Centring Black Life in Canadian Early Childhood Education- Part II
May 14, 2024
Relational Black knowledges are filled with possibilities for affirmative inquiry in early childhood education. Across two sessions, this presentation series explores the potential for pedagogical engagements with relational Black knowledges that are anti-colonial, affirm Black childhoods, are place-based, and unsettle neoliberal multiculturalism.
In this second session, ECPN pedagogist Chelsea Hann joined Dr. Nxumalo and ECPN co-directors, Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Kathleen Kummen. Together they continued to explore how relational Black knowledges hold possibilities for early childhood education in British Columbia.
Dr. Fikile Nxumalo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, where she directs the Childhood Place Pedagogy Lab and is also affiliated faculty in the School of the Environment and the School of Cities. Her work is centred on reconceptualizing early childhood education such that it is situated within and responsive to children’s inheritances of settler colonialism, anti-Blackness and environmental precarity.
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