Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Professor of Early Childhood Education at Western University, is the first presenter in the Faculty of Education’s Distinguished Speakers Series. Her lecture will take place at Brock on Thursday, Feb. 9.The Faculty of Education kicks off its 2017 Distinguished Speaker Series next week with Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Professor of Early Childhood Education at Western University.
During her presentation, Common World Childhoods: Children’s Entangled Relations with the More-than-Human, Pacini-Ketchabaw will examine the relations of children with places, materials and other species.
She will reimagine what might be possible in early childhood education during a time of ecological crisis.
The talk is particularly timely as American President Donald Trump begins taking measures to dismantle the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Pacini-Ketchabaw will draw on her current research within the Common World Childhoods Research Collective, an interdisciplinary network of researchers concerned with human relations with the more-than-human world.
She will speak to the need to unsettle the dominance of Euro-Western knowledges.
The lecture will take place on Thursday, Feb. 9, in Robert S.K. Welch Hall 202 from noon to 2 p.m.
There is no cost and all are welcome to attend.
The next speaker in the series has yet to be announced.
