Early Childhood

Education & Ontological Violence “Ontological violence refers to the practices, such as curriculum and pedagogy, that only offer one version of the truth” (Montpetit, 2018)             When academics interpret the process of children’s learning and development into contributing members of society as ontological violence is extremely troublesome. The process where students learn would be considered ontological violence, however, this is the way humans learn. We learn from our experiences. Nevertheless, to consider it ‘violence’ desensitizes the word, makes it less impactful and loses its true meaning.   Even when, we, as students in teacher’s college, are fighting with facts and opinions about particular topics. This type of conflict is how humans learn to grow and when students are not taught how to differentiate between facts and fabrications, students are not equipped with critical thinking ski...