Announcements

We have extended the deadline for abstracts for Unbroken: (Re)Claiming Stories, Relationality, and Possibility October 4, 2026.

“Stories move us.
Stories move.

Through relation.
Through power.
Through rupture.
Through continuity.
Through becoming.
Through (re)becoming” (Steinke, 2026) *

*Melissa Steinke's notion of "Unbroken" first emerged during her final year as a graduate student at the University of British Columbia. Through exploring her family's funds of knowledge (Moll et al., 1992), she was invited into and alongside storying with her father. What began as an exploration of her father’s experiences became an encounter with her own positionality and the realization that his story was also her story. These experiences later evolved into her graduate e-portfolio, Entwined, Entangled & Unbroken: Stories of an Undivided Self (Steinke, 2026), where Unbroken became a conceptual and pedagogical framework for thinking with stories, relationality, and possibility.

“Hope is not at the expense of struggle but animates a struggle” ~ Sara Ahmed, 2017 

“Either pedagogy—like all the human sciences—is remade, reconstructed and updated based on the new conditions of the times, or it loses its nature, its function, its proper capacity to correspond to the times it lives in, and above all to foresee, anticipate and prepare the days of tomorrow” ~ Malaguzzi (as cited in Cagliari et al., 2016, p. 143)  

Past Call for Papers: Transformation through Participation: Early Childhood Education Students as Change Agents