Past Exposures
ECPN exposures are public events that expose participants to a wide range of interdisciplinary ideas, concepts and dialogues. The ECPN and its sister network, the Pedagogist Network of Ontario, are both thinking with the practice of the Exposure. The ECPN is working with the vision of pedagogista Cristina Vintimilla Delgado who writes of exposures:
The work of a pedagogist is not only about engaging with the world of early childhood education and how it appears in the present. The work of the pedagogist—the ability to envision and co-create pedagogical processes—is intimately related to pedagogists’ subjective dispositions towards the world more broadly, its past and futures, and thus to how they co-compose with the world and its inhabitants. Pedagogists envision. Envisioning, in this vital work, is tied to the ability to incorporate an idea into the present without repeating the present. Envisioning, then, requires that pedagogists enrich and alter the habituated regimes of perception—the sense making patterns—that sustain, reiterate and secure the present into the future.
An exposure creates a space for “being with”—being exposed to— ideas or situations that have the potential to create alterations and “redistribute the sensible” (Ranciere), as well as its ways of participating in common/shared living. Estrangement, refiguring, altering, being called by a sensing that can’t yet be made sense of are the generative instantiations that exposures offer to pedagogists, and that in turn pedagogists offer to their milieu.
~Cristina Delgado Vintimilla
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Animate Companionship: Drama, Performance and Education
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. Read More
Animate Companionship: Literature and Education
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. Read More
Using Drawing to Visualize Changing Landscapes
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. Read More
In Dialogue with Contemporary Art: Charmaine Lurch
This ECPN exposure was an invitation to be in dialogue with Charmaine Lurch’s artistic work. Read More
In Dialogue with Contemporary Art
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. Read More
Silvana Calaprice Exposure
Professor Silvana Calaprice from the University of Bari, Italy, joined in conversation with pedagogists and the wider community in May 2019. Read More
