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    Reimagining Climate Relations with Feminist Earth-Based Spirituality through Common Worlds Ethnography with Young Children

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    Children are set to inherit a socially and ecologically damaged world. This thesis responds to this urgent concern by reimagining pedagogical and curriculum practices with educators and young children. Derived from pedagogical research at a childcare centre in London, Ontario, this thesis proposes engagement with common worlds frameworks and feminist earth-based spirituality as possible interventions to the dominant discourses of our times: capitalism, neoliberalism, settler colonialism, and anthropocentrism. A collection of scholarly book chapters and journal articles, this work advocates for situated and responsive pedagogical engagements that refute singular onto-epistemologies and speculate hopeful possibilities for more livable futures. In each chapter I engage with postqualitative research methodologies, such as common worlds ethnography, to experiment with what might be possible when pedagogical and curricular practices create space for multiple and varied conceptualizations of truth

    Mobilizing citational practices as feminist curriculum-making in early childhood education

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    This article provides three propositions for thinking and doing citational practices as more than only technical, aggregating, or evidence to bolster a particular perspective in early childhood education. Collectively, we work to complexify our understanding of enacting citational practices in early childhood education and offer provocations for how we might build novel, accountable, pedagogical citational relations as we read and think together with early childhood educators. After offering speculative propositions for thinking citational practices otherwise, we turn to one example of a moment from practice and imagine how we might mobilize citational practices while thinking with this event. We argue for citational practices as a method of feminist curriculum-making; we offer an invitation to activate citational practices as a one engagement with feminist scholars and scholarship, and feminist methods of engaging in thoughtful, locally relevant dialogue that advances and answers for the consequences of the citational practices decisions we make
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