Place-based Pedagogies Research Forum

Wednesday, 2nd October – Please  register at Eventbrite to attend our upcoming research forum, to ensure you are catered for and receive the zoom link on the day. This event will take place at QUT’s Kelvin Grove Campus, E Block, in Room E557. Refreshments will be served from 3.30pm. Event will commence promptly at 4pm. Place-based Pedagogies is a 90-minute event, open to all. It will offer valuable insights on the latest in place-based pedagogies.

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the Centre for Child & Family Studies are delighted to host Place-based Pedagogies featuring talks by Associate Professor Jeanne Iorio, Associate Professor Catherine Hamm, Associate Professor Megan Gibson, and Dr Marie White.

This research forum includes a presentation from Associate Professor Jeanne Marie Iorio & Associate Professor Catherine Hamm, titled, Response, Impact and Learning with Place. Alternative narratives are necessary to respond to the narrow perspectives of children’s learning and development that position children as deficit. Drawing from an Industry Report Defying Deficit: Children as Capable Citizens of the now (Iorio & Yelland, 2021), that is focused on rethinking the image of children, families, and communities as capable, this presentation shares an overview of the report and focuses on one of the case studies — Learning with Place© – as an example of response and impact in relation to local Place.

In April 2024, Jeanne, Catherine, Megan, and Marie were immersed in scholarly thinking as they participated in a Reggio Emilia Study Tour with U.S. Students and Professors in collaboration with Reggio Children. This experience will infuse the reflections and conversations.

An opportunity to more deeply engage with ideas generated through the presentations will be led by QUT’s Associate Professor Megan Gibson and Dr Marie White through an “In Conversation”.

		Associate Prof Jeanne Marie Iorio At the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Dr Jeanne Marie Iorio is an Associate Professor whose research, teaching, and writing is centred around disrupting and rethinking accepted educational practices in early childhood and higher education. This includes rethinking quality as meaning-making; children’s relations with Place, more-than-human and materials; pedagogical documentation; post-qualitative inquiry; and pedagogies originating from the Educational Project in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Jeanne’s research has been published in multiple journals and texts, and she currently co-edits a book series Rethinking Higher Education and Qualitative Research Journal. She currently co-leads the Out and About/Learning with Place research with Dr Catherine Hamm.
		Associate Professor Catherine Hamm Dr Catherine Hamm is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. Catherine’s teaching, post-qualitative research and writing is focused on First Nations worldviews in early childhood studies. Catherine’s work engages with critical perspectives of early childhood studies, philosophies, pedagogies and curriculum, and through the collaborative research project with Dr Jeanne Iorio, their work seeks to generate and document innovative pedagogies that support children, teachers and communities to build ongoing relationships with their local places and multispecies communities.
		Associate Professor Megan Gibson Dr Megan Gibson is an Associate Professor at QUT’s School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education. Megan’s research is focused on attracting, preparing and retaining the early childhood workforce, and she has extensive experience in teaching and leadership positions including as Director of an internationally acclaimed early childhood centre at the University of Queensland. In addition to leading national industry-university collaborative research and teaching, Megan is currently the chief investigator of a 5 year study, in collaboration with several international universities centred on exemplary childhood educators at work, funded by the Australian Research Council.
		Dr Marie White Dr Marie White is a lecturer at QUT’s School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, whose research is centred on the early childhood workforce. With a background in early childhood education and care, Marie’s experience in teaching and leadership spans more than two decades. Her doctoral research examined the experiences of leaders in early childhood education and care

 

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