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The Journey into Children’s Drawing
I have always been both before and since the research of my MA days an avid interested party in the strategies and content of children’s drawing. I am currently reading the new book from the Contesting Early Childhood series published by Routledge entitled “Loris Malaguzzi and the Schools of Reggio Emilia” edited by Calgari, Castagnetti,…
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Technology in Early Childhood Education: Tools and Languages
If we are to develop new pedagogical approaches that value digital and technological ‘tools’ as capable of expressive and creative potential then we must look to the digital landscape as a range of possible languages rather than ‘tools’. In this, I mean, how can we view digital languages as poetic and aesthetic, as a means…
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Meaning-Making and Digital Languages. Technology as a Creative and Expressive Language: New Research
The digital environment is often offered to children as a tool to find and consume information and as a fun and interactive way to develop skills and techniques though games. Often, iPads are used by teachers in increasing ways for assessment systems and record keeping – a one stop shop for teaching and measuring. For…
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Questions of Enquiry in Early Childhood Education: Making New Connections in Learning
I have been reading an article today on psychotherapy and found the dialogue about therapeutic questions that help with connecting experiences and providing new spaces for new thinking a parallel to my work in education. You can read about Text Network Visualisation for Psychotherapy, below. I have used it extensively here to think about how…
Debi Keyte-Hartland 