To intra-act
Waves of Sound
The artifacts selected for this movement tell stories of intra-action: moving and being with, within, and as part of – and different from the interaction of separate entities – in an entangled ontology of “re-working and being reworked by patterns of mattering” (Barad, 2014, p.20). They speak of mixing, mingling, crossing over of perspectives and experiences to create different and situated knowings.
​
Artifact #1
Essay: Righting Wrongs: Addressing the Legacy of Colonialism in Early Childhood Education
(ECED 420 – History of Early Childhood Education)
​
This essay describes the many moving entanglements of colonial influence on early childhood education, and the intra-action of patterns through past, present and future that have and continue to create a particular situated legacy in educational systems and structures. The essay first explores our troubled history in colonial Canada, and then defines specific strategies that I believe are necessary to reconcile historic wrongs and make space for Indigenous pedagogies in ECE.
​
​
​
​
​
​
Artifact #2
Blog post: Module #9 Teacher as leader (ECED 585F – Leadership and Policy in Early Childhood Education)
​
This artifact explores the overlapping and entangled roles of teacher and leader. In this contribution to course discussions about leadership in early childhood education, I found inspiration in the cited readings and videos toward a re-imagining of the ECE as collaborator, meaning-maker, ethical questioner, creative and critical thinker.
​
​
​
​
​
​
Artifact #3
Research Review - Media Presentation: The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write – Anne Haas Dyson, 2002. Group project completed in collaboration with Nick Chignall and Lauren Murphy - (LLED 556: Theory and Research in Early Literacy)
​
This artifact is a media presentation sharing our group’s learning after reading and reviewing Dyson’s (2002) ethnographic study of children learning to write in a racially diverse American classroom. Our review described the children’s ways of overlapping, mixing, re-mixing and re-contextualizing cultural materials as they created new ideas and expressions in and out of the classroom. I enjoyed mixing and re-mixing ideas with Nick and Lauren on this project, and I am grateful to share our work with their permission.
​
​