To illuminate

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The artifacts selected for this movement tell stories of possibilities: of making a difference in the world, of being accountable, of living well and authentically together and knowing that our practices matter, of creating spaces through motion and careful attention to making things and ideas visible. Here, “boundaries between the waves are illuminated and reconfigured in their meaning” (Hill, 20, p.2).

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Artifact #1

Essay: Critique and Creativity as Enactments of Leadership in Early Childhood Education

(ECED 585F – Leadership and Policy in Early Childhood Education)

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This artifact illuminates the ways I have come to know myself as a leader and advocate in early childhood education. In this essay I have described acts of critique and creativity that I am enacting and encouraging in my professional practice with the intention of making visible the endless exciting possibilities in education in these times of transformative change.

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Artifact #2

Essay: Shifting the Power Balance: Privileging Indigenous Narratives in Early Childhood Education.

(ECED 508 - Review of Research in Early Childhood Education)

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This artifact illuminates some specific ways in which early childhood educators can privilege Indigenous narratives in early learning environments, to begin to address the legacy of colonialism and the systemic exclusion of Indigenous narratives in education. This paper draws on current research calling on educators to resist westernization and nurture relationships, and discusses two-eyed seeing and both-ways pedagogy as frameworks for restoring a balance of power in early childhood education.

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Artifact #3

Workshop/Discussion Series: Nurturing Children’s Literacies - Sociocultural Approaches in Early Childhood (LLED 556 – Theory and Research in Early Literacy)

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This artifact is a workshop inviting pre-service and/or in-service early childhood educators to read and reflect on research in the field of early literacy. With this assignment, I wanted to shine light on socio-cultural approaches to literacy, through dialogue about children’s own interest and agency in literacy learning, culturally and linguistically diverse children and families, Indigenous ways of knowing literacies and new media literacies. This is a practical application of my learning in this course, and I look forward to using this resource with students in a college setting.