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Ethics of Care in Practice: An Observational Study of Interactions and Power Relations between Children and Educators in Urban Ontario Early Childhood Settings
No full textThis article explores observations of care practices in interactions between early childhood educators and children in two urban early childhood settings in Ontario. Analysis of these care practices is informed by a feminist ethics of care. Findings show that the care actions of educators were more often instrumental in nature, often incomplete, and/ or interrupted. Children’s experience with and perspectives on their care were not taken into consideration. Structural factors such as staffing levels appeared to interfere significantly with the possibility of care as conceptualized from a feminist ethics of care framework. Practice and policy implications for the absence and presence of an ethics of care in Canadian early childhood settings are discussed
Making “Cuts” with a Holstein Cow in Early Childhood Education and Care: The Joys of Representation
No full textThis article explores children’s play with representations of animals, specifically the Holstein cow, as noninnocent care practices in the context of early childhood education and care environments. We use Barad’s relational ontology and Chaudhuri’s concept of zooësis to activate a temporal diffractive analysis of memory stories about children’s play with cows in ECEC read through facts from past, present, and future livestock-rearing practices. We connect the joy of playing with representations of nonhuman animals to the responsibility associated with multispecies lives, and to care as the production of flourishing
Early Childhood Pedagogy: Veronica Pacini- Ketchabaw Interviews Peter Moss
No full textThis conversation between Peter Moss and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw addresses a wide range of subjects, from Moss’s early writings on the ethical and political struggles of early childhood education to the challenging suggestions of pedagogical experimentation
Mixed Grassland/Forest Ecosystem Restoration: Invasive Removal and Trail Rehabilitation in Skyline Park, Kamloops, BC
No full textSkyline Park is a trail system in the Aberdeen residential area of Kamloops, British Columbia. It exhibits a mosaic of grassland and forest, which is experiencing reduced native vegetation species richness and cover due to infestation of spotted knapweed (Centaurea maculosa) and non-native grasses established in the park. The presence of knapwed on disturbed sites left behind from residential development around the park has hindered the establishment of native species in those areas. Skyline Park has approximately 3.2km (320m/Ha) of trails, which are fragmenting the ecosystem. The open grassland forest portion of Skyline Park is experiencing diminished biodiversity and succession towards shade tolerant species and bare ground due to the formation of thickets of interior Douglas-fir (Pseudotsugamenziesii var. glauca). To reverse the adverse effects the ecosystem is experiencing and prevent further loss of biodiversity, a prescription was prepared, and actions were taken for the restoration site. The total trail length was reduced to 2.5km (250m/Ha) by defining the trail system and closing selected trails by tilling the compacted soil with a rake and reseeding with a native grass “Stump mix” of Bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata), Annual Ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum), Rough fescue (Festuca scabrella), Rocky mountain fescue (Festuca saximontana) and Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). A combination of manual removal by pulling, cutting, bagging and disposal in the land fill of spotted knapweed (Centaurea maculosa) and the application of root feeding biological control agent, Cyphocleonus achates, was used to reduce the density of spotted knapweed (Centaurea maculosa) in Skyline Park. Informational signage will be placed at the entrances to the park to educate park users on how they can prevent the spread of spotted knapweed (Centaurea maculosa) and properly remove it. As a trial, plugs of native grass “Stump mix” were planted in a selected area within the manually treated patch to determine if plug planting is beneficial in the reestablishment of native grasses in comparison to natural reestablishment from surrounding area. It is recommended that thickets are treated by thinning and pruning to mimic the natural open grassland forests typical of the bunchgrass biogeoclimatic zone. Recommendations are made for the continued monitoring of biological control survival and population establishment, as well as monitoring and managing the spread and cover of spotted knapweed (Centaurea maculosa) for several years after complete removal from Skyline Park
The Missing Coke Bottle: Arahmaiani and the Neo-Colonial Shadow of Capitalist Globalization
No full textIndonesian artist activist Arahmaiani uses art to call attention to the role of capitalist globalization as an exploitative neo-colonial force in developing nations. Beginning in the 1990s, Arahmaiani employed a Coca-Cola bottle in many of her installations and performances as a symbol of the commodification and Americanization of lifestyles and identities occurring in Indigenous and non-western cultures. Arahmaiani’s work connects patriarchy, class exploitation, and environmental destruction to global political and economic structures in ways not typical of western liberal human rights discourses. In contrast, liberal constructions of human rights tend to focus ideologically on local, non-western institutions and practices as barriers to human rights. This gives rise to significant contradictions that complicate such conceptions of human rights and their proposed solutions, as will be demonstrated with a key work from feminist scholar Lucinda Peach. Arahmaiani’s work thus challenges western liberal human rights discourse; it urges academics and activists to redirect their myopic gaze away from the cultural idiosyncrasies of non-western nations towards the global capitalist structures that support inequality and oppression across the globe.
 
