BA., M.Ed., PhD student
Instructor, Convener, ECCE
Early Childhood Care & Education
Faculty of Education
Health & Human Development
School of Education & Childhood Studies
604.983.7530 ext. 7530
Fulmer Family Centre for Childhood Studies, room FL 203
aargent@capilanou.ca
Education
PhD student, Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia
M.Ed., Early Childhood Education, University of British Columbia
B.A., Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria
Diploma, Early Childhood Education, Inclusive practice and Infant & Toddler
Bio
I am an instructor in the Early Childhood Education program at Capilano University, where I also work as the pedagogist at the Capilano University Children’s Centre, as well at the future Fulmer Family Children’s Centre.
I am committed to co-creating a culture of collectivity that is situated within and responsive to our West Coast surroundings.
My work invites alternative imaginaries of children, educators, and the relationships between them. I am nourished by pedagogical projects that centre experimentation, artfulness and shared responsibility in the ongoing creation of collective life.
I have authored and co-authored several journal articles and book chapters on curriculum-making, pedagogical mentorship and the role of practicum in early childhood education contexts.
My teaching interests are grounded in a pedagogical orientation that centers ethical responsiveness and the co-creation of collective life. I engage with food pedagogies, critical place-based pedagogy, curriculum-making, and pedagogical documentation not as discrete domains, but as interwoven practices that offer textured, situated ways of thinking with early childhood education.
Early childhood education teacher education
Practicum pedagogy
Pedagogical documentation and curriculum making
Refereed Journal publications:
Morrow, A., & Argent, A. (2021). The aesthetics of walking-with. Journal of Childhoods and Pedagogies, (1). Retrieved from https://journals.sfu.ca/jcp/index.php/jcp/article/view/123
Argent, A., Vintimilla, C.D., Lee, C., Wapenaar, K., (2017). A dialogue about Place and living pedagogies: Trees, ferns, blood, children, educators, and woodcutters. Journal of childhoods and Pedagogies, 1(2), 1-20.
Argent, A. (2017). Thinking With Contemporary Art: Re-Envisioning Material Movements in Early Childhood Spaces. Journal of Childhood Studies, 41(4), 60-67.
Argent, A. (2014). Dogwood Room Entanglements. International Journal of Child, Youth & Family studies, 5(4.2), 847-853.
Refereed Book Chapters:
Berger, I. & Argent, A. (2020). Life as a Pedagogical Concept. In W. Kohan & B. Weber (Eds). On childhood, thinking and time: Educating responsibly. Lexington books.
Kind, S. & Argent, A. (2019). Fabricating: Fabric fluidities and studio encounters. In D. Hodgins (Eds). Feminist Post-qualitative Research for 21st
Century Childhoods, Bloomsbury, London.
Kind, S. & Argent, A. (2017). Using video in pedagogical documentation: Interpretive and poetic possibilities. In A., Fleet, C. Patterson, & J. Robertson (Eds). Pedagogies for children’s
perspectives. New York. Routledge.
Argent, A., K, Pickford., & A., Morrow. (2025). Moving beyond the recycling of mechanistic
practices in teacher education: 21st-century lab schools as sites of transformative practice. In M. Odell. (Eds) The How and Why of Laboratory Schools: Innovations and Success Stories in
Teacher Preparation and Student Learning. Myers Education Press.
Forthcoming Refereed Book Chapters:
Kind, S., Argent, A. (forthcoming). The Hospitalities and Generosities of Young Children’s Drawings . In C. Thompson & H. Kaplan. (Eds). Post developmental Approaches to Challenging Myths and Misconception in Early Childhood Art. Bloomsbury.
Award recipient for SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
University of British Columbia President's Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award