Unlearnings With Charcoal: Threads With Common Worlding

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 8
  In Poster Session: Approaches to Learning (San Diego)

Abstract

I engage with the question: What have I unlearned as a researcher working alongside a group of infants and educators in a common worlding pedagogical inquiry with charcoal in an early childhood education classroom? Arguing that common worlds pedagogies demand unlearning, I illustrate my journey as a graduate student and researcher working alongside infants and educators and experimenting with charcoal and paper pedagogies.
Using a series of pedagogical moments, I do not offer answers but rather illustrate the ongoing formation of questions that might bring about alternative ways of doing early childhood education. Through my experimental and imperfect path towards common world pedagogies, I offer a glimpse into how early childhood education might trouble its own human-centric approach.

Author

• Adrianne Bacelar de Castro, University of Western Ontario