PhD Dissertation: Fooding Pedagogies

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Drawing on research from early childhood education, feminist environmental humanities, and food studies, my doctoral research responds to the urgent call for a thorough rethinking of food relations in early education settings (Green & Duhn, 2015; Levkoe, Brady & Anderson, 2016). Thinking with fooding pedagogies interrogates how attending to transformations, movements, and porosity of fooding can open possibilities for more livable futures. Accordingly, my research questions ask: How might feminist postfoundational knowledges rethink early childhood fooding pedagogies? How might paying attention to pedagogy, learning and curriculum transform fooding relations? How might fooding pedagogies imagine, honour and enact relations for living well in early childhood education?

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Climate Action Network (CAN) Project

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My doctoral research on fooding pedagogies, is an extension of the Climate Action Network (CAN) project, which is a 3-year SSHRC-funded PDG project led by my supervisor, Dr. Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw (PI). My doctoral research contributes to the CAN project’s goal to ensure that children's awareness, knowledge, and engagement related to 21st century climate change is well supported in early childhood education. This project fills an important gap within the climate change literature by providing what may be the first knowledge synthesis about young children's roles as agents of environmental change.

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Provincial Centre of Excellence for the Early Years & Child Care

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I am a Regional Coordinator in Toronto & GTA for the Provincial Centre of Excellence for the Early Years and Child Care.  “The Centre leverages the knowledge and strong work already present in the province by collaborating with researchers, policy makers, early childhood educators, families, and children to promote innovative early childhood pedagogies,” said Dr. Heydon. “Every aspect of the Centre is designed to have pedagogy, diversity, knowledge-sharing, and accountability at its core, all for the benefit of children and families.”