Vitalizing Vocabulary: Doing Pedagogy and Language in Early Childhood Education

Thinking with language as a complex practice for educators, advocates, and researchers in early childhood education is a necessary gesture for countering the anti-intellectualism that designates early childhood education as a service providing custodial care. Vitalizing Vocabulary insists that early childhood education in Canada must unsettle our inherited demand for technocratic, instrumental, and accessible relations with language.

At the collision of research and practice, Nicole Land an...