{"id":459,"date":"2022-02-24T15:44:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T15:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livingwithplastics.climateactionchildhood.net\/?page_id=459"},"modified":"2022-09-21T03:08:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T03:08:37","slug":"about-the-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/livingwithplastics.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/about-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"About the project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We are a group of educators, pedagogists and researchers, and members of the Common Worlds Research Collective.  The Common Worlds Research Collective<\/a> is an interdisciplinary network concerned with our relations with the more-than-human world.<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw<\/strong> is a Professor of Early Childhood Education<\/a> in the Faculty of Education at Western University<\/a> in Ontario, Canada.  She is the principal investigator of the SSHRC Insight Grant Transforming Waste Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education<\/em><\/a>, and directs the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant  Exploring Climate Change Pedagogies with Children<\/a>. <\/em>Her writing and research contributes to Common World Childhoods Research Collective<\/a> (tracing children\u2019s relations with places, materials, and other species), and the Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory<\/a> (experimenting with the contours, conditions, and complexities of 21st century pedagogies).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelly-Ann MacAlpine<\/strong>, PhD, is currently a part-time Assistant Professor and Research Associate at the Faculty of Education, Western University. Her area of study is early childhood environmental education, with a particular interest in how common worlds pedagogies and speculative storying rethink pedagogical and curricular approaches to support children\u2019s sensitivities to, and relations with more-than-human others in environmentally precarious times. Her writing and research contribute to the Common Worlds Research Collective<\/a> and Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory<\/a>.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maureen Cullen<\/strong> is an early childhood educator and a professor of early childhood education at Fanshawe College. She has earned a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Early Childhood Leadership, Master of Arts degree in Education from Western University, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Curriculum Studies at Western University. Some areas of research that interest her are the practices of early childhood educators and curriculum making with young children in ways that move toward reconstituting relations and exploring possibilities with human and more-than-human others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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London Bridge Childcare Services<\/strong> is a large network of 19 Early Childhood Learning Centres and after-school programs based in Southwestern Ontario. As an organization they are committed to actively engaging in innovative pedagogical practices that orient toward ethical living in an ecologically and socially just more-than-human world. Their collaborative involvement with the Western research team includes a strong commitment and creative contribution from the following dedicated team of educators: Charlotte Prince, Hayley Bolton, Sheena Kho, Karen Welch, Becka McComb, Melanie Besinio\u202fLaurie Minten; as well as the leadership of London Bridge pedagogist Lindsay Sparkes; and support from the centre chefs.\u202f<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pedagogical Orientation <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We are drawing on questions from the environmental humanities to reconfigure early childhood education pedagogies, and to develop new insights into how young children might be able to shift waste futures. Read more in Living with Plastics: Toxicity Accumulating.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are inviting children to attend to waste(ing) by: <\/p>\n\n\n\n