Capilano University Early Childhood Education

While preparing for our next Conference we are remembering with joy the moments we spent together last year!
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Time to check out and register for our next annual Conference at Capilano University organized by the Centre for Research and Childhood Studies.

Conference theme: Unruly Childhoods. Untethering Praxis

Date: April 11, 2026, 8 am- 5 pm

Venue: Capilano University’s North Vancouver Campus

Conference theme
Unruly childhoods remind us that pedagogy is not a fixed script but a living disruption — a refusal of neat categories and an invitation to reimagine education as improvisation, resistance, and possibility. This conference foregrounds disruption as a generative force, asking us to rethink our praxis in spaces where educators, children, families, and environments resist conformity and welcome plurality.

Register here: https://www.wstcoast.org/workshops/conference-childhoods-pedagogies-centre-research-childhood-studies-capilano-university-4805-8100

Save the date! Conference for Childhoods and Pedagogies at Capilano University!
April 11, 2026
Call for Proposals is live!
Registrations will open on February 23, 2026!

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Instructor - Faculty of Education, Health & Human Development (Early Childhood Education) Nature and Scope of WorkAs an non-regular appointment:This non-regular faculty appointment will begin May 1, 2025.Instructor for theory and experiential courses within the Diploma of Early Childhood Care and Education and the Bachelors of Early Childhood Care and Education programs. This position wi...

Congratulations to our wonderful colleague, Jiyeon Kim, for her latest publication: "Reimagining Inclusive Education: Moving Beyond Tokenistic Gestures to Embrace Pedagogical Risk in Education" in the ECEBC Journal.
This article provides critical insights into inclusion, inviting us to consider the transformative potential of inclusive practices while emphasizing the importance of embracing pedagogical risk within educational contexts.
https://www.ecebc.ca/resources-merchandise/journal
Please consider becoming a member of Early Childhood Educators of BC.

ECEBC Journal - The Early Childhood Educator ECEBC publishes a journal titled

From our wonderful colleague, Dr. Anita Ewan:

I had the privilege of working with Dr. Melissa Tremblay and highlighting some of the incredible work she’s doing with Indigenous children and families in Alberta in this recent publication. While measurement tools can be problematic when not applied with care, Dr. Tremblay’s work thoughtfully addresses these concerns by grounding her approach in a relational and culturally safe framework.

Here is the citation to the publication: Tremblay, M., Ewan, A., Kruschke, Z., Willsie, J., Kagan-Cassidy, M., Rattlesnake, C., & Downie, H. (2025). Developmental Screening With Indigenous Families: Perspectives of Early Years Home Visitors on the ASQ-3. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/02568543.2025.2475881

Here is the link to the publication: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02568543.2025.2475881.

Developmental Screening With Indigenous Families: Perspectives of Early Years Home Visitors on the ASQ-3 There is a need to add to the limited knowledge base regarding how developmental screening tools can be used in effective and culturally safe ways with Indigenous children and families. The purpose...

Still spots available!

Publications In August 2023, the ECPN was excited to start offering early childhood pedagogy professional development services through a contract with…

If you are missing Violet Jessen, our wonderful retired colleague, come join her in Surrey at a workshop filled with music, colours, movement, and ... ukuleles!

Exploration of Sound, Music, and Movement - Child Care Options The sense of wonder is one of the most natural and present abilities of all children. The power to explore the world using all senses should always be cherished and fully utilized in child care centers, as the BC Early Learning Framework suggests. Our workshop will engage with the sense of hearing a...

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Our conference's schedule and presenters:
8.30 – 9.30 - Opening remarks (10 min each)
Indigenous blessing, Brad Martin, Violet Jessen, Julia Black, Sara Sutherland, Bo Sun Kim
9.30 -10.00 - Coffee break
10.00 - 12.10 - Morning Presentations (15 min/presentation)
Shawna Carroll - Beyond resistance: Emergent strategy in early childhood teacher education
Sera Oh - Image of Childcare Operators: Reconceptualizing and Experimenting with
the Childcare Operation through Post-Secondary Education
Anita Ewan - Holistic Learning Ecosystems: Embracing Parent-Students and Their
Children in Higher Education
Catalina Baeza Hidalgo - Living and Learning Together: Relational and Entangled Practices
Sara Sutherland, Adrienne Argent, Johanna Po, Sylvia Kind - Artfulness and
enchantments: Being in the doing, making, and undoing together with children
Sarah Hennessy and students: Kayla Fiorda, Susana Pineda, Larissa Guenther
Presentation: Geographies of Watercolour
Exhibit: An Uncommon field guide. Place relations within a common world
Tatiana Zakharova-Goodman
Presentation: When Colours Strike: Notes from Atelierista
Exhibit: Revisiting Questions: Documentation, Field Notes & Artifacts
12.10 - 13.20 - Lunch
13.20 - 15.30 – Afternoon presentations in breakout rooms (2 hrs/ each + Q & A)
Jiyeon Kim and Haideh Hashemi Nouri - Cultivating Ethical and Inclusive Spaces in Early
Childhood Education: Thinking with Emmanuel Levinas and Hannah Arendt
Nancy van Groll, Ali Morrow - Pedagogical Documentation and Child-Place Entanglements:
Lively Practices for Noticing, Witnessing, and Responding
Elaine Beltran-Sellitti and Educators: Tina Coppersmith, Samantha Fung, Heather Craft, Olga Kishimoto,Jessica Frayutti-Lopez and Jane Chan. - On Becoming Story-Ready. Gatherings with Indigenous
Picture Books, Knowledge Holders and Early Childhood Educators
Sara Sutherland, Adrienne Argent, Johanna Po, Sylvia Kind and Educators - Marking, making,
opening: documentation practices with children
Exhibits will be available in the afternoon.

Conference for childhoods and pedagogies Education toward unforeseen possibilities - Conference dedicated to all educators