Pablo Aránguiz Mesías, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
I am a professor at the intercultural indigenous williche Wekimün Chilkatuwe, Chiloé archipelago, Chile; associate researcher at the Young Lives Research Lab, York University, Canada; and PhD researcher at the INGENIO institute (CSIC-UPV), Spain. My research brings into dialogue decolonial approaches in pedagogy, youth studies, and common worlds encounters.
Jane Merewether, Murdoch University, Australia
I am a Senior Lecturer of Early Childhood, Indigenous and Cultural Studies. My work explores young children’s relations within their social and material environments in the context of ecological change. In particular, I am interested in cultivating pedagogies and response-abilities for living well with the world.
Teresa Smith, University of Western Ontario, Canada
I am a MPEd student and community pedagogist with the BC Early Childhood Pedagogy Network. My work with children, educators and families, centres relations with more-than-human companions. With drawing and other arts practices, I am interested in enlivening slow dialogues with plants, creating processes to engage with more-than-human knowledges, and opening conversations about 21st century childhoods.
Sharon Witt, Independent Scholar, UK
I am an early childhood/primary teacher and university teacher educator in geography and environmental education. As Co-Director of @Attention2Place, I engage children, teaching professionals and local communities in place responsive and relational pedagogical encounters with more-than-human worlds. I research from transdisciplinary, materialist, and posthumanist perspectives.
Sylvia Kind, Capilano University, Canada
I am a faculty instructor in early childhood education at CapU, and atelierista at the Capilano University Children’s Centre. My research engages with research-creation, a/r/tography, and feminist materialisms as I explore young children’s studio practices, their lively material improvisations and collective experimentations.
Catherine Hamm, The University of Melbourne, Australia
I am a sixth-generation settler to Bunurong/Boon Wurrung Country in the Kulin Nation. My teaching, research and writing foreground First Nations perspectives and environmental humanities, responding to children’s relations with Place and multispecies communities.
Cynthia López Valenzuela, 17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos, Península de Yucatán México.
I`m a doctoral candidate in Critical Theory at 17, Instituto researching, with Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw as my tutor, the process of transition to a collective disposition and more-than-human relations in the pedagogical practices in Latin America context. I work as Education and Culture Coordinator at Fundación Haciendas del Mundo Maya developing community education projects along with indigenous and rural communities in the península de Yucatán.
Sherri-Lynn Yazbeck, University of Victoria – Child Care Services, Canada
As an Early Childhood Educator, I approach ECE from an interdisciplinary perspective. I am interested in the entangled more-than-human relationships and encounters that take place with(in) everyday moments with children. I am curious how these entanglements can be made and remade to create an ethical, lively, situated pedagogical practice
Helen Clarke, Independent Scholar, UK
I am an early childhood/primary teacher and university teacher educator in science, geography and environmental education. As Co-Director of @Attention2Place, I engage children, teaching professionals and local communities in place responsive and relational pedagogical encounters with more-than-human worlds. I research from transdisciplinary, materialist, and posthumanist perspectives
Meagan Montpetit, Western University, Canada
I am Ph.D. Candidate at the Faculty of Education. Grounded in feminist immanent spirituality and posthuman feminisms, my research engages with the pedagogical nuances of educator/child/more-than-human assemblages.
Fikile Nxumalo, University of Toronto, Canada
I am an Assistant Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, where I direct the Childhood Place Pedagogy Lab. I am also affiliated faculty in the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto. My research focuses on anti-colonial place-based and environmental education.
Peter Kraftl, University of Birmingham, UK
I am Professor of Human Geography at the University of Birmingham(https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gees/kraftl-peter.aspx) and co-lead for the UK NIHR School for Public Health Children, Young People and Families Programme (https://sphr.nihr.ac.uk/). My research examines children and young people's environmental interactions and entanglements - from urban environments, to resources, to environmental change.
B. Denise Hodgins, ECPN, Canada
I am the Deputy Director of the Early Childhood Pedagogy Network. My research pushes for complex conceptualizations of child/more-than-human relations, as well as explorations and imaginings of how we might respond with care as both a vital material doing and ethico-political obligation.
Susana Cortés-Morales, Universidad Central de Chile, Santiago
I am an anthropologist with an interest in childhood studies and particularly children's relations with place, materialities and more-than-human worlds in Chile and Latin America, from a mobilities and feminist perspective. Get in touch if you are interested in participating in the Latin America Common Worlds reading/work group.
Kathleen Kummen, Capilano University, Canada
I am an instructor at the School of Education and Childhood Studies Co-Director of the Early Childhood Pedagogy Network. My research explores the implications for pedagogy when learning is no longer understood as an event that occurs within the individual, but a complex relational process.
Kelly-Ann MacAlpine, Western University, Canada
I am a part-time Assistant Professor and Research Associate at the Faculty of Education. My research brings feminisms and speculative storying methods to disrupt child-centred practices and reorient pedagogical and curricular processes in early childhood environmental education.
Cory Jobb, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
I am an assistant professor in early childhood education and PhD candidate in curriculum studies at UWO. My current research draws on children’s geographies and critical environmental early childhood education to rethink pedagogies of place within landscapes shaped by anthropogenic harms such as waste and climate change.
Jenny Ritchie, Te Puna Akopai | School of Education, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
My research interests are in social, cultural, and ecological justice; pedagogies that support children’s cultural, spiritual, and emotional wellbeing and citizenship enactment; and applying Māori conceptualisations in sustainability pedagogies.
Cristina Delgado Vintimilla
I am an assistant professor in the faculty of education at York University and a pedagogista within the Italian tradition. My research is interested in offering questions and activating pedagogical propositions that weaken the capitalist-neoliberal status quo that shape current educational worlds.
Elizabeth Boileau, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA
I am an Assistant Professor in environmental and outdoor education and teach in a new undergraduate program called Childhood Nature Studies. My research explores children’s empathy with the more-than-human world in outdoor education settings.