Maureen Cullen, Mount Royal University, Canada
I am a registered early childhood educator and an assistant professor of Child Studies. My research is grounded in Feminist New Materialist frameworks and Common Worlds pedagogies. I critically engage with the dominant discourses of scientism, modernism, and developmentalism in early childhood education, aiming to disrupt these paradigms by fostering more-than-human kinships and multispecies pedagogies. My dissertation explores the integration of pedagogical documentation, more-than-human kinships, and speculative storytelling in curriculum-making processes. Through my research, I aim to cultivate inclusive and equitable learning environments, offering hope for creative responses to global challenges such as climate change and promoting mutual flourishing for all entities, human and more-than-human.
Mary Caroline Rowan, Concordia University, Canada
Collaborative research relationships with Inuit Nunangat lands, waters and ice. To propose and develop pedagogies and curricula of consequence to sentient beings, with local orientations and global sensibilities.
Nikki Rotas, Western University, Canada
I am an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Western University. My research pertains to early childhood pedagogies, philosophy with children, and the field of curriculum studies. I am interested in the role of affect in teaching and learning in urban contexts.
Lisa-Marie Gagliardi, Seneca College, Canada
I am a Professor in the School of Early Childhood Education at Seneca College and a PhD candidate in Education Studies at Western University. My research emerges from the nexus of food studies, early childhood education and feminist environmental humanities with focus on crafting responsive otherwise food pedagogies with children.
Alex Berry, Western University, Canada
I recently completed my PhD in Curriculum Studies at Western University. I am an instructor of Early Childhood Education at Capilano University in North Vancouver, Canada and pedagogical coordinator/researcher with Santana school in Cuenca, Ecuador. Within postqualitative framings, my research puts into conversation research-creation and curriculum-making toward processes that might shape the emergence of alternative child-climate relations.
Narda Nelson, Western University, Canada
I am a Pedagogical Coordinator for the BC Early Childhood Pedagogy Network (ECPN) and pedagogist with UVic Child Care Services (Victoria, BC, Canada). I take an interdisciplinary approach to early childhood with a particular focus on reimagining ethical futures with plant, animal, & waste flow relations.
Adrianne Bacelar de Castro, Western University, Canada
I am Brazilian educator and PhD Candidate with years of experience working in elementary and secondary schools in Brazil. My research, inspired by common worlds pedagogies, is a humble response toward more livable worlds in the present human-modified geological epoch of the Anthropocene.
Sarah Hennessy, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
I am an artist/instructor/researcher teaching at the Faculty of Education and working with British Columbia's Early Childhood Pedagogist Network. My research merges art and pedagogy uncommoning early childhood environmental education in a more-than-human world.
Teresa Smith, University of Western Ontario, Canada
I am a MPEd student and community pedagogist with the BC Early Childhood Pedagogy Network. My work with children, educators and families, centres relations with more-than-human companions. With drawing and other arts practices, I am interested in enlivening slow dialogues with plants, creating processes to engage with more-than-human knowledges, and opening conversations about 21st century childhoods.
Sylvia Kind, Capilano University, Canada
I am a faculty instructor in early childhood education at CapU, and atelierista at the Capilano University Children’s Centre. My research engages with research-creation, a/r/tography, and feminist materialisms as I explore young children’s studio practices, their lively material improvisations and collective experimentations.
Sherri-Lynn Yazbeck, University of Victoria – Child Care Services, Canada
As an Early Childhood Educator, I approach ECE from an interdisciplinary perspective. I am interested in the entangled more-than-human relationships and encounters that take place with(in) everyday moments with children. I am curious how these entanglements can be made and remade to create an ethical, lively, situated pedagogical practice
Meagan Montpetit, Western University, Canada
I am Ph.D. Candidate at the Faculty of Education. Grounded in feminist immanent spirituality and posthuman feminisms, my research engages with the pedagogical nuances of educator/child/more-than-human assemblages.
Fikile Nxumalo, University of Toronto, Canada
I am an Assistant Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, where I direct the Childhood Place Pedagogy Lab. I am also affiliated faculty in the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto. My research focuses on anti-colonial place-based and environmental education.
B. Denise Hodgins, ECPN, Canada
I am the Deputy Director of the Early Childhood Pedagogy Network. My research pushes for complex conceptualizations of child/more-than-human relations, as well as explorations and imaginings of how we might respond with care as both a vital material doing and ethico-political obligation.
Kathleen Kummen, Capilano University, Canada
I am an instructor at the School of Education and Childhood Studies Co-Director of the Early Childhood Pedagogy Network. My research explores the implications for pedagogy when learning is no longer understood as an event that occurs within the individual, but a complex relational process.
Kelly-Ann MacAlpine, Western University, Canada
I am a part-time Assistant Professor and Research Associate at the Faculty of Education. My research brings feminisms and speculative storying methods to disrupt child-centred practices and reorient pedagogical and curricular processes in early childhood environmental education.
Cory Jobb, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
I am an assistant professor in early childhood education and PhD candidate in curriculum studies at UWO. My current research draws on children’s geographies and critical environmental early childhood education to rethink pedagogies of place within landscapes shaped by anthropogenic harms such as waste and climate change.
Cristina Delgado Vintimilla
I am an assistant professor in the faculty of education at York University and a pedagogista within the Italian tradition. My research is interested in offering questions and activating pedagogical propositions that weaken the capitalist-neoliberal status quo that shape current educational worlds.
Nicole Land, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
I am an assistant professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. My research focuses on children’s relations with fats, muscles, and movement through crafting postdevelopmental pedagogies that take seriously how bodies are implicated in complex common worlds.
Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Western University, Canada
I am a Professor of Early Childhood Education at Western University. My research contributes to the Common Worlds Research Collective and the Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory. I am interested in the real life-worlds that 21st-century children inherit, inhabit, and share with others – human and more-than-human; and how these life-worlds are shaped by the legacies of anthropogenic environmental damage, imperial expansion, colonial dispossession, global inequalities, and displacements.