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Learning Groups: Thinking, Pedagogical Documentation and Collaboration
For many years now, I have been interested in the essence of group encounters with children. By this I mean, contexts of learning that are group based rather than individual encounters of learning. I am very much inspired by the context of the Municipal schools in Reggio Emilia, Italy schools whom have as one of…
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Pedagogical Documentation and its links to Children’s Personal Social, and Emotional Well Being
Recently I was interviewed by Kathy Brodie as part of the Spring 2017 Early Years Summit. Here are some of the questions asked and my written responses (I go into more detail on the video, that can be accessed at the link at the end of this article. What is pedagogical documentation? Pedagogical documentation is…
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Drawing as Meaning Making
From Reggio, we gain a perspective that the ‘Arts’ are equal and co-existing ‘languages’ of expression and communication alongside and together with other ‘languages’… of science… of mathematics… of written word… of other ways of knowing, describing and discovering the world. Loris Malaguzzi’s poem, “No Way. The Hundred is There” is testament to this. Materials…
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Pedagogical Documentation in Challenging Times
I have in a much loved notebook that I took on my first ever visit to Reggio Emilia, now nearly 17 years ago, a quote by Malaguzzi scribed on a singular page saying that, “We can only change what we can take charge of.” In these times of undignified, ugly and paradoxical world ‘leaderships’ whose…
Debi Keyte-Hartland 