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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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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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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,…
Debi Keyte-Hartland 