feb 2024
Materials in Early Childhood Education
The term materials in early childhood education has several meanings. We might think of materials as documents and articles, as…
19 Jan 2024
Anti-extraction and Intimacy: Storytelling Pedagogies of Place in the North, Part One
On the margins of the inland rainforest, near Bowron FSR, BC Tied to the Land: An…
26 Feb 2022
Drawing as a Passageway for Movement
Each month ECPN Community Stream pedagogists gather to discuss various conceptual and experiential happenings of their work as becoming pedagogists.…
8 Feb 2022
Drawing in Pedagogical Practice
Each year ECPN pedagogists think and experiment with a collective idea that they weave into the pedagogical and curricular processes…
15 Dec 2021
Curriculum Creation: Responding to Conditions Through Collective Map-Making
*Note: Throughout, wording in shaded boxes is drawn from Conversations V Pt. 1 presentation which took place October 28, 2021.…
4 Oct 2021
Dancing with Rhizomes: Enlivening a Pedagogy of Listening
Within a pedagogy of listening (Rinaldi, 2006) lives a tension between pulling closer and stepping back from what we are encountering. Pulling…
4 Jun 2021
Pedagogists Experiment with Inaugural Exposure Series: Listening with Indigenous Artists and the Early Learning Framework
ECPN community pedagogists in Kamloops are offering their inaugural Exposure series alongside the Kamloops Art Gallery’s current exhibition, Soundings: An Exhibition in…
19 Apr 2021
Living with a Pedagogista: Thinking Otherwise as an Early Childhood Educator
Two children fight over a toy. “I had it first!” “No, I had it first!” Before the argument can escalate…