Ildikó is an early childhood educator. She has a degree in early childhood special needs education from Georgia State University, US and experience in the Canadian, US and Hungarian educational environments.  She is currently pursuing The Masters of Education degree in Early Childhood Education (MED ECE), which brings experienced educators together for a two-year (2019-2021) cross-disciplinary program.  Her interest in the complex and inclusive ways of forming ‘natural childhoods’ spurred her curiosity about children’s relations with place and everyday, natural materials. Her focus on child-material relations and movement pedagogies is motivated by a commitment attending to stories and events that evolve by chance in the themes of children’s relations with other species, with the material world and with place.