Crab Babies and Other Encounters: Rediscovering the pedagogy of presence, of timelessness, of creating space worthwhile within the Early Childhood Classroom.

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Published: Jun 21, 2017
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young children, early childhood, education, pedagogy, early childhood practice

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Julia Black
Capilano University

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Through stories situated in place, this paper is a revealing account of my journey as an early childhood educator that continues to be an unraveling of sorts, a disentangling from the dominant discourses that have shaped pedagogical practice.  In accepting Sameshima’s (2008) invitation to transform and develop an “embodied aesthetic wholeness” (p.30), rich and complex layers are illuminated, blindspots disrupted and possibilities emerge, in relation to place, and practice.  Layers within my own pedagogical practice dynamically moving between the tension of what I know, or had known and what I continue to attempt to un-know in order to create room for discovery.  Throughout this never-ending story, I draw upon the work of Jardine, Foucault, and Pelo for points of inspiration and reflection.

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Black, J. (2017). Crab Babies and Other Encounters: Rediscovering the pedagogy of presence, of timelessness, of creating space worthwhile within the Early Childhood Classroom. Journal of Childhoods and Pedagogies, 1(2). Retrieved from https://jcp.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/jcp/article/view/15
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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2017): Pedagogy and Place
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Julia Black, Capilano University

Working in both the non-profit and private sector of early childhood since 1994, Julia has developed early childhood programs and facilities for children 3 months to school age within the Sea to Sky Corridor in BC.  Julia is a Field Consultant for the High Scope Educational Research Foundation and works with HighScope Canada to provide mentoring and teacher training in all areas of the HighScope Educational Approach.  Julia also coordinates a Children First and Success by 6 community mobilization project in the Sea to Sky corridor and is a faculty member in the Early Childhood Care and Education Department at Capilano University.

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