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The Languages of Drawing in a Context of Inquiry. An EARCOS funded Workshop in Beijing
It was my absolute pleasure and honour to be asked to prepare and present in this 2 day weekend workshop hosted by the International School of Beijing (ISB) with the passionate and dedicated Louise Lowings, who is the Head Teacher of the internationally known Madeley Nursery School in Telford, UK which is one of the…
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Playing with Ideas: Play, Learning and Progettazione
The word ‘play’ is a very contextual and highly debated word. What it means is often different from one person to another. It can range from the totality for the freedom for play where there is no need or little need for adult direction. This may come from a biological and evolutionary perspective such as…
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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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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. …
Debi Keyte-Hartland 