PUBLICATIONS, PEER REVIEWED 

Mirkovic, D., & Kamdar, K. (2025). Ghostbusters: Rupturing ghosts of developmentalism through living stories. eceLINK: Journal of the Association of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario, 9(2), 28–38.

Kamdar, K. (2016). Funds of Knowledge: Connecting Culture, Play and Learning in the Early Years. The Quest for Increased Student Achievement and Well-Being: A Journal of Educational Inquiry and Practice, 10.

PUBLICATIONS, PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS

Kamdar, K., & Mirkovic, D. (in press). (In) between social justice and pedagogical documentation: Challenges and possibilities. In M. Tesar (Ed.), The encyclopedia of social justice in education: Early childhood education and childhood studies. Bloomsbury.

Mirkovic, D., & Kamdar, K. (2022). Education and care: Expanding traditional pedagogies with(in) a pandemic. In L. Henderson, K. Bussey, & H. Ebrahim (Eds.), Responding and speaking back to a global pandemic in early childhood education and care (pp. 113–128). Routledge.

Kamdar, K. (2020). Connecting culture and play: Practical strategies for early childhood educators. In S. Friedman & A. Mwenelupembe (Eds.), Each and every child: Teaching preschool with an equity lens (pp. 29–34). NAEYC.

PRESENTATIONS

Kamdar, K. (2026). Navigating Super-diversity in Early Childhood Education: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for Newcomer Families. Paper presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference, Winnipeg, MB.

Mirkovic, D. & Kamdar, K. (2025). Decolonizing Play: Reclaiming Play as Story, Expression, and Meaning-Making in Superdiverse Contexts. Paper presented at the RECE Annual Conference, Santiago, Chile.

Kamdar, K., & Mirkovic, D. (2023). Reimagining pedagogical documentation post-COVID. Paper presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference, Toronto, ON.

Kamdar, K. & Mirkovic, D. (2022). Stories from Beyond the Fence: Children’s Place-Based Postcolonial Entanglements. Paper presented at the Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education Conference, Vancouver, BC.

Kamdar, K. & Mirkovic, D. (2021). Equity in Education: Taking a Closer Look at Learning Stories. Workshop held at the Hilltop Children’s Centre and Educator Institute Learning Stories Conference, Seattle, WA.