Drawing as a Passageway for Movement
Courtney Amber
Having worked in early childhood for eight years, Courtney is committed to pedagogies concerning ecology, classroom rhythms and rituals, and gender performativity.
Chelsea Hann
Living on the lands of the Lheidli T’enneh in Prince George, Chelsea has a decade of experience working with children and families. Bringing a passion for local knowledges and storytelling into her role, Chelsea’s work with centres currently spans a territory of 600km2, supporting five rural communities across Northern BC.
Haideh Hashemi Nouri
Haideh has worked in various capacities as an early childhood educator on Vancouver’s North Shore. Thinking with ‘living well together’ within our diverse context, Haideh is committed to create pedagogical spaces for collective and reflective dialogue with educators towards a curriculum that is responsive and relational, inclusive and equitable."
Janet Lacroix
Janet has been working in the field of early childhood education for three decades and holds an MEd in Early Childhood Education from the University of British Columbia. She brings a life-long passion for supporting the well-being of young children within a thriving world and her practice embraces ethical considerations of care and collective empowerment for the flourishment of all beings.
Karen Boley
Karen seeks to collaborate with educators in the co-creation of a more inclusive society using Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and by challenging social inequality through arts-based pedagogies.
Frances Smyth
Frances is an ECPN pedagogist working and living in Nelson, BC. Frances works with common worlds pedagogies to create intentionality in the language she uses, the questions she asks, the materials she chooses, and the way she engages with the creation of curriculum. She brings with her a desire to think about community as composed of more than just humans. She has a background in Sociology and has worked in many positions in the field of Early Childhood Education such as Early Childhood Educator, Program Director, and Inclusion Coordinator.
Each month ECPN Community Stream pedagogists gather to discuss various conceptual and experiential happenings of their work as becoming pedagogists. In the fall of 2021, pedagogists formed small cross-regional groups to curate and share their engagements with drawing. Groups of pedagogists have come together to engage with their documentation to provoke us to think about how we might think and do drawing pedagogically in relation with children, educators, and each other. Each month’s offering has been in responsive to the previous offerings, and so although this is a blog post is a video from our December gathering, it carries with it the provocations and ideas offered by the pedagogists in October and November.
Courtney, Chelsea, Haideh, Janet, Karen and Frances, extend thanks and gratitude to the children, families, and educators for their permissions to share their co-learning learning journey, and their participation in the ECPN.
