A Special Anniversary Talk with Dr. Cristina Delgado Vintimilla
Join us in celebrating the 20th anniversary of UBC’s Early Childhood Education (ECE) Summer Institute with a special keynote talk by Dr. Cristina Delgado Vintimilla.
Restoring Pedagogical Vitality in Early Childhood Education: Re-Stitching Documentation
This commemorative event reflects on Dr. Delgado Vintimilla’s participation in the inaugural 2005 Summer Institute, In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia, with Dr. Gunilla Dahlberg. Dr. Delgado Vintimilla reflects on the enduring tensions in/of early childhood education by re-considering the pedagogical practice of documentation. Through tracing insights from her own research, Dr. Delgado Vintimilla considers how documentation, which was a focus of study in Dr. Dahlberg’s course, often becomes caught between obscurity and normative sedimentation, risking detachment from its relational ties to pedagogy and progettazione. With the intention of opening a conversation, this talk proposes a conceptual re-stitching of these connections. This minor gesture seeks to restore documentation’s relational integrity and to open space for education’s pedagogical possibilities beyond the obscure and the normative.
Date: July 4, 2025
Time: 10:00 am to 11:30 am PST
Location: Online or In-Person (Ponderosa 2012)
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About the Speaker
Dr. Cristina Delgado Vinitmilla is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University and a fellow researcher at York University Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean. Her research is deeply informed by her background as a pedagogista within the Italian tradition. Her area of research is pedagogy as living knowledge and as that which thinks and troubles education as a normative project. Currently, her research focus is on creating pedagogical inquiries and pedagogies that address the complexities of educational contexts (formal and informal) in the Global North and South. As a pedagogista, Cristina is particularly interested in the intersection between pedagogy and the arts as a generative intersection for imagining alternative onto-epistemologies.
Hosted by the Early Childhood Education Program and the Centre for Early Childhood Education and Research (CECER)