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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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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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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…
Debi Keyte-Hartland 