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The One Hundred Languages (of Learning and Teaching)
Loris Malaguzzi wrote a poem called The One Hundred Languages of Children, and a Hundred, Hundred More. In it, he described his vision for how children learned through and in a hundred languages interweaving their ways of meaning-making and expressing their ideas about the world. The poem explains how ‘school’ steals ninety-nine of these ways of…
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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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Describing the Complexity of Learning
“Survival of the fittest, in a world that worships development and ‘forward-moving progress’ makes us all lost and small.” Nora Bateson. 2016. Small Arcs of Larger Circles I have been thinking lots recently about the language we use to describe learning and learning processes. We often speak in linear ways of ‘progress, ‘development’ and ‘next…
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Reflecting on Words that Describe the Processes of Children’s Learning
“The teachers art is to CONNECT in real time, with the LIVING bodies of the children with the LIVING bodies of KNOWLEDGE.” Stephen Nachmanovitch I have been part of a wonderful learning encounter in Toronto, Canada called #Rhythm2016 with Diane Kashin of Technology Rich Inquiry Based Research. As part of this experience I have been reflecting…
Debi Keyte-Hartland 