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Past Events

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Animate Companionship: Drama, Performance and Education

Jul 4, 2023

In this exposure, Monica Prendergast, Juliana Saxton and Carole Miller consider Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies as companionship for thought and for our engagements with education. The panelists will discuss how their personal and professional lives encounter their love for Theatre and their interest in performance. They will propose considerations on the ways in which this form of art can be a companion for thinking education and for creating educational experiences. Each panelist will share insights from their work within Drama education and the processes that this work enables.

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Children’s Encounters with Spiders and Spider Webs: An Interactive Exhibit

Jun 30, 2023

This exhibit offered the Prince George community a glimpse into how children and educators, alongside an ECPN pedagogist, at a local child care centre, reimagine curriculum as an ongoing process that values listening and collaboration.

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Childhoods: Becoming, Inheriting and Unbounding Bodies

May 27, 2023

This exhibit contained glimpses into an ongoing inquiry with a group of children (1-6 years old) at HOP (Hands On Playcare) Early Childhood Education Centre in Terrace, BC. Eighteen months ago, children, educators, and pedagogists were provoked by the thoughts and ideas emerging from tracing and drawing life-sized bodies. The bodies made possible the co-creation of a curriculum that challenged idyllic notions of childhoods.

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ECPN Conversations VI: Part I “Responding to Place and Thinking with Monsters"

Apr 11, 2023

In part 1 of this conversation series, ECPN pedagogist Chelsea Hann and ECPN Director Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw discuss the pedagogical processes involved in creating relations and curriculum in rural Northern British Columbia. The conversation highlighted the interrelated processes of pedagogical commitments, responsive relationality and situated curriculum making. They shared traces from a pedagogical project, in which a shared commitment to thinking relationally with land provoked the pedagogist, children, and educators to seek the 'monsters' of this place.

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Animate Companionship: Literature and Education

Mar 30, 2023

In this exposure, Pauline Sameshima, Lara Okihiro and Aparna Mishra Tarc consider literature as a companionship for thought and for our engagements with education by creating a conversation between a poet, a children’s book author and a writer on the profound role of literary language in engaging childhood, knowledge, and worlds. Starting with the premise that literature and the arts can enable inventive practices that seek out alternative narratives in education, the panelists will discuss how literary language and texts can serve as companions for thinking.

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ECPN Conversations V: Part 3 In Dialogue with "The Gathering Tree"

Nov 9, 2022

ECPN pedagogist Teresa Smith with ECPN Director Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw share the pedagogical processes involved in narrating children's dialogues with a 50-year-old maple tree over four seasons.

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With the Gathering Tree: Explorations in noticing with earth others in Kamloops

Oct 24, 2022

With The Gathering Tree, narrated children’s efforts over four seasons to live well with a 50-year-old maple tree in the centre of their yard. Visitors to With The Gathering Tree exhibit were invited to participate in this ongoing project by contributing their own drawings.

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Mark Making: An Exploration of Charcoal

Oct 1, 2022

ECPN, Selkirk College and Exploration Station Child Care Program shared an exhibition of children’s exploration of charcoal. Through repeated invitations of charcoal the children have investigated patterns, movement, relationships and collaborative art processes.

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A Conversation with Gunilla Dahlberg: Educating 21st Century Educators

Jun 6, 2022

This conversation between Gunilla Dahlberg and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw considered the myriad conditions necessary to create more livable, inclusive and just early education system that reflects the complex pedagogical work undertaken by educators. 

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Encountering Worlds (ECPN Panel Discussion at the ECEBC 2022 Conference)

May 13, 2022

This session was a panel discussion moderated by Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw (BCECPN), and considered what conditions are necessary to create a livable, inclusive and just early years system that reflects the complex pedagogical work undertaken by early childhood educators.

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Using Drawing to Visualize Changing Landscapes

Jan 26, 2022

ECPN's fourth exposure was an invitation to be in dialogue with Nick Conbere’s work and explored ways to use landscape, seen through the lens of personal experience and narrative, to visualize intertwining relationships of the natural and human worlds.

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ECPN Conversations V: Pt. 2-"This is so Bad!"

Jan 25, 2022

Early childhood educators Iryna and Katina joined faculty pedagogist Michelle as they shared their living inquiry. Through investigating with bear scat, they shared their inquiry with the children, educators and families in thinking about the complexities in which we coexist on this land.

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ECPN Conversations V: Pt. 1

Oct 28, 2021

Frances Smyth, ECPN community pedagogist, joined by early childhood educator, Pippa Bowley, to discuss their experience working together on a sustained pedagogical project that explores collaborative map making with children.

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In Dialogue with Contemporary Art: Charmaine Lurch

Jul 7, 2021

This ECPN exposure was an invitation to be in dialogue with Charmaine Lurch’s artistic work.

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In Dialogue with Contemporary Art

Feb 12, 2021

ECPN’s second exposure brings artists Debra Sparrow and Justine A Chambers in conversation with Richmond Art Gallery's Director Shaun Dacey. In Dialogue with Contemporary Art highlights Debra and Justine’s art practices and processes as well as relations with the world they inhabit.

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ECPN Conversations IV

Oct 13, 2020

The early childhood pedagogy series, led by Early Childhood Pedagogy Network’s (ECPN) pedagogists, invites early childhood educators to think deeply about pedagogy and creating curriculum.

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ECPN Conversations III

Aug 26, 2020

The early childhood pedagogy series, led by Early Childhood Pedagogy Network’s (ECPN) pedagogists, invites early childhood educators to think deeply about pedagogy and creating curriculum.

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ECPN Conversations II

Jul 28, 2020

and July 30, 2020 The early childhood pedagogy series, led by Early Childhood Pedagogy Network’s (ECPN) pedagogists, invites early childhood educators to think deeply about pedagogy and creating curriculum.

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ECPN Conversations I

Jun 16, 2020

This three-part early childhood pedagogy series, led by Early Childhood Pedagogy Network’s (ECPN) pedagogists, invited early childhood educators to think deeply about pedagogy and creating curriculum.

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Silvana Calaprice Exposure

May 22, 2019

Professor Silvana Calaprice from the University of Bari, Italy, joined in conversation with pedagogists and the wider community in May 2019.

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ECEBC 50th Anniversary Conference Keynote Lecture

Apr 11, 2019

Keynote Lecture, by Affrica Taylor: Following and Narrating Children’s Common World Relations

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