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.
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…
14 Jan 2021
A Postsecondary Institution Pedagogist’s Reflection on Common Worlds Pedagogies: The space between
On September 25th 2020 at 7pm I eagerly logged on to the North Shore Conference: Keynote presentation Common Worlds Research…
21 Dec 2020
A pedagogical edge to dance on
I am an early childhood educator with 18 years of practice in the field. Nine of them have included working…
2 Dec 2020
A Postsecondary Institution Pedagogist’s Experience of Creating an Ecotone in a Pedagogical Context
I have been working as a faculty pedagogist for the past six years, and I am often asked to share…