Lingering with food: Attending to waste temporalities in early childhood

This article responds pedagogically to today’s interconnected temporal and waste crises. Theoretically, the article focuses on lingering as a practice that disrupts both modern notions of time and humans’ relations to waste temporality. Suggesting that modernist temporal frameworks separate humans from the world (including from waste), the article argues for the importance of creating early childhood pedagogies that attend to how waste endures across time. Narrating an inquiry in an early childhood education centre in Canada, the article shows how young children experiment with food waste by lingering with waste temporalities.