Less Distant Horizons

Trailblazing first-generation York students share their experiences with equity, community and their peers in a new book

Entangled: Using education to teach interconnectedness in a fragmented world

Cristina Delgado Vintimilla is an assistant professor in early childhood education at York University. But you could just as easily call her a teaching radical. As the University’s first pedagogista – an Italian word denoting an educational leader with a pronounced pedagogical vision – Vintimilla dismantles the human-centric approach to education that has served as the golden standard since the 19th century, if not longer.