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.