Dr. Kathleen KummenAssistant Professor | Faculty of Education & Social Work
Email: kkummen@tru.ca
Homepage
URL: https://ecpn.ca/
Research Interests
Early childhood studies
Early childhood teacher education
Common worlds childhoods and pedagogies
Decolonizing strategies in early childhood pedagogies
Education
PhD University of Victoria, Child and Youth Care
Dissertation: Making Space for Disruption in the Education of Early Childhood Educators
MEd University of Manitoba, Early Childhood Education
Thesis: The Play of Three Children: An Ethnographic Study
1981
Early Childhood Education Professional Development Program
BA University of Manitoba, Psychology
Research and Funded Grants
2017 to 2021
Rethinking the Rs Through Arts: Transforming Waste Practices in Early Childhood Education Funder: Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Insight Grant) Co- Investigator and co-site director
with Dr. Sylvia Kind at Capilano University.
2017 to 2019
Climate Action Network: Exploring Climate Change Pedagogies with Children
Funder: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Partnership Development Grant)
Co- Investigator and co-site director with Dr. Sylvia Kind at Capilano University
2018 to present
Early Childhood Pedagogy Network
Funder: BC Ministry of Education and Child Care Amount: N
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Publications
Selected Refereed Publications
Book Chapters
Kummen, K. (2019). Crowing: Coevolving relationships. In B. D. Hodgins (Ed.), Feminist research for
21st-century childhoods: Common worlds methods. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
Hodgins, B. D., & Kummen, K. (2018, November). Transformative pedagogical encounters: Leading and
learning in/as a collective movement. In S. Cheeseman & R. Walker (Eds.), Pedagogies for leading
practice. New York, NY: Routledge.
Hodgins, B. D., Thompson, D., & Kummen, K. (2017). Weavings, walks, and wonderings: Stories of the
liveliness of pedagogical narrations. In A. F. Fleet, C. Patterson, & J. Robertson (Eds.),
Pedagogical documentation in early years practice: seeing through multiple perspectives. SAGE.
Articles in Scholarly Refereed Journals
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Kummen, K., & Hodgins, B. D.
(2022). Qualitative Examination of Early Childhood Educators Participation in Professional Learning:
Investigating Social Constructionist Understandings of Quality. Journal: Early Childhood Teacher
Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10901027.2022.209932
Hodgins, B. D., Kummen, K., & Merewether, J. (2022). Speculative caring collaboratories: Mattering
research alternatives. Children's Geographies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2022.2042197
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Kummen, K. (2022). Too Academic? Too Hard to Pronounce? The Un/familiar Language
of Pedagogy. The Early Childhood Educator, 37(2), 27 to28.
Van Groll, N.& Kummen, K. (2021). Troubled Pedagogies and COVID-19: Fermenting New Relationships and
Practices in Early Childhood Care and Education. Journal of Childhood Studies. 46(3), 36 -41.
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Kummen, K., & Hodgins, B. D. (2020). Pedagogists and the early childhood
pedagogy network. The Early Childhood Educator, 35(1), 17-19.
Hodgins, B. D. & Kummen, K. (2019). Learning collectives with/in sites of practice: Beyond training
and professional development. Journal of Childhood Studies. 44(1) 111-122.
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., & Kummen, K. (2017). Shifting temporal frames in childrens common worlds in
the Anthropocene. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 17(4), 431-441.
Employment History
Professional and Research Positions
2018 -2020 Researcher with the College Practicum Programs, Centre of Excellence in Early Years (funded
by the Province of Ontario, administered through Western University)
2017 to present Adjunct Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario
2018 to 2023 Chair, School of Education and Childhood Studies, Capilano University
2017-to 2023 Convener, Centre for Childhood Studies, Capilano University
2015 to 2016 Co-lead researcher ECE Entry-to-practice Framework, Ministry of Children and Family
Development, Province of British Columbia
2013 to 2017 Coordinator, Department of Early Childhood Care and Education Capilano University
2004to 2023 Instructor, Department of Early Childhood Care and Education Capilano University
2003to 2004 Coordinator, North Shore Community Action Plan for Children (CAPC), Family Services of the
North Shore, North Vancouver, BC
1991 to 1997 Child Care Licensing Officer, North Shore Health, North Vancouver,BC
Professional Affiliations
2022 to present Early Childhood Educator of BC Board Member
2012 to 2023 Canadian Association for Young Children (provincial director)
2012 to present American Educational Research Association (member)
1993 to present Early Childhood Educator of BC (member)
2012 to present BC Aboriginal Child Care Society (member)
2012 to present Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (member)
2014 to present Common Worlds Childhood Research Collective (research member)
2016 to present Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory (founding member with Drs. Veronica
Pacini-Ketchabaw and Dr. B. Denise Hodgins)
