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

ECPN Conversation Series V: Part III

Date: November 9th, 2022

This was the third part to ECPN Conversation Series V, a series that focused on curriculum making with children and educators in the Interior of British Columbia. On November 9th, ECPN Pedagogist Teresa Smith and ECPN Director Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw shared the pedagogical processes involved in narrating children's dialogues with a 50-year-old maple tree over four seasons. This conversation highlighted an ongoing inquiry with children who are trying to live well together in unceded Secwepemcúl’ecw. The educators and pedagogist are taking seriously the understanding that children's relations with more-than-human others are deeply meaningful, never innocent, and requiring of thoughtful pedagogical responses.

For more information about and to access the recording of Conversations V: Part 1, read here. 

For more information about and to access the recording of Conversations V: Part 2, read here

Teresa Smith, ECPN Pedagogist in the Kamloops region, aims to cultivate collaborative relationships with educators, families, children and my pedagogist colleagues, to think otherwise about children and childcare, and co-build a community where all children can flourish.

Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, ECPN Co-Director, is a Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Faculty of Education and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research in Curriculum at Western University in Ontario, Canada. 

Video recording of Conversations V Pt. 3 can be accessed below.