The welcoming value in (re) constructing one another: (Re) documenting a post materialist Borderlands approach to inclusive early childhood identity studies

As two Remida Reggio-inspired early childhood teacher educators, we (re)consider our research embedded in longtime writings and workshops together. (Re)cycling our public/visible thinking with Remida-inspired reuse materials’ educational ecologies, we (re)write together here to find new ways of envisioning our shared identities as related to a reuse materials pedagogical journey. Our methodological approach is (re)documentation. By (re)documenting—revisiting over time/space the pedagogical narrative material—we salvage and offer ourselves new life and identity(ies). We make (re)visible a presentation shared again and again over 3 years, entitled Co-constructing Identities with Reuse Materials. Our presentation is generated within a creative reuse center situated in a social-constructivist infant-toddler and preschool program. Our recyclables include presentation slides-notes, and revised scraps of literature review repurposed from a dissertation. Our hope is to share a way to really see into our co-collaborators’ lives as (re)documentarians living IN and WITH documented experiences.