Critical everydays: A narrative inquiry into pedagogies in the silence

Where does the voice of the early childhood educator live in conversations of critical pedagogy? How might the critical everyday movements and choices that teachers make be examined to explore their embedded layers of pedagogical intention? How might the voices emerge from the rich silence of our everyday lives and ordinary moments in the classroom? Through autoethnography, this narrative inquiry explores the everyday moments of one PreKindergarten teacher, and the layers of critical pedagogy that inform her practice. Framed within the work of Freire, Shor, and Grumet, I examine the intentionalities of these moments, the worlds that they silently hold, and the complexities of the daily movements of the early childhood educator. Through narrative inquiry, openings, questions, possibilities, and liberations emerge.