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Pedagogical Documentation in Challenging Times
I have in a much loved notebook that I took on my first ever visit to Reggio Emilia, now nearly 17 years ago, a quote by Malaguzzi scribed on a singular page saying that, “We can only change what we can take charge of.” In these times of undignified, ugly and paradoxical world ‘leaderships’ whose…
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Drawing and Young Children: Re-Connecting With Our Own Poetic Languages
I was privileged last week to be invited to run a workshop about drawing, teaching and young children. My work began by collecting many different types of drawing media (inks, watercolours, charcoal, soft pastels, oil pastel, pencil crayons of different varieties, aqua crayons, non permanent and permanent markers, graphite, charcoal pencils to name a few. …
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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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Young Children’s Drawings: Marks, Meaning and Materials
I have been reading the Reggio Children book Mosaic of Marks, Words, Materials. It is a book dedicated to their ongoing research into the One Hundred Languages of Children as expressed in Loris Malaguzzi’s poem of the same name. This research focuses on the interplay between drawing and narration; on the interplay between marks, surfaces…
Debi Keyte-Hartland 