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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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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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Materials and Contexts: Thoughts about materials, learning in the context of Dakar
Materials and Contexts: Thoughts about materials, learning in the context of Senegal I have blogged before about the nature of Intelligent Materials – the idea that materials have inherent qualities and are neither neutral or devoid of suggestion or empathy with certain kinds of ideas and ways of using them. Here in Senegal, or rather…
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Learning Interventions and Learning Group Facilitation
Learning Interventions and Learning Group Facilitation I guess I have always considered myself and have been described as others as the outsider to the process of change happening within an organisation such as a school. My role if anything has been to help facilitate an evolving state of change concerning professionalism, the raising of standards,…
Debi Keyte-Hartland 