112R_Engaging with place – Foregrounding Aboriginal perspectives in early childhood education (research summary)

Are you interested in how to embed Aboriginal perspectives in early childhood education regarding space?  Our summary today works with the chapter titled Engaging with place – Foregrounding Aboriginal perspectives in early childhood education from 2017 by Catherine Hamm and Kelly Boucher, from the book titled Found in Translation: Connecting reconceptualist thinking with early childhood education practices. This episode is a great preparation for our next interviewee, Kelly Boucher in episode 114.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the different aspects of how to engage with place, and in a broader sense with our environment. This chapter presents the Aboriginal worldviews which are in a relationship with space including human and non-human elements. As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects: Pedagogy and curriculum can be situated as knowledge mobilization – ways to enact knowledge, rather than just storing content and in situating place as a pedagogical contact zone, we acknowledge that places are always in a state of entanglement of human and more-than-human others. Being present opens spaces to rethink pedagogies as a way to think with concepts and ideas, rather than thinking about or consuming content. Learning to be affected’ term can be useful to make room for understanding place as a generative pedagogical zone which attends to the ways in which places are entangled in all kinds of bodies and works to disrupt the linear thinking of place. You can find the chapter through this link, and the book through this link. Connecting episodes you might be interested in: No.078 - Interview with Ammon Beyerle highlighting the importance of aboriginal ideas; No.114 - Interview with Kelly Boucher about creating new pedagogical appraoches; You can find the transcript through this link. What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available. I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in. Music by Lesfm from Pixabay