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From Teaching to Thinking to Situating Practice
No full textBook Review: From Teaching to Thinking: A Pedagogy for Reimagining Our Work
Ann Pelo & Margie CarterLincoln, NE: Exchange Press, 2018 402 pp.ISBN: 978-0-942702-03-
Cultural Intersections, Pedagogical Encounters, and Ethical Disruptions
No full textHow do we counter colonized schooling narratives in places where Indigenous identities and cultural ways of knowing have beensilenced? Based on encounters with children, the authors inquire into how cultural intersections can become pedagogical with the potential to disrupt colonizing narratives and explore Indigenous ways of knowing. They discuss inquiry’s emancipatory potential: granting space to listen, explore difference, think differently, and challenge the dominant colonizing discourses about Indigenous and Black children in early childhood settings
Being-Country in Urban Places: Naming the World Through Australian Aboriginal Pedagogies
No full textThis paper explores the pedagogies of a Murrawarri/Dharug co-researcher enacted during three activities: becoming animal; welcome dance; and message sticks. We think-with Trist and consider the possibilities of being-Country in urban places. The research draws on data collected as part of Naming the World, an international project informed by posthuman and new materialist theorizing and Indigenous understandings of humans as fully intertwined with the world. We grapple with the intersection of posthuman and new materialist perspectives alongside Indigenous onto-epistemologies in early childhood education settings
Planting Seeds: Fostering Preschool Children’s Interactions with Nature and Enhancing Intergenerational Relationships in a Campus Community Garden
No full textSince 2015, children aged 3–6 years attending a childcare centre on a university campus in western Canada have been part of an intergenerational community gardening initiative called Planting Seeds. This article provides an overview of the project to date and explores the positive outcomes for children who took part, namely, the fostering of intergenerational relationships, an increased understanding of where food comes from, and an enhanced knowledge of planting, nurturing, growing, and consuming plants, including food (herbs, fruits, and vegetables)
Some Consideration on the Aesthetics of the Geopolitical Wall
No full textThe wall object becomes the subject of the border. The artistic interpretation enlightens us about its evolution but also of the danger of a flattening of the perception. The walled solution of a boundary reveals only the tip of the iceberg of a complex geopolitical articulation. The danger of a fantasized hyperreality, became sensationalist, it can be captured by contemporary artists and inform us of the state of the so-called globalized world
A thorough and accessible method for eelgrass restoration site selection
No full textRestoration of eelgrass beds is becoming a growing need as human activities result in significant impacts to nearshore ecosystems. Eelgrass provides a wide variety of ecosystem services, including food, shelter and refugia for invertebrates and fish, feeding habitat for birds, nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration and carbon storage. It provides surface area for epiphytic algae that serve as the base of the food web for salmon and forage fish, stabilize shorelines and buffer wave energy. They also serve as excellent areas for science and education (Orth et al. 1984, Thompson 1994, Bostrom and Bonsdorff 2000, Duarte 2000, Molnar 2015). The rates at which eelgrass beds capture and store carbon can be up to 90 times that of forests (Campbell 2010) and continue for up to 40 years following restoration (Thom et al 2012). From an economic perspective, eelgrass meadows around the Lower Mainland provide $80,929 in ecosystem services per hectare per year (Molnar et al. 2012). Natural limiting factors for eelgrass growth include temperature (0° to 30°C but ideally 10° - 20° C; Phillips 1984), light availability, depth, substrate (usually mud or sand), wave action (relatively low) and salinity (20 - 32 ppt in the Salish Sea; Durance 2002). Human impacts on eelgrass include dredging and filling (Levings and Thom 1994); turbidity, smothering and anoxia from woody debris generated by forestry activities (Phillips 1984, BC/Washington Marine Science Panel 1994); pollution (BC /Washington Science Panel 1994, Beak Consultants 1975, Lyngby and Brix 1989); shading, damage and reduced circulation due to overwater structures such as docks (DFO et al. 2003); damage from boating and mooring (pers. obs.) and spread of invasive species such as Spartina sp. and the European green crab (Carcinus maenas). Coastal development pressures are likely to increase impacts on eelgrass as the climate changes, due to coastal squeeze during landward movement (Nicholls et al. 2007) and increased erosion and scouring associated with amplified wave impacts on hardened shorelines.There is growing recognition that restoring eelgrass beds can improve habitat connectivity and resiliency, and contribute to mitigating climate change effects. With competing priorities restricting government budgets for eelgrass restoration, however, communities and non-profit organizations are playing a greater role in eelgrass restoration. It is important to identify how such efforts can be supported to maximize their success
Stabilizing the Purple Sanicle (Sanicula bipinnatifida) sub-population and increasing density of native plants in a highly altered Garry Oak ecosystem remnant in Rithet\u27s Bog Conservation Area in Saanich, BC
No full textThis project deals with the reduction of non-native plants, and introduction of natives, as well as the promotion of purple sanicle growth in a small area of Rithet\u27s Bog located below the development on Emily Carr Drive on the south-east side. Some work has previously been performed in this area including a 2007 survey by James Miskelly (Miskelly, 2007). A small section of wooden fencing was installed along the path where the purple sanicle is found. This project builds on these previous works, including recommendation to reduce non-native grass competition by Miskelly 2007 in order to improve the native community of this Garry oak remnant.This project has four goals:1- Stabilize purple sanicle population, establish possibility for growth and persistence intofuture including climate change by establishing population at plateau on top of slope2- Utilize both seed and seedlings (plugs) of purple sanicle to collect information on growth,allow collection of differences in growth in the future through monitoring of the site3- Establish and increase population of native species that can persist into the future in theface of climate change4- Increase the density of native plants on site including grasses, herbs, and forbs
Grosbeak Creek: Use of Bioengineering Techniques in the Restoration of an Agricultural Ditch at 1020 Beckwith Avenue, Saanich, B.C.
No full textA functioning riparian zone surrounding an ephemeral stream is the result of transforming thirty-five meters of an agricultural drainage ditch using bioengineering techniques. The owners of the property where Grosbeak Creek is located are interested in the beautification and recreation potential a treed corridor will bring. Increasing biodiversity richness is also important. Characteristics of riparian habitats are more abundant in biodiversity than adjacent ecosystems, these characteristics create a matchless environment that is multifaceted and irreplaceable, delivering distinct utilities not found in other ecosystems. Plants that have the ability to tolerate their roots being submerged during the wet season are foundational to riparian communities. Their roots retain soils; branches provide shade cooling water temperatures for fish. These zones are nurseries for animals whose lifecycle include an aquatic phase.In winter 2016 the agricultural ditch at 1020 Beckwith Avenue was excavated to have bends and curves in order to dissipate flashy storm water events. The banks were widened to decrease the pitch making it more accessible. Logs, boulders and coarse woody debris (CWD) were added to protect the banks from erosion. The site was staked with Sitka Willow (Salix sithensis), Pacific Willow (Salix lucida ssp. lasiandra), Hooker’s Willow (Salix hookeriana), Red Oiser Dogwood (Cornus stolonifera) and Cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) because the genus Salix is known for the ability to quickly root from cuttings. A covering of wood chips was spread over the site to reduce weeds from germinating, keep moisture in the ground and to provide habitat for mycorrhizal spores to invade building filament structure supporting the entire ecosystem community. Restoring ecological function by building riparian woodland will benefit biodiversity