Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education

This text rearticulates understandings of materials-blocks of clay, sheets of paper, brushes and paints-to formulate new ideas about what happens when we apply them to early childhood development and classrooms. The new second edition includes new materials, such as choreographies with fabrics and the process of reparation with plastics.

Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw is a Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Faculty of Education at Western University in Ontario, Canada. Sylvia Kind teaches in the School of Education and Childhood Studies at Capilano University, where she is also atelierista at the Children's Centre. Laurie L. M. Kocher is a retired faculty member in the School of Education and Childhood Studies at Capilano University.

Chapter 1. Thinking with Materials Chapter 2. Paper: Movement Chapter 3. Charcoal: Encounter Chapter 4. Paint: Assemblage Chapter 5. Clay: Ecologies Chapter 6. Blocks: Time Chapter 7. Fabrics: Choreographies Chapter 8. Plastics: Recuperation Chapter 9. Pedagogical and Curriculum Resonances