Thinking Otherwise: Pedagogists & Feminist Praxis in EC Education

Please join us for a public lecture with guest speaker Professor Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, with lunch provided before the lecture begins.
About this Event

This public lecture is part of the Stewart Alan Robertson Lecture Series funded by the Robertson Endowment.

It is jointly hosted by:

• The Children and Young People (CYP) Thematic Hub, MHSES
• The Teacher Education, Curriculum and Pedagogy (TECP) Thematic Hub, MHSES
• The Early Years Research, Policy and Practice Group, MHSES
• The Sustainability in Education Research Group, MHSES
• Wanda Stuardo Troncoso and Minkyung Kwon from the Feminist Childhood Studies Collective, with mentoring support from Marlies Kustatscher, MHSES

Speaker:

About this event

This lecture brings together three lines of inquiry to consider the role of the pedagogist in early childhood education in Canada. Drawing on a working feminist manifesto, it calls for resisting the anti-intellectualism that continues to shape the field and for engaging pedagogical work as deeply political and ethical. It proposes decentering the child as a critical move, challenging developmental logics that privilege mastery and linearity, and instead opening space for more complex relational engagements. Finally, it attends to the situated work of pedagogists, tracing modes of response such as reading, interpreting, interrupting, and asking unconventional questions. These are offered not as competencies, but as gestures that orient pedagogical encounters toward invention. Taken together, the lecture argues for reimagining early childhood education as a relational commons, where pedagogists participate in composing conditions for thinking otherwise.

About the speaker

Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw is a Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Faculty of Education at Western University in Ontario, Canada. Her funded research program, spanning the global South and North, focuses on the reconceptualisation of early childhood at the critical junctions of ecological and social justice. This work is developed through her involvement with the Climate Action Childhood Network and the Common Worlds Research Collective.

Venue information

This event will be held at the University of Edinburgh, with the exact venue (either at Old College or Moray House School of Education and Sport) to be confirmed closer to the time. It will be an in-person only lecture, starting with lunch provided at 12:45 - 13:30, along with the opportunity to network. The lecture will then begin at 13:45 and will run until 15:15. This will be followed by the opportunity for a further 30 minutes of networking.

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