2nd Edition

Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education

128 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

128 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

128 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This text rearticulates understandings of materials—blocks of clay, sheets of paper, brushes and paints, fabrics, and plastics—to formulate new ideas about what happens when we think with materials and apply them to early childhood development and classrooms. Through a series of ethnographic examples and engagement with existing ideas of relationality in the visual arts, feminist ethics,... Read more

Chapter 1. Thinking with Materials  Chapter 2. Paper: Movement  Chapter 3. Charcoal: Encounter  Chapter 4. Paint: Assemblage  Chapter 5. Clay: Ecologies  Chapter 6. Blocks: Time  Chapter 7. Fabrics: Choreographies  Chapter 8. Plastics: Recuperation  Chapter 9. Pedagogical and Curriculum Resonances

Biography

Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw is a Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Faculty of Education at Western University in Ontario, Canada.

Sylvia Kind teaches in the School of Education and Childhood Studies at Capilano University, where she is also atelierista at the Children’s Centre.

Laurie L. M. Kocher is a retired faculty member in the School of Education and Childhood Studies at Capilano University.