Announcements

Call for Papers: Emergent Strategy in Early Childhood Care and Education

2026-05-18

We invite completed papers for our issue that will showcase work that engages with, is inspired by, or aligns with the ideas explained in adrienne maree brown’s (2017) Emergent Strategy, as well as related work grounded in intentionality, relationality, interdependence, decentralization, and justice and equity, with a focus on what we are working towards. Aligning with the Emergent Strategy framework, we also open up possibilities and welcome papers that do not explicitly name their frameworks as ‘Emergent Strategy,’ but are engaging in similar work that explores how these ideas live in early childhood care and education (ECCE) and/or teacher education.    

Moving beyond ‘anti’ or deficit-based approaches, this issue highlights work that is responsive and grounded in desire-based (Tuck, 2009) approaches, not just critique. To ground us in this work, we ask: what becomes possible when the principles of Emergent Strategy meet Early Childhood Care and Education and/or Teacher Education?

Please see more information and the full Call for Papers on our website. 

Current Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2026): Special Issue - Slowing down in neoliberal times: Engaging in deep pedagogical listening as resistance

Photo Credit: Catalina Baeza Hidalgo . Photo is black and white and shows two children cupping their hands towards one another.

You are invited to engage in this special issue, which shares five pedagogical narrations across a wide range of topics; each includes “an ethical and creative event composed of ongoing communication and processes of re-living and re-enacting experiences” (Kim, 2023, p. 4). These pedagogical narrations ask us to consider how we can allow ourselves to slow down and engage in deep listening, which is the foundation for any reciprocal relationship, human and more-than-human, and an “active verb that involves interpretation” (Rinaldi, 2001, p. 80). I invite the reader to think about how this slowing down and attuning to our context can be a process of resistance against the “neoliberal regimes” that are evermore present in our work in education (Davies, 2005).

ISSN: 2368-948X

Published: 2026-03-11

Editorials

Slowing Down in Neoliberal Times: Engaging in Deep Pedagogical Listening as Resistance

Shawna M. Carroll

1-4

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Narrative artistries

Ecologies of Making

Reimagining Place, Construction, and More-Than-Human Entanglements

Leoma (Thy) Vo, Lavina Tam

5-56

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'Still, No One Was Naked'

Amplifications of Textile/Children Entanglements from Gather Round Preschool

Catherine-Laura Dunnington

57-97

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Narratives of Eagles Transcending European Ideology

Jessica Petersen, Frankie

98-137

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Becoming Conscious of One's Own Limits Within Nature to Live Sustainably

Catherine Samson, Elysia Raimondo, Jenny Rae Wilder, Amanda Fuller, Lyndsay Parrott

138-163

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Emergence with Rocks

Francine Donati

164-177

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Photo credit: Sylvia Kind