PODCAST · education
Pursuing Questions
by Kim Barton
Welcome to Pursuing Questions: Imprints of inquiry, possibilities for play, and provocations for living. This is a podcast, formerly known as The Playful Podcast, is for those cultivating an ethos towards mutual flourishing, healing, learning and living well throughout the human experience; and that is the vision for this space. Guided by 5 values and 3 intentions, what might be encounter? Intentions: Imprints of inquiry: I wish to capture traces of my journey, because I believe it is worthy of being studied. critiqued, and expanded upon. I aim to cultivate my own awareness, reflection, and empowerment in moving my practice. What I say here is a landmark in time; not meant to be absolute truth, rather, to be interpreted within the context discussed. Podcasting is a tool for collecting and archiving pedagogical moments, thought, decisions, and practice. Possibilities for play: I strive to expand the potential of parallel practices, by "going public" with incomple
Episodes
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4.5 What Can Facilitation Training Offer Pedagogical Leadership as a Concept?
Kinda chic to ponder a recent professional learning experience and apply it to my job, am I right? In this episode I am wondering about instructional skills, facilitation skills, and adult learning methods and how they relate to pedagogical leadership - as a concept, not just as the role. I…
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4.4 Mobility Changes as Pedagogy
Welcome to Season 4, Episode 5. In this episode, I ponder how my experience support my sibling with mobility changes is incredibly pedagogy: from learning about human interactions with wheelchairs, to house designs, to my own emotional processing. This is my first attempt to share stories beyond...
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4.3 Creating a Culture that Nurtures Greetings and Goodbyes
How do we simultaneously create a culture for effective goodbyes while orienting towards greetings? The late summer and early fall are a transitional time in early learning (and post-secondary education), and it can come with dysregulation for children, families, educators, students, and leaders....
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4.2 Rethinking Administration as a Pedagogical Practice
Season 4, Episode 3 was recorded in August 2025, but published nearly a year later. Guiding administrative processes in an undervalued sector is vulnerable and harrowing work to begin with, but becomes particularly potent at the intersection of operations and pedagogy. This is an intersection I...
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4.1 Pedagogy, Lately...
In Season 4, Episode 2. this episode is called Pedagogy, Lately... and it is a car recording after a conference. I reflect on topics such as how bias shows up in our work, the role of pedagogical documentation, my thoughts on teacher research and curriculum planning, the role of tools like...
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4.0 Welcome to Season 4 - With Another Name Change!
Welcome and/or welcome back! Check out this short episode for an introduction to Season 4 and the thinking behind the name change. Intro/ Outro Music by <a...
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3.2 Flight Log: Turbulence, Tides & Tracing Trajectories
How would you describe pedagogical leadership? What does the daily experience of pedagogical leadership look like and feel like? While our guiding documents and emerging literature attempts to define this role, there is so much value in exploring how pedagogical leaders describe and document…
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3.1 What could happen if we understood pedagogy more like ecology?
This episode was recorded on a walk home, where I ponder how we could shift our understanding of pedagogy towards a study of subtle systems and relations? What would that conceptualization invite of us? Join me as I ponder this question in this first episode of season 3. Support the show
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3.0 Season 3 - Pursuing Pedagogical Documentation and Reflective Practice Through Podcasting
Why do we document? How do we document? What do we document? When do we document? When does documentation become pedagogical? What activates pedagogical documentation? What about pedagogy inherently documents? What routines and rituals facilitate and sustain my reflective, responsive, relational...
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2.8 How Does Curriculum Really Emerge?
I've spiralled my way back to this question with a desire to unpack why I feel some tension around the terminology of "emergent" curriculum. Is curriculum the active agent? Does it reveal itself? If so, what role do educators play in taking up the passively emerging information? How do we use our...
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2.7 Why and How Do We Celebrate?
In response to questions about celebrating Halloween, I noticed an opportunity to explore why and how we celebrate in early learning communities. From thinking about relationships with families, to upholding integral rituals, to fostering cultural competency, to honouring what a seasons invites,...
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2.6 Creating Opportunities for Parallel Practices
I'm embedded within the September welcoming routines and rituals, and it's caused me to reflect on building relationships through the lens of parallel practice. As a pedagogical leader and course instructor, I wonder about the experiences afforded to educators and students that foster or erode...
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2.5 Wondering about mentorship within and across the human experience... and beyond
I've been curious about mentorship for several years, and I'm only just starting to connect my histories and futures of mentorship with the role(s) of healing, learning, and living well throughout the human experience. Wonder with me, here... Support the show
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2.4 Where are the foreclosures of research and the openings of pedagogy?
In this episode, I capture an ah-ha moment where I challenge the all-knowing assumptions of research by claiming its limitations, and instead leaning into the potential of pedagogical inquiry. I reflect on the constraints I sense as a researcher, and the freedom I can embrace within pedagogy. I...
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2.3 What Does Communal Growth Require?
What does communal growth require? What questions will we pursue together? Why? And what impact do we notice our pursuits have on our community? Support the show
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2.2 What Moves Us?
From literally exploring movement across our program to being moved emotionally, and to reflecting on how movement during the spring of 2023 is very timely, this episode stretches the question "what moves us?" to its edges. The episode captures my interpretations of children and educators…
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2.1 The Essential Shift
Sometimes we are moved into shifts. And that is what happened here. In this bonus episode I discuss how, in the process of refining my values, vision, intentions, and ethos within this space, I was moved to reconsider the name of the this podcast/journey. While play is embedded within my values…
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The Potential of a Pause
Pauses appear to be the opposite of so many scripts we hold as a collective society. They may counteract efficiency, fail to demonstration meaningful progression towards a goal, are sometimes viewed as stagnation, and often are difficult to represent within outcome-driven agendas. Here, I offer...
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1.10 Spiralized Experiences: What can the shape of a spiral offer us within our human experience?
In this mini-episode I capture several thoughts I've had over the past several years that have led me to absolutely revere spirals as metaphors in my personal and professional life. I'd like to give a generous shout-out to the content creators of the music in this episode. For show notes and...
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2.0 Seasons of Inquiry
Welcome to my version of "season 2" of this playful podcast. I took a long, playful, pedagogical, and personal pause and now I'm here again to revisit many of the topics discussed in the first 10 episodes. I'm excited to offer these ideas here, but even more excited to hear your thoughts on these...
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1.9 Authentic Conversations with Colleagues: Thinking about Art, Music, and Dance with Young Children - with Victoria Armstrong
Victoria, owner of Side by Side Consulting Services, is a skilled thinking partner for early childhood educators and brings many rich experiences and wisdom to this 2-part conversation. In this episode, and part 1, we engage is an authentic, reflective, and open conversation to explore our...
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1.8 Pondering Pathways - Play! (Part 2)
Welcome back to a playful episode about play! While I intended for this episode to be about play theorists, the benefits of play, and how play and learning are interconnected, I ended up taking a walk and capturing some recent reflections from my own practice and experience about how I value and...
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1.7 Wondering About Inclusion From One Family's Perspective, with Special Guest Sandy B.
What happens when a Human Resources manager (mom), a student teacher (middle sibling), and a grad student (eldest sibling) FaceTime for 5 minutes? Well, when it's my family, we start theorizing about inclusion. What started as a spontaneous video call, turned into a deep conversation that...
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1.6 "As Music" - Spoken Word Poem/Reflection
This is not so much an episode but 'going public' with this piece is a growing part of my documentation practice. This 'episode' is a spoken word poem that I wrote over a year ago that marks a particular place in a learning journey. I wrote this under the mentorship of Andrea Breen during my the...
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1.5 The Embedded, Embodied and Imbued; a Conversation with Bob Henderson
In this episode, I had the great pleasure of chatting with outdoor education 'guru' Bob Henderson. As an experienced educator, guide and writer, Bob exudes wisdom when discussing of ways being with people outdoors. Through this conversation Bob and I find many not-so-surprising connections…
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1.4 Pondering Pathways - COEO Reflections
In this solo episode I reflect on my experience attending the fall conference held by the Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario (COEO). I wander through reflections and realizations that I had during the conference and since, covering themes of what 'belonging' means and to whom, the limits of...
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1.3 Glorified Babysitting
In this solo episode I reflect on the fight that ECEs are in to professionalize our work and gain respect by leveraging away from being considered as glorified babysitters. I wander through wonderings about different types of care and education across time, space, and cultures, and ask questions...
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1.2 Play! (pt 1)
In this solo episode, I (finally!) discuss what play is! I challenge my own vision of play, getting along, and sharing. I also highlight other folks' knowledge, such as definitions of play, types of play, schemas of play, and rhetorics of play. This episode is rooted in early childhood education...
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1.1 Pondering Pathways - Prerequisites to Play
In this solo episode, I introduce a mini-series that I intend to continue called Pondering Pathways, where I take a walk around my neighbourhood while reflecting on what is required to access play. I follow up from my questions about Treaty 3 from my first episode and then I contemplate some...
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Pilot: Playful Pedagogies and Podcastings
In this solo pilot episode, I introduce myself and my orientations toward play, share some ideas about my intentions for this podcast, and try my hand at defining 'pedagogy' from the ECE perspective. After disclosing some of own playful journey into podcasting, I try answering the rapid fire...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Pursuing Questions: Imprints of inquiry, possibilities for play, and provocations for living. This is a podcast, formerly known as The Playful Podcast, is for those cultivating an ethos towards mutual flourishing, healing, learning and living well throughout the human experience; and that is the vision for this space. Guided by 5 values and 3 intentions, what might be encounter?
Intentions:
Imprints of inquiry: I wish to capture traces of my journey, because I believe it is worthy of being studied. critiqued, and expanded upon. I aim to cultivate my own awareness, reflection, and empowerment in moving my practice. What I say here is a landmark in time; not meant to be absolute truth, rather, to be interpreted within the context discussed. Podcasting is a tool for collecting and archiving pedagogical moments, thought, decisions, and practice.
Possibilities for play: I strive to expand the potential of parallel practices, by "going public" with incomple
HOSTED BY
Kim Barton
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