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Materials and Contexts: Thoughts about materials, learning in the context of Dakar
Materials and Contexts: Thoughts about materials, learning in the context of Senegal I have blogged before about the nature of Intelligent Materials – the idea that materials have inherent qualities and are neither neutral or devoid of suggestion or empathy with certain kinds of ideas and ways of using them. Here in Senegal, or rather…
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Cultural Engagement and Participation
It is often when you are away from home, in another context that you find yourself reflecting on what it is you do at home. Today I have been thinking about the cultural offer we make to children. How do we bring children to diverse cultural experiences that they might not participate in, that might be of…
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Journeys into Learning: Rhizomes and Reggio Emilia
Rhizomes and Reggio Emilia Many of you who read my blog will have noticed how I refer to the rhizome as a pattern in which I see learning happening in both children and adults. (Deleuze and Guttarri). It is akin to how the internet works – a way of jumping and landing on different pads…
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Aesthetics of the Digital Landscapes: Emergent Lands of Possibility and Transformation
Our challenge as teachers, educators, leaders is to see how the digital landscape can create new ways of expressing and constructing knowledge rather than replicating current ways of communication and expression. I for one am keen to explore these possibilities with our youngest of children, for they are born into it and cannot afford to…
Debi Keyte-Hartland 