{"id":32,"date":"2019-09-17T22:13:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T22:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2025-01-06T17:44:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T17:44:46","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pedagogical Explorations began in January 2011 when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edu.uwo.ca\/faculty-profiles\/veronica-pacini-ketchabaw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/uvic.academia.edu\/DeniseHodgins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">B. Denise Hodgins<\/a> joined UVic Child Care Services\u2019 team.\u00a0 Veronica was the lead pedagogist (someone who is an educational theory specialist and pedagogical leader) and Principal research Investigator in this work from 2011-2016. Denise became lead pedagogist and Principal research Investigator in September 2016-August 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Narda_Nelson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Narda Nelson<\/a> is in her 11th year working with the CCS educational team as Lead Pedagogist and Principal Research Investigator.\u00a0 Past Pedagogists and Co-Researchers include Kirsten Ho, Vanessa Clark, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ryerson.ca\/ecs\/people\/faculty\/nicole-land\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nicole Land<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-165\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4432\/2019\/09\/CACN-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4432\/2019\/09\/CACN-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4432\/2019\/09\/CACN-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4432\/2019\/09\/CACN-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4432\/2019\/09\/CACN-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 85vw, 347px\" \/>Many UVic CCS educators, staff, and pedagogists (past and present) are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/commonworlds.net\/newsite\/members-of-the-collective\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">members<\/a> of the international <a href=\"http:\/\/commonworlds.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common World Childhoods Research Collective<\/a>. We are also part of the Canadian-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlychildhoodcollaboratory.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory<\/a> and the international\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.climateactionchildhood.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Climate Action Childhood Network<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-167\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4432\/2019\/09\/Pro-D-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4432\/2019\/09\/Pro-D-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4432\/2019\/09\/Pro-D-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4432\/2019\/09\/Pro-D-1-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 85vw, 199px\" \/>To learn more about the historical and ongoing significance of pedagogy and the role of pedagogist, follow the link to the 2019 discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/ceeycc-cepege.ca\/provincial-en\/2019\/08\/09\/silvanacalaprice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Revisiting \u2018Pedagogy and the Role of Pedagogista: A Perspective&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedagogical Explorations began in January 2011 when Dr. Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and B. Denise Hodgins joined UVic Child Care Services\u2019 team.\u00a0 Veronica was the lead pedagogist (someone who is an educational theory specialist and pedagogical leader) and Principal research Investigator in this work from 2011-2016. Denise became lead pedagogist and Principal research Investigator in September 2016-August &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/about-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4411,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2281,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/pedagogicalexplorations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}