I am a Pedagogist in Toronto, Canada and a PhD Candidate in Education at Western University in London, Canada . I am also a contract lecturer in education degree programs.
In my doctoral research, I experiment with feminist Common Worlding research methods to enact fooding pedagogies that pay attention to ethical complexities and interdependencies of humans-food relations. My interdisciplinary approach draws on feminist environmental humanities and food pedagogies to ask generative questions about taken-for-granted curriculum-making in Canadian early childhood education. In the role of a pedagogist, my research engages with young children and educators, and attends to the possibilities of thinking beyond developmental frameworks and neoliberal relational logics to consider how we might think, learn, and live well with each other in our more-than-human foodworlds.
Responding to Ecological Challenges with/in Contemporary Childhoods: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Climate Pedagogies
RECENT & UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Canadian Society for the Study of Education - Annual Conference
Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2020
May 30 - Jun 4, 2020
Cancelled due to Covid
Childhood And Time -
IX Conference Of The Finnish Society For Childhood Studies
May 11 - Jun 13, 2020
Cancelled due to Covid
Western University,
London, Ontario
Western University
London, Ontario
Tampere University
Tampere, Finland
Exhibit Presentation
"Fooding Collaboratory Manifesto"
with the Climate Action Network
Paper Presentation
"Dialogues and tensions: (Re)imagining pedagogy in times of climate crisis"
with Tanya Farzaneh
Paper Presentation
"Attending to metabolic temporalities with/in contemporary childhoods"
with Dr. Nicole Land
A special highlight in my career was the wonderful opportunity to spend an evening eating, drinking and talking with Professor Carlina Rinaldi
along with Dr. Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Dr. Laurie Kocher and Dr. Sylvia Kind
Reggio Emilia, Italy
August 2017
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