Journeys

Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw is a professor of early childhood education in the Faculty of Education and director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research in Curriculum at Western University.Fikile Nxumalo is a doctoral candidate in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria.Laurie Kocher is an instructor in the Early Childhood Education Department at Douglas College. Enid Elliot is an instructor in Early Learning and Care at Camosun College and an adjunct faculty member in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria.Alejandra Sanchez is an instructor in the Early Childhood Education Department at Douglas College.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsBeginningLocating OurselvesHow to Use This Book 1. Engaging with Complexity Creating a Collaborative Critically Reflective CommunityConnections and Disruptions: Encounters with Diverse PerspectivesRethinking Professional DevelopmentCollaborative Action Research and Politicizing Practice Rethinking Quality in the Early Childhood Education Field Shifting Our Focus from Understanding Practice to Complexifying Practices 2. Reflecting CriticallyBringing a Critical Perspective to Child DevelopmentWhat Do We Mean by Critical Reflection?Critical Reflection and Political IntentionalityTheoretical Tools for Critical ReflectionPedagogical Narration: A Tool for Critical Reflection From Reflection to Diffraction 3. Challenging AssumptionsImages of the Child Images of the Educator Images of the FamilyChallenging Assumptions Complexifies the Learning JourneyPedagogical Narrations in the Making: From Our Work with EducatorsPrincesses and PiratesThe TiaraBecoming RapunzelEntangled BodiesBuilding a Fort 4. Thinking TogetherPedagogical Narration as a Tool to Complexify Practices Documenting Children's Learning across Three Contexts Reggio Emilia: Pedagogical DocumentationThe McDonaldization of Pedagogical Documentation Pedagogical Documentation as a Discourse of Meaning-MakingPedagogical Narration as a Political ToolPedagogical Narration as a Vehicle for Public DialoguePedagogical Narration as a Materializing Apparatus of Knowing 5. Opening to PossibilitiesEngaging with Pedagogical Narrations through Multiple LensesPostfoundational PerspectivesOpening to Multiple Perspectives Complexifies the Learning Journey 6. Opening to Ethics Inviting an Ethical Approach into Our PracticePedagogical Narration as a Nomadic Ethical ActCentring Ethical Potentials in Our Practice Staying in Motion Understanding Our Language: A GlossaryAppendix: Project SummariesInvestigating Quality (IQ) ProjectBritish Columbia Early Learning Framework Implementation ProjectReferencesIndex British Columbia Early Learning Framework Implementation Project