Commissioned Research Briefs
Common Worlds Research Collective. (2020). Learning to become with the world: education for future survival. UNESCO Background paper for the Futures of Education Initiative.
Learning to become with the world: Education for future survival
…education needs to play a pivotal role in radically reconfiguring our place and agency within …interdependent world. This requires a complete paradigm shift: from learning about the world in order to act upon it, to learning to become with the world around us. Our future survival depends on our capacity to make this shift.
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., & Khattar, R. (2018). Pedagogies for times of climate change: Closing the gap between nature and culture. In Ontario Ministry of Education Think, feel, act: Empowering children in the middle years. http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/childcare/brief_5_pedagogies_en.pdf
Published Reports to Research Sponsor
The Community Early Learning and Child Care Facilitators Pilot Project 2018: Year Seven
A key element of this community-based model of professional development is the role of the community pedagogical facilitator. Participating educators described the importance of this skilled role in holding the project together, in their own growing confidence to try new things and share ideas, and in their sense of increased connection and communication with those in and beyond the project. Another vital element of this model relates to time. Every project group talked about the importance of time in terms of establishing and building relationships among educators in the group, with their own centres, and in the community, as well as between educators and the pedagogical facilitator.
Pedagogical Facilitator Project 2017: year six
Through the project, educators were supported to (re)imagine and practice quality care, through their own local and contextual factors, and to consider the influence these factors have on their early years programming. Educators were also supported in their efforts to enhance children’s learning opportunities, experiences, and outcomes in early learning and child care settings. Through the project, educators reported increased facilitative relationships with children, families, and colleagues, and increased experimental and innovative relationships and practices with materials and environments.
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., & Hodgins, B. D. (2016). The Community Early Learning and Child Care Facilitators Pilot Project: Year five evaluation report. Victoria, BC: Unit for Early Years Research and Development.
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Benner, A., & Pence, A. (2015). The Community Early Learning & Child Care Facilitators Pilot Project: An evaluation of the fourth year of the project. Victoria, BC: Unit for Early Years Research and Development.
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Benner, A., & Pence, A. (2014). The Community Early Learning & Child Care Facilitators Pilot Project: An Evaluation of the Third Year of the Project. Victoria, BC: Unit for Early Years Research and Development.
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Benner, A., & Pence, A. (2013). The Community Early Learning & Child Care Facilitators Pilot Project. An Evaluation of the Second Year of the Project. Victoria, BC: Unit for Early Years Research and Development.
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Benner, A., & Pence, A. (2012). The Community Early Learning & Child Care Facilitators Pilot Project. An Evaluation of the First Year of the Project. Victoria, BC: Unit for Early Years Research and Development.
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., & Pence, A. (2011). Training for early childhood educators in British Columbia: A report and recommendations. Victoria, BC: Unit of Early Learning and Child Care Research.
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (2009). British Columbia Early Learning Framework Implementation Project: Research report. Victoria, BC: Unit of Early Learning and Child Care Research.
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Hoyland, T., & Handley, K. (2009). British Columbia Early Learning Framework Implementation Project: Research report. Victoria, BC: Unit of Early Learning and Child Care Research.
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., & Pence, A. (2009-2010). Investigating quality early childhood environments II: Research report. Victoria, BC: Unit of Early Learning and Child Care Research.
Pence, A., & Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (2007-2009). Investigating quality early childhood environments: Research report. Victoria, BC: Unit of Child Care Research.
Lee, J-A., & Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (2006). Minority and Indigenous Women Instructors Network (MIWIN): A background and discussion report with policy recommendations. Victoria, BC: Learning and Teaching Centre, University of Victoria.
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Berger, I., Kocher, L., Mort, J., & Isaac, K. (2006). Early education in British Columbia: Engaging in dialogue with Reggio Emilia’s early childhood project. Vancouver, BC: School of Leadership Centre, University of British Columbia.
Israelite, N. K., Herman, A., Khan, Y., Andino, R., & Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (2002). Voices of recent Latina immigrant and refugees: Effects of budget cuts on their settlement experiences. Toronto, ON: Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement.
Bernhard, J., Freire, M., & Pacini, V. (1998). Resisting enculturation in Canadian elementary schools: Culturally contested issues of Latin American parents. Toronto, ON: Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement.