Past Events

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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