Entangled Frictions With Place As Assemblage

Sherri-Lynn Yazbeck; Ildikó Danis

doi:10.18357/jcs.v40i2.15176

Entangled Frictions With Place As Assemblage

Authors

Sherri-Lynn Yazbeck University of Victoria
Ildikó Danis University of Victoria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs.v40i2.15176

Abstract

The focus of this paper is to tell stories and grapple with questions about place. We share documentation gathered during explorations in an art studio we created in an urban forest located next to our childcare centre. We work with multiple forms of knowledge about place in order to develop complex (and situated) forest pedagogies. Our stories engage with clay and the use of maps, and lend themselves to thinking of place as assemblage with more-‐than-‐human others. We conclude the paper with an examination of how our newly forming forest pedagogies creep into other stories—unfolding, changing, and creating frictions in our practice, explorations, and inquiries—just as English ivy does in our forest studio.

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Author Biographies

Sherri-Lynn Yazbeck, University of Victoria

Sherri-‐Lynn Yazbeck is an early childhood educator at the University of Victoria Child Care Services. Her academic background in psychology, philosophy, and early childhood education are combined with 14 years of practice as an early childhood educator. Inspired by ordinary moments with children, she is interested in the entangled multispecies relationships and encounters that take place in the classroom, playground, nearby forests, and gardens. She is intrigued by how these human and more-‐than-‐human assemblages create place and pedagogy in early education. She is also researching what it might mean to practice care and sustainability through these children/more-‐than-‐human relationships. Email: syazbeck@uvic.ca

Ildikó Danis, University of Victoria

Ildikó Danis is an early childhood educator at University of Victoria Child Care Services. She has a degree in early childhood education from Georgia State University and has worked in the field in Canada, the United States, and Hungary. Her interest in common worlds pedagogies spurred her curiosity about children’s relations with place. She is currently focusing on how storytelling might help to connect with other species, with the material world, and with place. Email: idanis12@uvic.ca

Published

2015-12-05

How to Cite

Yazbeck, S.-L., & Danis, I. (2015). Entangled Frictions With Place As Assemblage. Journal of Childhood Studies, 40(2), 22–31. https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs.v40i2.15176

Issue

Vol. 40 No. 2 (Spring 2015) Canadian Children

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Articles

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