Faculty
On this page:
- Julia Black
- Margaret Broughton
- Annabella Cant
- Sally de la Rue Browne
- Cristina Delgado
- Christianne Hayward
- Violet Jessen
- Sylvia Kind
- Kathleen Kummen
- Barbara Mathieson
- Jen Moses
- Rachel Rosen
- Tia Smith
Support Staff
Sylvia Huzek, Reception
Yvonne French, Departmental Assistant
Lisa Stalham, Divisional Assistant
Julia Black
BA (U of Western Ontario), MBA (Athabasca U), ECE Cert.
Julia has been an early childhood educator since 1994. Julia has developed early childhood programs and facilities for children 3 months to 5 years of age within the Sea to Sky Corridor. She has worked as classroom teacher, teacher mentor, capital projects coordinator in the construction of faciltiies and Executive Director operating multiple sites and programs. Julia began teaching at Capilano University in January 2009. Prior to this she has taught as a sessional instructor for the University of Victoria, School of Child and Youth Care and continues to provide workshops and training for parents, educators and business leaders in the area of early childhood development both in the Lower Mainland and the Sea to Sky corridor. In addition to her work with Capilano University, Julia is the coordinator for the Sea to Sky Putting Children First Initiative, a learning initiative that focuses on community mobilization in ECD and improving outcomes for children and families 0-6 years of age. Julia also works as a Field Consultant for the HighScope Research Foundation, training educators in the HighScope Preschool Curriculum Model in Canada and the United States. Julia’s volunteer work has included; member of the Advisory Committee for the development of Aboriginal Head Start in British Columbia, Supported Child Development Advisory Committee for the Sea to Sky Corridor and Whistler for Youth. Julia lives in Brackendale with her spouse and two sons.
Margaret Broughton
BSc. Home Economics (U of A), MSc Population and Public Health (UBC), RD (Registered Dietitian)
Margaret is a registered dietitian with an undergraduate degree in Home Economics from the University of Alberta. She has a Masters degree in Population and Public Health from the University of British Columbia. She has worked in the area of public health for nearly 20 years. One area of her areas of specialization is nutrition for infants and children. In 2005, Margaret was awarded by the Canadian Public Health Association for her thesis on food security and nutritional status in preschool aged children. Her research examined the contributions of individual and community factors to food insecurity, as well as the relationship between food insecurity and childhood overweight and nutritional status. In addition to teaching students, Margaret provides continuing education for ECCE practioners. She currently works as a Community Nutritionist with Vancouver Coastal Health.
Annabella Cant
BA (Romania), BA Pedagogy (Romania), MA (SFU), PhD Candidate (SFU)
Sally de la Rue Browne
REHO (Registered Environmental Health Officer)
Sally is a graduate of British Columbia Institute of Technology and has a Business Diploma from the University of Saskatchewan and a Train the Trainer Diploma from Vancouver Community College.
She has 26 years of experience in the environmental health field, and has developed and implemented an ALLERGY AWARE course based on the CRFA program with consistently high student approval. As a Registered Environmental Health Officer and Food Safety Consultant with her own business ENVIRO-FOOD CONSULTING, she provides training, writing and consulting services to the foodservice and hospitality industry. A Canada-wide radio program she developed called Food Safety with Sally de la Rue Browne educated consumers on safe foodhandling techniques.
Sally has attended international conferences in Sweden, Great Britain and Australia and spoken on food safety and health issues. She currently instructs FOODSAFE 1 & 2 and the HACCP program. Articles have been published in the Environmental Health Review and the International Environmental Health Journal.
As a mother of two teenagers, she has extensive experience volunteer working with hot lunch programs, children’s programs and is currently the Chair of the Parent Association at her daughter’s high school.
She is a member of the International Federation of Environmental Health and the BC Branch of the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors.
Cristina Delgado
BA & M.Ed. (University of Siena, Italy), PhD Student (UBC)
Cristina is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Cross Faculty Inquiry in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. Her area of interest are philosophy of education, teacher education, early childhood education and curriculum. Her work engages with post-structuralist theories, particularly the work of Jacques Derrida, Levinas and Jean Luc Nancy. Her academic interest is characterized by the need to create possibilities for the provocative and generative defamiliarization of the educative field in an effort to find new landscapes from which to think about education. She is also very involved and committed in developing research projects in her country, Ecuador.
Christianne Hayward
B.Ed. (U of A), M.Ed. (U of Bristol), PhD (UBC), ECE Cert.
Violet Jessen
BA (SFU), M.Ed. (ECE-U.Vic), ECE Cert.
Violet has been an early childhood educator since 1997. A member of ECEBC (Early Childhood Educators of BC) since 1996, she served as the North Shore Branch Chair and on the Provincial board as a Member-at-large, and Director of Conference for 2008 (Between Two Seas: Bridging Children and Communities) and 2009 (Leadership: Innovation & Inspiration, “Celebrating 40 Years of ECEBC”). Her volunteer work in various capacities and venues include the North Shore Early Childhood Conference “To Learn, To Wonder”, Sunshine Coast Exploration & Discovery Conference, North Shore Community Resources Society (Board of Directors), and the NSCR Mother Goose Program. In 2009, Violet was recognized as one of the top 40 Alumni of Inspiration to help celebrate Capilano University’s 40 years of educational services. Violet lives in West Vancouver with her husband and three children.
Sylvia Kind
BFA (U.Vic), MA & PhD (UBC), Montessori Cert.
Sylvia Kind is an artist and educator. She has been teaching at Capilano University since 2007. Prior to this she taught at UBC in the teacher education program, in community and gallery settings, and as a Montessori pre-school teacher. In 2006 she received a Ph.D. in Art Education and Curriculum Studies from the University of British Columbia and was awarded the Gordon and Marion Smith Award for Excellence in Art Education. Sylvia has published in journals and contributed chapters to books and is particularly interested in studio research, art as living inquiry, and the role of the atelier in early childhood. She is an exhibiting artist, working primarily in textile/fibre processes and photography and has been working closely with the Capilano University Children’s Centre as an atelierista. She also is an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria.
Selected Publications
Kind, S. (2008) Learning to listen: Traces of loss, vulnerability, and susceptibility in art/teaching. In Springgay, S., Irwin, R. L., Leggo, C., Gouzouasis, P. & Grauer, K. (Eds.). Being with A/r/tography (pp. 167-178). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
Springgay, S., Irwin R., Kind, S. (2008). Communities of A/r/tographers Engaged in Living Inquiry. In A. Cole & G. Knowles (Eds) Handbook of the arts in qualitative research (pp. 83-92). New York: Sage.
Kind, S. (2007). In open spaces. In Linda Farr Darling, Anthony Clarke, and Gaalen Erickson (Eds.) Collective improvisation in a teacher education community, (pp. 67-74). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
Kind, S., de Cosson, A., Irwin, R. L., & Grauer, K. (2007). Artist-Teacher Partnerships in Learning: The In/Between Spaces of Artist-Teacher Professional Development. Canadian Journal of Education, 30(3). Available at http://www.csse.ca/CJE/Articles/CJE30-3.html.
Kind, S. (2005). Windows to a child’s world: Perspectives on children’s art making. In K. Grauer & R. L. Irwin (Eds). StARTing with: Readings in Canadian elementary art education, 2nd ed. London, Ontario: Canadian Society of Education through Art
Kathleen Kummen
BA, Cert. Ed., M.Ed. (U of Man.), PhD Candidate (U.Vic), ECE / I/T SN Cert.
Kathleen Kummen has worked in the field of early years for over twenty-five years. She has held a variety of positions; including working as an early childhood educator, child life therapist and child care licensing officer. Kathleen is also a Ph.D. Candidate at the School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. As a graduate student, she is part of Research in Early Childhood Care, University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. As a graduate student, she is part of Research in Early Childhood Care, Education and Health (REACH), a consortium of early childhood researchers at the University of Victoria. Kathleen’s research interests focus on in exploring theory and practice in the pre-service training and ongoing professional development of early childhood educators. In her dissertation research she hopes to focus on how to support pre-service teachers in reflecting on their image of children and how that image connects to their understanding of theory and practice.
Selected Publications
Kummen, K. (2010). Is it time to put "tidy up time away": Contesting routines and transitions in early childhood spaces. In V. Pacini-Ketchabaw (Ed.), Flows, rhythms and intensities of early childhood education curriculum (pp. 98-112). New York: Peter Lang.
Kummen, K. (October, 2011). Once upon a time there was a ready child: Challenging readiness as a single story. In A. Pence & J. White (Eds.), Child and youth care: Critical perspectives on pedagogy, practice, and policy. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Kummen, K., & Thompson, D. (2010). Becoming intimate with developmental knowledge: Pedagogical explorations with collective biography. The Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 57(3), 335-354.
Barbara Mathieson
B.Ed. (SFU), M.Ed. (UBC)
Barb is passionate about many things when it comes to education, but literacy and children’s play are front and foremost. She has been a kindergarten and early primary teacher for many years, as well as having spent three years as a literacy facilitator for the North Vancouver School District. Barb has shared her passion for keeping play at the heart of young children’s lives, at early childhood conferences and to parent groups all over the province. She has co-authored the oral language development resource, Our Turn to Talk, and has worked on a number of other curriculum documents for the North Vancouver School District. Barb is a Tribes Learning Communities© trainer and firmly believes in ensuring that all children feel included, safe and listened to. Barb is presently teaching in both a primary classroom and at the university level.
Jen Moses (on Education leave)
BA & BSW (McMaster), M.Ed. (UBC), ECE Cert., Coordinator
For the past 25 years Jen has worked with children and families in a wide and diverse number of settings including daycare, the Vancouver Art Gallery and several Community Organizations. In addition, since 1989 she has taught early childhood students in a variety of post-secondary institutions. Jen is a committed advocate for children, believing in the wisdom of their voices and the importance of their presence in creating just and strong communities. Jen is committed to collaboratively creating and sustaining innovative, caring and challenging learning environments for children, students and colleagues. She recently coordinated the development of the first Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Care and Education in British Columbia.
Rachel Rosen (on Education leave)
MA (U. East London, UK), ECE Cert.
Rachel has been working with young children for over ten years and is currently a supervisor at Brentwood Nursery School, which won the 2009 Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Early Childhood Education. In addition to being an ECCE instructor with both Capilano University and Burnaby School District 41, Rachel facilitates workshops and presentations for parents and educators about inquiry-based learning, children’s participation, and learning with materials. Rachel is a passionate advocate against global injustice and has been active with community organisations including Grassroots Women (BC) and Daycare Trust (UK). Her research interests include gender and ECCE (Between a rock and a hard place, a participatory action research study examining the impact of BC childcare policy on marginalised women) and children’s rights ('We got our heads together and came up with a plan': Young children's perceptions of curriculum development in one Canadian preschool).
Tia Smith
BA & MA (Pacific Oaks College), Dip. ECE
Tia believes the health and well-being of children and families is a responsibility we share not just within communities but also globally. It is her hope that one day the world will be a peaceful place in which diversity is cherished and all people have more than the basic provisions of life. She has been instructing in the Early Childhood Department at Capilano University for the past 10 years and shares with students her passion and commitment to exploring diversity and social change within families and communities. Prior to classroom teaching with adults, Tia’s work was concentrated in early childhood programs which offered a range of care and services to very young children and families. She is particularly drawn to areas of study addressing the significance of the first three years in a young child’s life. Both her graduate and undergraduate studies focused on bi-cultural development of children and the family. This interest remains strong and is evident in her course content and professional development pursuits. Tia has always been an avid traveler drawn to adventure, but also the opportunity to connect with people and families worldwide. She recently completed a term of both personal and professional reflection and research in Ecuador. This opportunity pried openings through which she considers the relationships between children families and communities in both a local and global context.