Current Projects
Common Worlds Research Collective
The Common Worlds Research Collective is an interdisciplinary network of researchers concerned with our relations with the more-than-human world. Members work across the fields of childhood studies, early childhood education, children’s and more-than-human geographies, environmental education, feminist new materialisms, and Indigenous and environmental humanities.
In response to the rapidly fluctuating political, social, and fiscal contexts of the 21st century, where globalization, migration, colonization, and increased digital communication have become central to daily life, the field of childhood studies has experienced significant shifts. As childhood becomes increasingly complex, the scholarly direction of childhood studies has turned toward issues of situated politics, environmental precarities, social justice, innovative pedagogies, and co-constructed knowledge. Journal of Childhood Studies (formerly, Canadian Children) aims to open space for publications related to the urgent, contested realities of globalized childhoods.
Early Childhood Pedagogy Network
ECPN mobilizes the call for transformational change in early childhood education in British Columbia. In collaboration with communities, the ECPN is committed to creating conditions for pedagogical leadership through the pedagogist role.
Climate Action Childhood Network
Responding to Ecological Challenges with/in Contemporary Childhoods
The Climate Action Childhood Network is an international collaborative partnership created by members from the Common Worlds Research Collectiveto generate insights about how young children, early childhood educators, and researchers learn together to engage with a complex array of collective challenges related to climate change
Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory
The Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory is a hybrid and experimental space where educators and pedagogues trace and experiment with the contours, conditions, and complexities of early childhood education pedagogies in the 21st century.