Early Childhood Pedagogy Network
(ECPN)
The mobilizes the call for transformational change in early childhood education in British Columbia. In collaboration with communities, the ECPN creates spaces for vibrant public conversations about pedagogical processes and projects in early childhood spaces. The ECPN extends and formalizes the work of the Investigating Quality (IQ) (2005-2010) and Community Facilitators Pilot (2011-2018) projects. The ECPN works in partnership with the Early Childhood Educators of British Columbia (ECEBC) in the development of the and in the ongoing implementation of ECPN's funded by the BC Ministry of Education and Child Care.
re:materia program
The engages early childhood educators in creatively and critically reimagining pedagogical processes and curriculum-making around waste. Grounded in social and ecological justice frameworks, re:materia proposes new directions for early childhood education that rethink the Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) and refigure young children’s waste futures. re:materia is a partnership between ECPN and ECEBC.
Course Offering:
Waste as Material: Reimagining the ECE Classroom
Next Cohort: April 7 to June 29, 2025
Drawing on a range of perspectives, this course invites educators to rethink waste materials in early childhood spaces.
Modules:
- Relationships with Materials
- Common Worlding
- Materials and Waste
- Bringing it all Together
*22 Pro-D hours will be provided for completing the course
For more information please download the PDF or visit the .
Upcoming Workshops:
Please register for each workshop individually. You are welcome to attend any or all sessions.
Echoes and Emergences: Centering Black Life in Canadian Early Childhood Education
Relational Black knowledges are filled with possibilities for affirmative inquiry in early childhood education. In this dialogue we return to engage with the possibilities for pedagogical engagement with relational Black knowledges that are anti-colonial, affirm Black childhoods, are place-based and unsettle neoliberal multiculturalism.
Location: Zoom
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2025
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Pacific Time
Speaker: Dr. Fikile Nxumalo
Playing in the Anthropocene: Pedagogical [Re]Openings
In this conversation, Lisa Goddard and Adrianne Bacelar de Castro situate play within the story of early childhood education and consider how it has been shaped by developmental expectations and neoliberal pressures. Drawing on everyday moments from Lisa's work in early childhood settings, we will reopen possibilities for how play might be reconceptualized or even deconceptualized in the context of the Anthropocene. Together, we will think about play not as preparation for the future but as a way of creative world-making.
Location: Zoom
Date: Saturday, June 7, 2025
Time: 10:00a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time
Please register in advance for this webinar:
Amplifying the Voices of Transgender Kids in a Trans/Gender Justice Program
Drawing on the voices, experiences, and perspectives of transgender children who participated in an affirming trans/gender justice camp in B.C., this webinar centers children as knowledge-holders and active participants in shaping their worlds. Together, we think with the concept of world-making to imagine what becomes possible when we take children’s gender agency seriously and honour their capacity to speak for themselves.
Please register in advance for this webinar:
Location: Zoom
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Pacific Time
Speaker: TK Hannah
Professional Development Hours will be provided for all participants.
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