Pedagogist
The Early Childhood Pedagogist Program – funded by the BC Ministry of Education and Child Care and hosted by ECPN – supports early childhood educators in British Columbia. Pedagogists transform early childhood centres by working alongside educators and children in curricular projects that engage with the B.C. Early Learning Framework’s vision.
Role of a Pedagogist
Pedagogists join early childhood centres and invite educators, families and communities
to ask questions such as:
- What conditions are we living in that we want to interrupt?
- What conditions are we living in that we want to foster?
- How do these conditions and their legacies implicate educators / children / early education?
- How might we, using pedagogical narrations, make curriculum to engage children in creating
livable lives together?
Situated Pedagogical Projects
Pedagogists design and nurture pedagogical projects within local contexts that are deeply responsive to the conditions of our times. These projects are situated in the social, political, cultural, linguistic and material lifeworlds of communities.
Dialogical Pedagogical Projects
These pedagogical projects are designed through a deep engagement with pedagogical narrations. Through this dialogical curriculum-making process, pedagogists create spaces for educators to consider how to live well with young children (Vintimilla & Pacini-Ketchabaw, 2017).
Transformative Pedagogical Projects
Embedded within the role of pedagogists is a commitment to transforming structures and habits in early childhood education that are rooted in developmentalism and other Euro-Western dominant discourses. Pedagogists generate pedagogies that promote livable futures.
