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A Hundred Languages for Describing the Reggio Emilia Approach
I have been motivated to write this blog post after a few recent events and conversations that have provoked me to think about the language we use to describe our educational experiences with children, especially those that are specifically ‘Reggio Inspired’. It has made me reflect on how Loris Malaguzzi described what he saw happening…
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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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Progettazione, by Suzanne Axelsson & Debi Keyte-Hartland
We have been inspired by through a recent question about progettazione posed on the Facebook Page here about progettazione that Suzanne curates. We have decided to collaborate together on a piece that explores what for each of us progettazione means and looks like. For Debi, progettazione is best described as a transdisciplinary, flexible and open…
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