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Aesthetics of Relationships in the Early Childhood Classroom
The aesthetics of learning or the seeking out of beauty and loveliness as Vecchi (2010) described it has been embraced by the Reggio Emilia educational philosophy and can be seen in the ateliers, the spaces and rich environments of the schools, the presentation of children’s learning processes through pedagogical documentation as well as in the…
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The Journey into Children’s Drawing
I have always been both before and since the research of my MA days an avid interested party in the strategies and content of children’s drawing. I am currently reading the new book from the Contesting Early Childhood series published by Routledge entitled “Loris Malaguzzi and the Schools of Reggio Emilia” edited by Calgari, Castagnetti,…
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Questions of Enquiry in Early Childhood Education: Making New Connections in Learning
I have been reading an article today on psychotherapy and found the dialogue about therapeutic questions that help with connecting experiences and providing new spaces for new thinking a parallel to my work in education. You can read about Text Network Visualisation for Psychotherapy, below. I have used it extensively here to think about how…
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Aesthetics of the Digital Landscapes: Emergent Lands of Possibility and Transformation
Our challenge as teachers, educators, leaders is to see how the digital landscape can create new ways of expressing and constructing knowledge rather than replicating current ways of communication and expression. I for one am keen to explore these possibilities with our youngest of children, for they are born into it and cannot afford to…
Debi Keyte-Hartland 