Relational Black knowledges are filled with possibilities for affirmative inquiry in early childhood education. In this dialogue we return to engage with the possibilities for pedagogical engagement with relational Black knowledges that are anti-colonial, affirm Black childhoods, are place-based and unsettle neoliberal multiculturalism.​

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 seeks to make conceptual, methodological, curricular and pedagogical contributions in disrupting colonial erasures, anti-Blackness and anthropocentrism in environmental and climate change education with and for children.