Last year, a documentary film called ‘Most Likely to Succeed’ had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and is now playing in...
Can children build theories?
Can children build theories? Do you think a baby can build a theory? ...
Pope Francis on Education
We share with you a recent article from Catholic News Service by Junno Arocho Esteves, posted on 23rd November 2015. In the article Pope...
Does imagination have a place in education?
The Grammar of Fantasy was written by Italian writer and educator from Reggio Emilia Gianni Rodari. In the foreword, Herbet Kohl asks: What is...
A Teacher’s Reflection
Elyse is a teacher from Holy Family Catholic School. She has kindly shared her documentation with us. Thank you Elyse for having the courage to...
Early Childhood Network Term 4 2015
Please join us at the Early Years Network Term 4 meeting with special guest speaker Helen O’Brien. Flyer available here.
Reggio Emilia: City of interaction
Thursday It was with much pleasure that we visited MUNARI pre school for an evening tea party! What a joy this centre proved to...
Reggio Emilia – City of possibility
Thursday
Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more.
Loris Malaguzzi
Malaguzzi’s quote may well have been the spark for the Erio Tondelli school project ARRAMPICATE, tra il possible e l’impossible (Climbing between possible and impossible). Our friends today Matteo Bini (Atelier) and Moira Nicolosi (Pedagogista) delivered an inspiring presentation on the purpose, background, connections and documentation of children’s learning through many, many languages – but with the focus being on drawing form, movement and relationship of the body movements encountered when climbing. An intriguing example of the importance of recording children’s comments, interpreting their drawings, “relaunching” the project guided by next steps in the learning – documentation which reflected peer assessment , critique and constructive feedback. A focus of their presentation was to emphasise that it is through documentation that we make children’s learning visible. The mornings discussions, questioning and reflections from Matteo and Moira explicitly reflected Loris Malaguzzis philosophy and vision for education.
Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding.
The afternoon sessions had participants divide into small groups to ponder the following provocations:
- In your everyday work consider the connections, difficulties and perplexities you may encounter between the Reggio theory and practice of designing, observing and documentation.
- In your context, what are the most important elements in curriculum for the 0-6 child?
It would be great to hear from you what your reflections would be!
The feedback session from the task was reflective and quite robust! Many questions on the “how” for primary age children.
Reggio Emilia – City of Ateliers
Tuesday and Wednesday Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch the river flow by; instead, they should embark together...
Reggio Emilia – A City of Research
Monday Today we were fortunate to begin our study week in the marvellous Loris Malaguzzi International Centre. The official blurb from the website is...