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CBC New Ontario Morning · August 20, 2024
Ontario Morning with Ramraajh Sharvendiran
Back to school season is approaching, and alternative education options are on the rise. Sarah Smithias is launching Kawartha Farm School, a new private school in Kawartha Lakes this fall. She joins Host Allison Deveraux to discuss her innovative approach to education.

GovInsider · July 26, 2022
Teaching young people about the climate crisis means rethinking education
Climate education initiatives around the world are challenging the role of education. What can policymakers learn from them?..

The Conversation · May 3, 2022
Weaving is helping strengthen ancestral knowledge among women and children in Ingapirca, Ecuador
In the remote Andean community of El Cisne in Ingapirca, Ecuador, one of the first things you’ll notice is children’s laughter. In a courtyard, women gather with their children to trace ancestral knowledge and memories — and they do this using wool…

Mena FN · April 25, 2022
How Early Childhood Education is Responding to Climate Change
To the untrained eye, the small community garden on Coast and Straits Salish territory — on what passersby commonly know as the University of Victoria campus — might look unruly. Bursting with dandelions, lamb's ear and grasses, it's difficult to tell where the garden starts and where it ends…

CTV News · March 28, 2022
Advocates happy with child-care deal, still seeking increased pay for ECE workers
Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, an expert in early childhood education said she hopes, “Ontario takes into consideration the different circumstances of each family,” adding, “I hope it continues to provide some support to families that actually need childcare the most”…

Sentient Media · February 25, 2022
Dairy in the Americas: How Colonialism Left Its Mark on the Continent
The Americas have a long, strange history with milk. While the domestication of animals was a widespread practice in several pre-Columbian cultures, the introduction of milk to the diet on the continent began only in the 16th century as part of the process of territorial occupation and colonial domination…

UNESCO · May 18, 2021
Roundtable discussion on the Futures of Sustainability and the Futures of Education
Our planet and its inhabitants are under increasing pressure: Human-induced climate change, limited and recklessly exploited resources, rising temperatures and sea levels, pollution and shrinking biodiversity are just a few of the issues governments and populations face around the…

OMNY FM · April 28, 2021
Western University early childhood education expert discusses Canada's potential national childcare plan
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has stressed the importance of childcare and early education, saying that the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has created a “window of political opportunity” to tackle Canada’s lack of a national childcare plan. Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Professor of Early Childhood Education at Western University and an early childhood education expert, joins Devon Peacock to discuss…

The Conversation · April 20, 2021
Federal budget 2021: 7 actions to ensure Canada’s ‘child-care plan’ is about education
The 2021 federal budget promises new investments of up to $30 billion over five years and $8.3 billion per year after that to create a Canada-wide early learning and child-care plan. Funds committed by Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland could create a made-in-Canada early childhood education system comparable to those offered by non-English speaking G7 countries. The federal government says it will work with provincial, territorial and Indigenous partners. As Canadian researchers with more than two decades of teaching and researching early childhood education, we believe it is critical for people in Canada to know and understand what is possible in early childhood education beyond the provision of safe and affordable care for children while adults work….

CBC News · April 19, 2021
CBC Toronto News
Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw discusses federal child-care plan...

The Gazette · Oct 8, 2019
Western professor receives funding to train early child educators
A research project involving a Western professor was recently infused with $2 million to support its focus on early childhood education. The investment came from the British Columbia Ministry of Children and Family Development. The funding will be funnelled towards a new government-backed group of early childhood educators, featuring research from Western University and Capilano University, a university in Vancouver…

CBC News · Mar 23, 2018
Western Education to lead provincial early learning and child care centres
Western University's Faculty of Education announced a major initiative Friday after being chosen to lead the Provincial Centre of Excellence for Early Years and Child Care. “This is a fantastic and well-deserved recognition for not only the excellence of research and training opportunities within the faculty of education, but a testament to the vision which leaders have for the path forward," said Juan Luis Suárez, associate vice-president of research at Western, who made the announcement…

EurekAlert AAAS ·  Dec 5, 2016
$434,000 to environmental humanities
The Seed Box, Sweden's largest research programme in the environmental humanities, is now allocating grants to researchers, writers and artists around the world. The projects investigate urgent environmental problems and present new, often artistic methods and pathways forward, aimed at exploring our relationship with the environment…