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What could be the outcome of a ‘Professional Thinking Day’ instead of CPD based around presentations and pre-defined outcomes?
“Thinking is where intelligent action begins” Margaret Wheatley In any kind of professional learning and development, the birth of new ideas and thinking that comes from the participants themselves, rather than being instructed and handed down by an expert trainer is powerful, motivating and energising. Nancy Kline (1999) considers how in being enabled the time to…
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A Hundred Languages for Describing the Reggio Emilia Approach
I have been motivated to write this blog post after a few recent events and conversations that have provoked me to think about the language we use to describe our educational experiences with children, especially those that are specifically ‘Reggio Inspired’. It has made me reflect on how Loris Malaguzzi described what he saw happening…
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The Languages of Drawing in a Context of Inquiry. An EARCOS funded Workshop in Beijing
It was my absolute pleasure and honour to be asked to prepare and present in this 2 day weekend workshop hosted by the International School of Beijing (ISB) with the passionate and dedicated Louise Lowings, who is the Head Teacher of the internationally known Madeley Nursery School in Telford, UK which is one of the…
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Playing with Ideas: Play, Learning and Progettazione
The word ‘play’ is a very contextual and highly debated word. What it means is often different from one person to another. It can range from the totality for the freedom for play where there is no need or little need for adult direction. This may come from a biological and evolutionary perspective such as…
Debi Keyte-Hartland 