In August 2023, the ECPN was excited to start offering early childhood pedagogy professional development services through a contract with the Ministry of Education and Child Care. With our valued long-term project partner, ECEBC ..read more

Since launching at the ECEBC Conference in May, re:materia’s exhi’pit has travelled to Surrey and Castlegar, appeared at MNBC Early Years Conference in Kelowna, and is now set up at the Kamloops Art Gallery where it invites visitors of all ages to engage with local waste materials by knotting and stitching waste pieces into fabric ..read more

Pedagogist: Shirley-Ann Royer Educators: Tianna, Annie, Brittany* Children: Alex, Joy, Spencer, Henri, Millie, Levi, Jana, Britta, Kelly, May, Haylie With support from ECPN leadership team – Meagan Montpetit & Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw This field note tells an incomplete story of the complex, interconnected worlds in which children live. In an early childhood classroom on Vancouver Island, we make curriculum that nurtures children’s relations with more-than-human entities and forces through glimpses of emerging relations among a group of three- to five-year-old children. When Brittany (an ..read more

ECPN Pedagogist Camilla Fusar Poli, ECPN Pedagogical Coordinator Meagan Montpetit, and ECPN Co-Director Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw discuss an inquiry with toddlers on light and shadow. This conversation emphasizes the role of photography in pedagogical narration ..read more

Encounters with Light narrates an pedagogical project that takes seriously child-light relations with toddlers in an early years program ..read more

For those familiar with the ECPN newsletter, The Here and Now, you’ll know that across the years we have worked to illuminate important issues that impact the lives of educators, children, families and communities, and invited the sector to deeply consider our ethical obligations to such issues and how we are implicated in them ..read more

Educator: Pippa Bowley Pedagogist: Tracy Barkman With support from ECPN leadership team – Meagan Montpetit & Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw For the past two years at a licensed family childcare on the unceded territory of the Sinixt, Sylix and Ktnuaxa peoples in the interior of British Columbia, we engage with the question of what might become possible when we get to know the water of this place. Motivated by our collective deep concern over the rising drought and fires in interior British Columbia, the inquiry began with weekly visits to a small ..read more

I am an uninvited settler of mixed ancestry living on the lands of the Lheidli T’enneh in northern British Columbia. I work as an ECPN pedagogist with multiple communities situated on the unceded ancestral lands of the Nakadzli, Saik’uz, and Wet’suwet’en First Nations. I acknowledge my responsibility as an uninvited settler to work in good relation with Indigenous peoples on the lands they have caretaken since time immemorial. As this blog series thinks with knowledges of Indigenous storytellers, I recognize my responsibility to work with stories in ways that attempt ..read more

The catalogue introduces the participatory artistic space of the re:materia exhi’pit, tracing the invitational intervals as they were offered at its launch at the ECEBC Conference in May of 2024 ..read more

This is a summary of the plenary panel discussion from the 2024 ECEBC Conference – Celebrating Our Collective Wisdom: Responding to the 21st Century, written by Kathleen Kummen and plenary panel members ..read more