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Lisa-Marie Gagliardi
Scholar‑Educator • Professor • PhD Candidate
Current Projects
PhD Dissertation: Fooding Pedagogies
Drawing on early childhood education, feminist environmental humanities, and food studies, my dissertation responds to calls to rethink food relations in early learning settings (Green & Duhn, 2015; Levkoe, Brady, & Anderson, 2016). Situated in Ontario within a Fooding Collaboratory at a lab school childcare centre and connected to the Climate Action Childhood Network, the study treats everyday eating as a pedagogical encounter shaped by land, power, regulation, memory, waste, and more-than-human life. Working with feminist post-qualitative and common worlding approaches, I examine how food’s movements, transformations, and porosity can reorient pedagogy toward more just and ecologically accountable curriculum-making.
Fooding Collaboratory
Climate Action Childhood Network
My doctoral research on fooding pedagogies, is an extension of the Climate Action Childhood 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.
Climate Action Childhood Network
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