Academic title: Associate Professor
Office: T373
Email: mjcullen@mtroyal.ca
Phone: 403.440.7043
Education
PhD(c), University of Western Ontario
MA, University of Western Ontario
Maureen has a background as a Registered Early Childhood Educator (RECE) and assistant professor of Child Studies; her research is grounded in Feminist New Materialist frameworks and Common Worlds pedagogies. Her work critically engages with the dominant discourses of scientism, modernism and developmentalism in early childhood education, aiming to disrupt these paradigms by fostering more-than-human kinships and multispecies pedagogies. Maureen's dissertation explores the integration of pedagogical documentation, more-than-human kinships, and speculative storttelling in curriculum-making processes. Her research ains to cultivate inclusive and equitable learning environmentas as it offers hope for creative responses to global challenges auch as climate change and promotes mutual flourishing for all entities, human and more-than-human.
Areas of Instruction
- Play-based Learning
- Family and Community Engagement
- Practicum/Field Pedagogies
- The Profession of ELCC
Areas of Scholarship
- Common Worlds Pedagogies
- Multi-species ethnography
- Pedagogical Documentation
- Inclusive and equitable practices
- Professional Advocacy
Selected Publications
Taylor, A., Zakharova, T., & Cullen, M. (2021). Common Worldling Pedagogies: Opening Up to Learning with Worlds. Journal of Childhood Studies, 46(4), 74-88. https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs46420212425
Selected Presentations
July 2024 – European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 2024: Making and Doing Transformations. Paper Presentation: Beyond the Classroom Wastebin: Fostering More-Than-Human Kinships and Relational Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education
April 2024 – Mount Royal Faculty Association (MRFA) Retreat: Belonging, Building, and Connecting Communities. Paper Presentation: Cultivating Agency and Belonging through Student-Choice in Assessment: A Case Study from ELCC 1110
June 2022 – Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE): Being Together in/with place: Reimagining pedagogies in transformational times. Paper Presentation: World-making with food waste and vermiculture alongside children in catastrophic times
June 2022 – The IX Conference on Childhood Studies. Paper Presentation: Troubling time through the logics of decanting with fairies and pumpkins