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Toward Common Worlds Pedagogies In Early Childhood Education: A Response To The Challenges Of The Anthropocene, Adrianne Bacelar De Castro

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In response to the realities of living with global ecological challenges and climate-related risks in the Anthropocene, I draw on the arts of slowing down, noticing, and paying attention to worldly realities in the work of early childhood education as a response to this geological time. Through an inquiry with charcoal and cardboard as part of a common worlding ethnographical project in a childcare centre in London, Ontario, I questioned what it might look like to change the child-centered/humancentric position so prevalent in early childhood education to a more inclusive perspective that includes more-than-humans. As we made this shift I …