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I am a Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Faculty of Education and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research in Curriculum at Western University in Ontario, Canada. Prior to joining Western University, I was a Professor at the School of Child & Youth Care at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, where I now serve as Adjunct Professor.    

I am also Senior Fellow of NORRAG, co-director of the Pedagogist Network of Ontario, and co-director of the British Columbia Early Childhood Pedagogies Network.   

My writing and research contribute to the Common Worlds Research Collective (tracing children's relations with places, materials, and other species), and the Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory (experimenting with the contours, conditions, and complexities of 21st century pedagogies).   

My SSHRC-funded research explores climate change pedagogies with children, and children’s relations with waste and materials in the global North and global South.    

I am the author/co-author of more than 40 peer reviewed articles, and six books including The Common Worlds of Children and Animals: Relational Ethics for Entangled Lives (Routledge, 2018), Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education (Routledge, 2017), Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education (Routledge, 2015), Youth Work, Early Education, and Psychology: Liminal Encounters (Palgrave, 2016), Journeys: Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Practices (University of Toronto Press, 2014), and Flows, Rhythms, and Intensities of Early Childhood Education Curriculum(Peter Lang, 2010).   

I am a co-editor of the open access Journal of Childhood Studies (SSHRC-funded) and the Bloomsbury book series Feminist Thought in Childhood Research.  

I am currently recruiting graduate students who are keen to work and study as part of the Common Worlds Research Collective and the Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory.  I welcome students who speak Spanish and are interested in Latin American projects.  


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Western Univeristy
Faculty of Education, John George Althouse Building
1137 Western Road
London, Ontario
Canada N6G 1G7