Children’s Relations with Other Species Publications

2019

Blaise, M., & Hamm, C. (2019). Shimmering: Animating multispecies relations with Wurundjeri Country. In B. D. Hodgins (Ed.), Feminist research for 21st-century childhoods: Common worlds methods (pp. 93-100). Bloombury.

Kummen, K. (2019). Crowing: Coevolving relationships. In B. D. Hodgins (Ed.), Feminist research for 21st-century childhoods: Common worlds methods (pp. 85-92). Bloomsbury.

Logan, M., Khatun, F., & Russell, J. (2019). “A posthumanist view of socioecological learners as agents of change.” In A. Cutter-Mackenzie, Lasczik, Wilks, Logan, & Turner (eds)., Touchstones for deterritorializing socioecological learning: The Anthropocene, posthhttps://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030122119umanism, and commonworlds as creative milieux. Palgrave MacMillan.

Nelson, N. (2019). Tracking: Cultivating the “arts of awareness” in early childhood. In B. D. Hodgins (Ed.), Feminist research for 21st-century childhoods: Common worlds methods (pp. 101-110). Bloomsbury.

Russell, J. & Fawcett, L. (2019). “Childhood animalness: Relationality, vulnerabilities, and conviviality.” In A. Cutter-Mackenzie, K. Malone, & E. Barratt-Hacking (eds)., International Research Handbook on ChildhoodNature. Springer Publishing.

Russell, J. (2019). “Attending to nonhuman animals in pedagogical relationships and encounters.” In T. Lloro-Bidart & V. Barnsbarch (eds.), Animals in Environmental Education: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Curriculum and Pedagogy. Palgrave MacMillan.       

Taylor, A. (2019). Rabbiting: Troubling the legacies of invasion. In B. D. Hodgins (Ed.), Feminist research for 21st-century childhoods: Common worlds methods (pp. 111-120). Bloomsbury.

Taylor, A., & Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (2019). The common worlds of children and animals: Relational ethics for entangled lives. New York: Routledge.

2018

Boileau, E., & Russell, C. (in press). Insect and human flourishing in early childhood education: Learning and crawling together. In A. Cutter-Mackenzie, K. Malone, & E. Barratt Hacking (Eds.), International handbook on childhoodnature: Assemblages of childhood and nature. New York, NY: Springer.

Born, P. (2018). Regarding animals: A perspective on the importance of animals in early childhood environmental education. International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education. 5(2). pp. 46-57.

Tammi T., Rautio P., Leinonen RM., Hohti R. (2018) Unearthing Withling(s): Children, Tweezers, and Worms and the Emergence of Joy and Suffering in a Kindergarten Yard. In: Cutter-Mackenzie A., Malone K., Barratt Hacking E. (eds) Research Handbook on Childhoodnature. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham.

Taylor, A. & Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (in press) Children and Animals: Common World Ethics for Entangled Lives, London and New York: Routledge.

2017

Lloro-Bidart, T. & Russell, C. (2017). Learning science in aquariums and on whalewatching boats: The hidden curriculum of the deployment of other animals. In M. P. Mueller, D. J. Tippins, & A. J. Stewart (Eds.), Animals and science education: Ethics, curriculum and pedagogy (pp. 41-50). New York, NY: Springer.

Nxumalo, F. & Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (in press). “Staying with the trouble” in child-insect-educator common worlds. Environmental Education Research.

Rautio, P., Hohti, R., Leinonen, R. M., & Tammi, T. (2017). Reconfiguring urban environmental education with ‘shitgull’ and a ‘shop’. Environmental Education Research, 23(10), 1379-1390.

Russell, J. (2017). ““Everything has to die one day:” children’s explorations of the meanings of death in human-animal-nature relationships.” Environmental Education Research, 23(1), 75-90.

Taylor, A. & Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (2017) ‘Kids, roos, and raccoons: Awkward encounters and mixed affects’, Children’s Geographies, 15 (2): 131-145.

2016

Lloro-Bidart, T. (2016). A feminist posthumanist political ecology of education for theorizing human-animal relations/relationships. Environmental Education Research. Published online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2015.1135419.

Taylor, A. (2016) ‘Child-animal Relations’. In M. A. Peters (Ed.) Encyclopaedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, Amsterdam: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_265-1

2015

Atkinson, K. (2015). Wasps-bees-mushrooms-children. Canadian Children, 40(2), 67-79.

Blaise, M. (2015). Fabricated childhoods: Uncanny encounters with the more-than-human. Special Issue: Monstrous Childhoods, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Bone, J. & Blaise, M. (2015). An uneasy assemblage: prisoners, animals, and asylum seeking children. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Education, 16 (1) 18-31. DOI 10.1177/1463949114566754

Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., & Nxumalo, F. (2015). Unruly Raccoons and Troubled Educators: Nature/Culture Divides in a Childcare Centre.  Environmental Humanities, 7, 151-168.

Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. & Taylor, A. (2015) ‘Unsettling pedagogies through common world encounters: Grappling with (post)colonial legacies in Canadian forests and Australian bushlands’ in V. Pacini-Ketchabaw & A. Taylor (Eds.) Unsettling the Colonialist Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education, (pp.63-91), New York: Routledge.

Taylor, A., & Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (2015). Learning with children, ants, and worms in the Anthropocene: Towards a common world pedagogy of multispecies vulnerability. Pedagogy, Culture and Society.

2014

Lloro-Bidart, T. (2014). They call them ‘good-luck polka dots’: Disciplining bodies, bird biopower, and human-animal relationships at the Aquarium of the Pacific. Journal of Political Ecology, 21, 389-407.

Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., di Tomasso, L., & Nxumalo, F. (2014). Bear-child stories in late liberal colonialist spaces of childhood. Canadian Children, 38(3), 26-55.

Taylor, A. (2014) ‘Situated and Entangled Childhoods: Imagining and Materializing Children’s Common World Relations’ in M. Block, E. Blue Swadner & G. Canella (Eds). Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education: Critical Questions, New Imaginaries and Social Activism, New York, Peter Lang, pp.121-130.

Taylor, A. & Blaise, M. (2014) ‘Queer worlding childhood’, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 35 (3), pp. 377-392.

Taylor, A. (2014) ‘Settler children, kangaroos and the cultural politics of Australian national belonging’, Global Studies of Childhood, 4 (3), pp. 169-182. 

2013

Taylor, A. (2013) ‘Caterpillar Childhoods. Engaging with the otherwise worlds of Central Australian Aboriginal children’, Global Studies of Childhood, 3, (4), pp.366-379.

Taylor, A., Blaise, M. & Giugni, M. (2013) ‘Haraway’s “bag lady story-telling”: Relocating childhood and learning within a ‘post-human landscape’. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 34 (1), pp. 48-62. 

2012

Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (2012). Postcolonial entanglements: Unruling stories. Child & Youth Services, 33, 313-316.

Taylor, A., Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. & Blaise, M. (Eds.) (2012) ‘Children’s Relations with the More-than-Human World’, Special Issue, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 13 (2). 

1999

Bell, A.C. & Russell, C.L. (1999). Life ties: Disrupting anthropocentrism in language arts education. In J. Robertson (Ed.), Teaching for a tolerant world: Grades K-6. Essays and resources (pp. 68-89). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

1998

Bell, A.C., Russell, C.L., & Plotkin, R. (1998). Environmental learning and the study of extinction. Journal of Environmental Education, 29(2), 4-10.

Keynote Lectures

KINSHIP AND WITNESS IN THIS TIME OF LOSS

Deborah Bird Rose,
September 2014,
University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

Learning How to Inherit in Colonized and Ecologically Challenged Lifeworlds Interdisciplinary Symposium

UNRULY RACOONS IN AN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTRE

Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw

July 2015

Aukland University, New Zealand

Early Childhood Seminar Series

Following and Narrating Children’s Common World Relations

Affrica Taylor

April 2019

Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Early Childhood Education: looking back moving forward