What is your image of early childhood education? What is your image of an early childhood educator? What is your image of the child?
ECEBC Position Paper: The Role of the Early Childhood Educator in British Columbia
Proposition
(1) Invite students to engage in a collective reading of the ECE proposition paper “The Role of the Early Childhood Educator in British Columbia”. There might be words unfamiliar students, as well as terms and ideas that are intriguing and inspiring.
(2) Select 10 words from the Proposition Paper (possible list included below, for your consideration) and invite students, working in small groups, to illustrate these words with drawings NOT involving children / educators / humans.
(3) Create a space to share these drawings and invite each group to present their ideas
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delicate (“delicate, complex, situated pedagogical practices”
lively (“dialogues with early childhood educators about the lively potentialities of their evolving role”)
rooted (“the commitments to a culturally rooted vision of learning”)
livable (“move towards more livable worlds”)
co-create (“education is a space to co-create new worlds”)
unknowability (“listening with the recognition of the unknowability and unpredictability of human relations”)
reciprocal (“Reciprocal, respectful relationships with sensitivity to land, history, and culture”)
craft (“Educators collaboratively craft these pedagogical responses in local contexts”)
care (“an ethics of care that are democratic, inclusive, and joyful”)
inherit (“Today’s children inherit challenging issues”)
Additional Resources
Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada
Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory