Potentia: Activating Change in Early Childhood Education is a student publication emerging from a commitment to contributing to broad pedagogical projects and leadership in early childhood education (ECE).  As an editorial collective, we invite students, educators, academics and scholars to engage with us in a shared desire to make alternative narratives in ECE visible through our open-access publication.

The title of this Journal, Potentia, is inspired by feminist scholar Rosi Braidotti’s (2010) paper, Putting the ‘Active’ Back in Activism.  Potentia can be understood metaphorically as a containment of energy and vitality that can be enacted in ways that invite hope and an affirmation for living well today and into the future. 

This journal aims to activate creativity, innovation, experimentation and invention as a way to nurture an alternate identity/image of childhood, the early childhood educator, and early childhood education. This idea gestures towards the notion that education must respond to the times in which we are living, therefore we are committed to grappling with our inheritences in the here and now of worldly conditions and the everyday moments of children’s lives. 

Reference

Braidotti, R. (2010). On putting the active back into activism. New Formations, 68(68), 42-57. https://doi.org/10.3898/newf.68.03.2009