In this conversation, ECPN pedagogist April Martin-Ko and ECPN Co-Director Kathleen Kummen discussed pedagogical practices that invite children and educators to engage deeply with ideas, questions and curiosities over long periods of time.  April shared vignettes from her work that illustrate what might be possible when collective thinking, learning and doing are nurtured in early childhood spaces.

April Martin-Ko is an ECPN Pedagogist working with children, educators and families in East Vancouver at Kiwassa Neighbourhood House. Her pedagogical commitments focus on the significance of collective encounters with children and educators through aesthetic attunement with life’s rhythms, materials, land, and place, wherein, transformation and re-thinking educational spaces might take place.

Kathleen Kummen, ECPN Co-Director, is an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at Thompson Rivers University. She is a member of the Common Worlds Research Collective and the Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory.