Completed Projects
Encounters with Materials
Through an art-based collaborative inquiry process, we explored what it means to think with materials by considering how each material evokes particular intra-actions, and presents particular possibilities among/with/between young children. We investigated how materials shape us as much as we shape them, how materials are joint participants in early childhood pedagogies, and what happens when we see materials as events instead of objects.
Ontario Provincial Centre of Excellence for Early Years and Child Care
The Provincial Centre of Excellence promoted the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015) and embraced the values of Ontario’s pedagogical framework How Does Learning Happen (2014), including the view of children as protagonists in their own lifeworlds with participatory rights and responsibilities.
Secretariat for Centres of Excellence for Early Years and Child Care
The Secretariat coordinated the three Ontario Centres of Excellence: Indigenous, Francophone, and Provincial. As a collective voice, or network of networks, the Secretariat functioned as the mechanism for formulating and enacting inclusive goals for the professional learning of educators in Ontario who work with or on behalf of young children.
