How Imagination Can Inform Inclusion (Strategies for Inclusive ECCE)

Inclusion is a difficult concept and an even more difficult reality. Early care and learning professionals do struggle with “applying”, “adapting”, and “designing” inclusion in their classrooms. Sometimes this struggle comes from feelings of helplessness, loneliness, and lack of self-confidence. These feelings are fueled by the lack of time, lack of resources, and mostly stress.

This workshop will walk participants through a multitude of practical and theoretical aspects of inclusion that will try to shift some of the usual misconceptions and fears around this complex aspect of the ECCE everyday pedagogy. Annabella will introduce the participants to the theory of Imaginative Education and will demonstrate and invite the audience to practice, along with her, some applications of the somatic cognitive tools. These tools will help teachers see inclusion in a new way.

Be ready to move, create rhythms, build some tools, and have a lot of fun!

Presenter: Dr. Annabella Cant

SUITABLE FOR ALL EARLY LEARNING AND CHILD CARE PROFESSIONALS

Dr. Annabella is an ECCE professor at Capilano University where she received the 2019 Teaching Excellence Award. Annabella has been involved with ECCE as a practitioner since 1994. Her latest book is Unswaddling Pedagogy.