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Describing the Complexity of Learning
“Survival of the fittest, in a world that worships development and ‘forward-moving progress’ makes us all lost and small.” Nora Bateson. 2016. Small Arcs of Larger Circles I have been thinking lots recently about the language we use to describe learning and learning processes. We often speak in linear ways of ‘progress, ‘development’ and ‘next…
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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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Journeys into Learning: Rhizomes and Reggio Emilia
Rhizomes and Reggio Emilia Many of you who read my blog will have noticed how I refer to the rhizome as a pattern in which I see learning happening in both children and adults. (Deleuze and Guttarri). It is akin to how the internet works – a way of jumping and landing on different pads…
Debi Keyte-Hartland 