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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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Drawing as Meaning Making
From Reggio, we gain a perspective that the ‘Arts’ are equal and co-existing ‘languages’ of expression and communication alongside and together with other ‘languages’… of science… of mathematics… of written word… of other ways of knowing, describing and discovering the world. Loris Malaguzzi’s poem, “No Way. The Hundred is There” is testament to this. Materials…
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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 