Dr. Alex Berry

PhD

Pronouns: She/Her

Positions

Assistant Professor

Werklund School of Education

Contact information

alexandra.berry@ucalgary.ca

Web presence

Research and pedagogical work

Research-creation exhibit: Climate Action Childhood Network

Research-creation exhibit: Plastic Childhoods

Podcast Episode: Tasting Climate Change

Phone number

Office : 403-210-2213

Location

Office : Education Tower1040

Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy Curriculum Studies, Western University, 2022

Masters Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, 2017

BA Child and Youth Care, Douglas College, 2012

Biography

My research engages with the arts and research-creation toward anti-colonial early childhood pedagogies that respond to times of ecological crises. I am interested in feminist postqualitative methodologies for experimenting with the complexities of 21st century childhoods and for creating pedagogies alongside educators that answer to social and climate injustices.

I am seeking research students who are interested in the arts/creative practice, environmental issues, and critical pedagogies for the Anthropocene.

Research

Areas of Research

critical perspectives in early childhood education, the arts, curriculum and pedagogy, environmental education

Publications

Interrupting Purity in Andean Early Childhood Education: Documenting the Impurities of a River. C.D. Vintimilla & V. Pacini-Ketchabaw . Equity and Excellence in Education . (2020)
Weaving Child-Plastic Relations with Early Childhood Educators in the Ecuadorian Andes . Australian Journal of Teacher Education. (2022)
Dis/orientating the Early Childhood Sensorium: A Palate Making Menu for Public Pedagogy. J. Pollitt, N. Nelson, B.D. Hodgins, & V. Wintoneak. Journal of Childhood Studies . (2022)