Golda Lewin

Pedagogical Commitments:

As an ECPN community-based pedagogist, I am dedicated to nurturing curiosity, uncertainty, subjectivity, and speculation through practicing a relational ethics of care (Tronto, 2009) with the intention of cultivating the emergence of affirmative modes (Braidotti, 2017) of interrelating in ECE. Thinking with an ontological framework of the becoming subject (Braidotti, 2018), an affirmative approach to ECE involves actively attuning to the complexities of the past and present while working to imagine and enact otherwise configurations. For me, these propositions towards generative relationality form the basis of my prefigurative practice (Fielding & Moss, 2012) as I strive to experiment with what might be possible in ECE and actively engage in being part of bringing radical alternatives to life. One of my main pedagogical commitments, which I would like to share here, is to approach political democracy as an everyday ethical practice (Moss, 2011). As an ECPN pedagogist, this means I am committed to noticing and nourishing political participation and pedagogical decision making in all facets of early childhood education and connecting these processes to world making. Through this attention to democratic practices, I hope to experiment with cocreating, alongside educators and children, complexified, situated, and localized pedagogies in response to the collective conditions we encounter in our communities.