Thursday 2nd July
Co-working Spaces:
Reimagining Childcare
Online Event
We hope that you can join us at TACTYC's next online Webinar in July, with Georgia Norton.
The Webinar is focused on the theme of Co-working Spaces: Reimagining Childcare and will take place online 6-7.30pm on Thursday 2nd July 2026.
Georgia will share insights from auditing 160 settings worldwide where parents work on-site, adjacent to the care and education of their young children. A permeable threshold transforms daily opportunities for stronger partnership between practitioners and families; children’s perception of work; supports neighbourhood service hubs; and improves equity and workforce development.
Georgia reported on the co-location of early years care and education with co-working spaces for parents, a solution accelerated by disruption to work and care during the pandemic, for a think tank. Articles, presenting case studies and developing a peer network followed as she advocates for this dynamic—if still niche—sector. Join her as she shares her experiences.
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Thursday 14th May
Anthropocene: Playful Encounters with Nature. Outdoor Play Pedagogy for 2-4 Year Olds
Online Event
TACTYC are delighted to present our May Webinar: ‘Anthropocene: Playful Encounters with Nature. Outdoor Play Pedagogy for 2-4 Year Olds,
with Lisa Goddard and Dr Natalie Shaw.
This session invites educators into a co-created experimental space to explore children’s play in the Anthropocene. Collectively, using practitioner documentation, we will attempt to shift our gaze of children's play towards a common worlding perspective foregrounding more-than-human agencies in play, disrupting anthropocentric paradigms in early childhood education.
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Lisa Goddard (she/her) is a PhD Fellow in Reggio Childhood Studies at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, and holds a MEd in ECE from Boston University. Preschool educator and pedagogista, her research explores posthuman perspectives on play, child–nature relations and more-than-human entanglements in early childhood education.
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Dr. Natalie Shaw (she/her) works as an international teacher educator and course coordinator at the centre for International Teacher Education (ITE), NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. Within this work, her particular interest lies in deep ecology and posthumanist perspectives within early childhood and primary education.
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