Out and About featured in this report! education.unimelb.edu.au/mgse-industry-… #goingoutandabout2021 instagram.com/p/CQIBau2jZL_/…

Special Issue Proposal for Global Studies of Childhood

(Re)Constructing Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Chinese Childhoods: Intersectional Perspectives and Transdisciplinary Approaches

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In the midst of a pandemic... what was, what is and what could be in early childhood education and care. There is much in this piece from US colleagues Lacey Peters, Beth Blue Swadener and Marianne Bloch that resonates with experiences in England: kzoo.edu/praxis/child-c…

pigment, water, paper, brush, I and discarded others,
An ecology of interconnected parts...
Not a fixed order of parts...
Being reworked, each asserting a certain “Freedom of Choice” as ACTANTS

Don’t worry, your child’s early learning doesn’t stop just because they’re not in childcare theconversation.com/dont-worry-you… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Dr Gregory Moore explains why there’s a lot more to love about jacarandas than just their purple flowers → unimelb.me/33CgFRX 💜

Reimagining care and the relation of ethics of care for others.
Child care and COVID: Precarious communities in distanced times - Beth Blue Swadener, Lacey Peters, Dana Frantz Bentley, Xiomara Diaz, Marianne Bloch, 2020 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

In my latest blog, I argue that we need a religion for our time--and perhaps a 'god of good work.' Read it here: buff.ly/2KXvDvm

“We are all now stuck in a science fiction novel that we are writing together” - Kim Stanley Robinson.

So, a group of us decided to try to write a good one.

Over 250,000 view on day 1.

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We're excited to share with you the very first virtual #NarrmOration 2020, with Assoc Prof Michael-Shawn Fletcher speaking on the theme 'Our Country, Our Way: How Indigenous people and knowledge can save Australia’s environmental and social unravelling'.

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Children and teachers as citizens of the now leading their local communities toward living well in precarious times.

Going Out and About: Activating children as citizens of the now - Jeanne Marie Iorio, Catherine Hamm, Mara Krechevsky, 2020 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Episode #11 of the Creativity Everything Podcast is a fascinating talk with Hansel, a creative entrepreneur and filmmaker whose work is steeped in social innovation.

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I’m really excited to share my new Makey Makey & Scratch Team guide for crafting & coding your own Pixel Art Finger Paint ! This is such a cool way to tinker with #math and #geometry ! Let me know if you create this with your students!

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#MakerEd #STEAM #STEM

Artists installed seesaws at the border wall so that kids in the U.S. and Mexico could play together. It was designed by architect Ronald Rael. ⁣
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Beautiful reminder that we are connected: what happens on one side impacts the other.
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IntensifyingPlasticWorlds
How does inviting hundreds of plastic bottles into the early childhood classroom disrupt neoliberal & neocolonial everyday processes of plastic waste(ing)? #livingwithplastic
DiscardStudies #Discard2020 Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw Common Worlds
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The eels and turtle of our Milarri Garden pond are making the most out of these sunny days 🌞
📸 Captured by Visitor Engagement Officer Joanie during our daily eel feeding presentation, held daily at 1:45pm.
Learn more and book museum tickets online via: fal.cn/3bFFZ

Latest 6-min highlights video from my “Your Creative Self” class at @RyersonFCAD is about building your networks — using the cute metaphor of a nest — and includes us enthusing about @katemoross. On YouTube at youtu.be/oo1v0zecyy4

Framing the makerspace mindset with platforms for creativity illuminates the creativity & curiosity of individuals.
Making and learning together: Where the makerspace mindset meets platforms for creativity - Mary Kay Culpepper, David Gauntlett, 2020 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

SEEDS Pedagogy in kindergartens youtu.be/0fTeBRQ5HT8 via YouTube

Experimenting Communities and Changemaker Pedagogy in kindergartens - a small video about children and pre-school teachers experimenting with digital technologies. Enjoy. More at seeds-project.eu

We were so happy with the Creativity Everything #FreeSchool , which exceeded all expectations. Diverse participants, younger and older, had a great time trying different creative approaches & developing their creative identities. Here's blog post about it: davidgauntlett.com/creativity/cre…