Exposures – The Pedagogist Network of Ontario

The work of a pedagogist is not only about engaging with the world of early childhood education and how it appears in the present. The work of the pedagogist—the ability to envision and co-create pedagogical processes—is intimately related to pedagogists’ subjective dispositions towards the world more broadly, its past and futures, and thus to how they co-compose with the world and its inhabitants. Pedagogists envision. Envisioning, in this vital work, is tied to the ability to incorporate an idea into the present without repeating the present. Envisioning, then, requires that pedagogists enrich and alter the habituated regimes of perception—the sense making patterns—that sustain, reiterate and secure the present into the future.

An exposure creates a space for “being with”—being exposed to— ideas or situations that have the potential to create alterations and “redistribute the sensible” (Ranciere), as well as its ways of participating in common/shared living. Estrangement, refiguring, altering, being called by a sensing that can’t yet be made sense of are the generative instantiations that exposures offer to pedagogists, and that in turn pedagogists offer to their milieu.

~Cristina Delgado Vintimilla

Upcoming Exposures

The Disrupting Early Childhood Lecture Series (York University) together with The Interdisciplinary Centre for Research in Curriculum (Western University) and The Pedagogist Network of Ontario invites you to join a dialogue that engages questions related to pedagogy, emergence, materialities, and corporalities in education.

Against a scenario in which educational experiences are increasingly validated through the logics of neoliberal capitalism—with its managerial, individualistic, standardized, and evidence-based orientations—this lecture series invites guest speakers to explore possible reciprocal interconnections, and their creation, as we seek to create a space for dialogue across contexts, to consider each other’s perspectives, and bring forth novel reflections on what constitutes an educational experience

Alessandro Ferrante
Milano-Bicocca University
July 11 at 12:30pm EDT

Antonio Donato
Bologna University
July 15 at 12:30pm EDT

Francesca Antonacci
Milano-Bicocca University
July 16 at 12:30pm EDT

Please click here to register in advance.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the sessions.

Please contact Dr. Cristina Delgado Vintimilla with any questions.