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Restoring Pedagogical Vitality: Restitching Documentation, Pedagogy, and Progettazione
No full textPedagogical documentation has undoubtedly inspired novel and ethically responsive practices in early childhood education. However, it has also contributed to legitimizing logics that have lost their experimental vitality. This article addresses this paradox through two movements. First, the authors create a “conceptual stitch” by which to reconnect documentation, relationally and conceptually, with pedagogy and progettazione. Second, they propose four ideas for rethinking documentation through this conceptual stitch. In making these moves, the authors seek to restore documentation’s relational integrity and open space for education’s pedagogical possibilities beyond the obscure and the normative.
An earlier version of this article incorrectly cited \u27Giamminuti, S. (2009). Beauty and the beast: Art and aesthetics in early childhood. Pademelon Press’. This has been corrected as of December 4, 2025’. 
Transcending Written Constraints: Attending to Vitality Through Photography in Pedagogical Documentation
No full textThis paper explores the dissonance between intention and implementation in the practice of pedagogical documentation, where early childhood educators display written, polished, and concluded learning events to meet expectations of completion rather than inquiry. It explores how photography and multimodal approaches can reconceptualize pedagogical documentation as a processual practice that attends to what is not yet formed in learning experiences rather than rushing to categories, interpretation, and conclusion. Pedagogical documentation’s meaning making emerges in the act of encounter. When embraced through multimodalities such as visual, performative, oral, and embodied languages, it becomes a generative force rather than a static representation. Through the weaving of photos into this paper, photography is examined as an act of relational mutuality rather than a practice that tends to isolate learning events from their web of relations and then reflect on them disconnected from the very relationships that give them meaning. In this way, the author argues that pedagogical documentation becomes an ethical form of attention that resists reductionist approaches when attending to learning still in nascent form. This paper grapples with conventional pedagogical documentation practices that privilege written narratives and photographs as extractions—as if learning could be captured and held still—and opens toward a relational, emergent approach that keeps pedagogical moments alive and living
THE WORK OF ART + DOCUMENTATION AS MATERIAL + ART AS EVENT
No full textWith children aged 2–5, we explored concepts around the ephemeral, temporal, and intangible aspects of artistic encounters and what these things do to us during an inquiry project. We entered into this with curiosity about the ways in which the unplanned and unknown aspects of an artistic encounter might push inquiry forward in unexpected ways that always require some sort of response. Situated the research within a posthumanist perspective, we explored some of the ways art as an event makes possible the ways that art and curriculum can and should be considered co-constructors of inquiry and sense making. A significant part of the project worked to disrupt conventions around documentation or pedagogical narration and to push the researcher (as well as the children and educators) to think of how we might incorporate documentation as a living, moving, active part of the process during artistic encounters and/or inquiry
Reflections on Organizing Ottawa’s Vigil for Atlanta Shooting Victims in 2021
No full textIn this article, we share our experiences involved in organizing a vigil for the Atlanta shooting victims in March 2021. We were part of a small voluntary community group that came together and took the name of Asian Canadian Community Group based on our shared desire to take actions against anti-Asian racism and misogyny, especially after witnessing the targeted tragic death of Asian women in Atlanta, the United States, in 2021. The Asian Canadian Community Group is a mix of people, mostly women, who are first- or second-generation Asian immigrants and Canadians. While all members have had extensive engagement with diverse community demographic groups, we have very uneven experiences with grassroots organizing against racism and misogyny, with some being totally new to such grassroots activism and others being veterans bringing to the group rich experiences and deep understanding. Together, we shared a goal to have a collective voice heard and to increase understanding among members from diverse backgrounds on the issue of anti-Asian racism and misogyny
Digitization in Higher Educational Institutions as a Catalyst for Cross-border Cooperation
No full textThis article explores the concept of "digitization" and the influence of information technologies on the provision of educational services and the activities of universities in Ukraine and the EU. We provide an analysis of plans for the digitalization of education in the EU and review the advantages and disadvantages of the introduction of remote (online) education, as well as the ways in which the digitalization processes taking place in education in the EU countries and Ukraine affect cross-border cooperation among higher educational institutions. We offer some proposals for the development of digitalization of cross-border cooperation.
Key words: digitization, higher education institutions, academic mobility, contract, cross-border cooperation. 
From Commuting to Connectivity? Cross-Border Telework and the Evolution of Cross-Border Labour Markets
No full textThe emergence of digital communication technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic have changed the nature of work, giving rise to cross-border teleworking as an important dimension of labour mobility. This study explores the interplay between cross-border telework and traditional cross-border labour mobility, focusing on two case studies: Cascadia (US/Canada) and the Greater Region (EU). Through the analysis of desk research, legislative documents, and in-depth interviews, the study examines how national borders and telework shape the development of digital cross-border labour markets. The findings show that while cross-border telework uses digital tools to foster economic integration and reduce geographical constraints, its growth is hampered by inadequate regulatory frameworks. The article concludes that cross-border telework complements and reshapes traditional cross-border labour markets, presenting both opportunities and challenges for regional economic integration in a digitally connected world
Letter of Introduction
No full textChief Editor Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly introduces the new issue of BIG_Review
