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A European Transdisciplinary Learning Research Project: Making the Parts ‘Whole’
I am part of an international group of researching schools funded by the European Union as part of the Erasmus + strategy. It spans four countries (England, Sweden, Spain and Romania) who are just beginning to research how children aged 2-7 learn/research/live in environments that are supportive of the kind of learning/researching/living that we are…
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Participation, Pedagogical Documentation and the Design of Empathetic Learning Contexts
At the weekend I attended our Sightlines Initiative conference entitled “All Our Futures”. Sightlines Initiative for those who might not know is the UK reference point and member of the International Network of Reggio Children. We are an independent organisation promoting creative and reflective practice in early childhood education. As an organisation we promote the…
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Looking for Learning, Seeking Meaning-Making: Fostering meaning-making in a learning experience
There is an abundance of ideas and activities all over Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook that point to many ‘learning experiences’ and activity set ups for young children and whilst I appreciate the sharing community of educators all wanting to do the best by children, many of these pinned activities are devoid of their learning context,…
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The One Hundred Languages of Children
“The One Hundred Languages is a metaphor for the extraordinary potentials of children, their knowledge-building and creative processes, the myriad forms with which life is manifested and knowledge is constructed. The hundred languages are understood as having the potential to be transformed and multiplied in the cooperation and interaction between the languages, among the children, and…
Debi Keyte-Hartland 