Unswaddling Pedagogy – How to prevent and overcome gaps in Early Childhood Education

Date/Time
Date(s) - Apr 26, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location
Tri-Cities CCRR

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In very practical, joyful, playful ways, the workshop will engage with the concepts and practices of swaddling, unswaddling and non-swaddling pedagogies, bringing into the attention of the audience the pivotal role of early education in the designs of life. The presentation will also focus on the “missing beginnings”- the reasons why there is a globally present disconnect between early education and school education. Dr. Annabella Cant will share findings from her doctoral journey in order to motivate the audience to think with the concepts and better understand the privilege of working with young children. She will continue the conversation on the introduced concepts and will share two examples of swaddling pedagogies: the “Moulding” one and the “Not-yet” one. Also she will introduce the theory and practice of Imaginative Education – a pedagogy that she considers close to being unswaddling – together with her own contributions to it, contributions that emphasize the period at the beginning of life: 0 to 5. Participants will get a glimpse of children’s genuine capacity for openness and wonder by feeling it themselves. Annabella will remind her participants how to be joyful, playful and open, and why these states of mind provoke deep and long-lasting learning in children.

Categories

• Administration and Communication
• Child Growth and Development
• Curriculum/Program Development
• Early Care and Education
• Professional Networking

Online
No

Registration Fee
$18.00 members $22.00 non-members

Presenter(s)
Annabella Cant

Presenter Information
Annabella received a PhD from Simon Fraser University in the Curriculum Theory and Implementation program under the supervision of Prof. Kieran Egan PhD. and Lynn Fels, PhD. Annabella is an Associate Director of the Imaginative Education Research Group at Simon Fraser University where she had been involved with Imaginative Education since 1999. At that time upon completion of her Master’s Degree at SFU, she initiated and managed childcare centres and kindergartens in Europe between 1999 and 2010 (humanitarian early childhood educational centers for children between the ages of 2 and 7) and initiated and co-chaired a charity that helped educating underprivileged young children. Annabella is the editor and author of her latest publication Wonder-full Education: The centrality of wonder to science, mathematics, humanities and art teaching – a book that offers a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general and provides multiple suggestions on how to revive wonder in adults (teachers and curriculum makers) and how to keep it alive in children. Annabella is an instructor at Capilano University’s department of Early Childhood Care and Education and a graduate sessional instructor at Simon Fraser University. Annabella is the initiator and manager of the Journal of Childhoods and Pedagogies - the online journal of the ECCE department of Capilano University. The journal is dedicated to valuable pedagogical work of students and educators alike. She is a voting member of the Senate Curriculum Committee, and the Dean's Advisory Committee at Capilano University. Her areas of interest include: unswaddling pedagogies; Somatic Understanding within the Imaginative Education philosophy; wonder and its pedagogical value in education; inclusive practices in ECCE; imaginative teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels; faculty learning communities. www.eliep.ca Twitter: @AskAnnabella Instagram: @AskAnnabella

Registration Contact Email
triccrr@gv.ymca.ca

Registration Contact Phone Number
604-931-3400 Ext., 0

Professional Development Certificate
Yes

Professional Development Certificate Credit Hours
4