to break apart

The artifacts selected for this movement relate to breaking apart what is or was assumed to be true, or what may have been true at a different time or in a different place. These artifacts tell stories of movement of thought, such as the overlapping of waves of water. When waves encounter other waves, they sometimes will combine to make larger waves or stronger waves, or they may in some cases cancel each other out. In any the possible movements, “the resultant wave is a sum of the effects of each individual component wave; that is, it is a combination of the disturbances created by each wave individually” (Barad, 2007, p. 76).

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Artifact #1

Essay: Sociocultural Perspectives in Early Childhood Education – Re-imagining my Professional Philosophy. (ECED 585E – Advanced Seminar on Research in Early Childhood Education: Sociocultural Perspectives on Early Childhood Education)

 

This artifact breaks apart my own professional philosophy as an early childhood educator and post-secondary ECE instructor. Through the use of quotes, this essay articulates my commitments to disrupt colonial narratives in education, and create space for diverse ways of knowing children, learning and relationships.

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Artifact #2

Essay with images: Loose Parts, Connected Wholes (ECED 420 – History of Early Childhood Education)

 

This artifact examines Loose Parts in the context of historical uses of toys and materials in early learning settings. In this essay I wanted to look at the origins of the idea of Loose Parts, and break apart the widespread and virtually uncontested adoption of this way of using materials as tools for learning, and trouble its current status as perceived best practice in ECE.

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Artifact #3

Blog post: Module 7.2 Space and Place in ECE: Relations between democracy, public space, place and common worlds - written in collaboration with Loa Zilles (ECED 585F – Leadership and Policy in Early Childhood Education)

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In our final course in this program, I had the immense pleasure of partnering with Loa Zilles, my colleague and friend in this cohort. This artifact is one example of our collaborative conversations and weekly writing in this course, in which we shared thoughts and photos of public spaces in our respective communities and considered how we could re-think relations between democracy, children, families and place.

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