Reggio Emilia Aotearoa New Zealand

Click here: Comments on Lorraine’s presentation

Message from Mrs Ng and amazing feedback on Lorraine’s Keynote presentation from the participants of the Singapore Conference.
Here is information about a conference in Singapore 26th – 28th April 2012.
Provocations for Practice
By speakers from Reggio Emilia, Italy
EtonHouse Education Centre staff are happy to share with you further details about the forthcoming conference to be held 26-28 April with speakers directly from Reggio Emilia, Northern Italy.

The programme and registration details now include additional information on our International Network speaker Lorraine Manuela from New Zealand along with details of key note speakers Paola Cagliari and Ivana Soncini.

We are also pleased to announce the participation of Jane McCall in our conference. Jane is an experienced interpreter who comes to us from Reggio Emilia, where she frequently works in collaboration with Reggio Children to assist the translation of dialogue from Italian into English. Jane lives in Reggio Emilia and will be travelling with our two speakers from Italy. Jane comes to us with many positive endorsements:

A unique opportunity to interact with and be inspired by speakers directly from Reggio Emilia.
Paola Cagliari Director of Pre-schools and Infant-toddler Centres
Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia
Ivana Soncini Ivana Soncini graduated from the Universita’ degli Studi, Padova in 1977 with a degree in psychology. She also completed a four year program The Formation of Systemic Therapy at the Family Therapy Centre in Milan.

Please find attached the information, programme and speakers from Reggio Emilia. Upated Programme:Programme and Registration_Reggio 2012

Programme : There have been expressions of interest from across the Asia Pacific Region.

Kia ora everyone,

We are very excited that Karin Eskesen from Denmark has accepted our invitation to visit New Zealand in May. To Register click here: flier final
Please Note Christchurch and Palmerston North Seminars are now FULL and CLOSED.
Karin offers inspiration through her reflections on the Danish Forest Schools; engaging children in our natural world through the use of found materials;  and research project work within early childhood education. For more information read the newsletter.

With kind regards,

The REANZ Team

Chris, Denise, Diti, Glenys, Helen, Julianne, Lesley, Lorraine, Prue, Therese and Wendy

Pedagogical documentation:
Stories of Listening that makes learning visible
Lorraine Manuela & Helen Aitken, trustees of REANZ, along with Bronwyn Glass from Botany Downs Kindergarten will share THREE presentations in this one day seminar. The presentations will be designed to provoke thinking and discussion in relation to the ‘pedagogy of listening’ and documenting children’s learning (and teacher reflection) more effectively.

Some of you who travelled north for the 100 Languages of Children conference last year may have had the opportunity to view the Pedagogical documentation panels produced by REANZ in collaboration with five centres. Two of the panels (Tots Corner & Botany Downs Kindergarten) will be travelling with us and Lorraine and Bronwyn will present the stories behind the documentation – including insights, explanations and reflections of the learning, as well as the documentation process.

Date: Saturday 26th May 2012

Time: 9.30am – 3.30pm

Venue: Ministry of Education Seminar Room, Forth St, Invercargill

Catering: Lunch and morning tea provided
(please indicate when registering if you have particular dietary requests)

Cost: $110.00 per person

Limited spaces: Please book early to avoid missing out.
Please complete the registration form below and email or post to:
Email: susanstorey1000@gmail.com
OR
Post: REANZ Trust c/- Susan Storey, PO Box 26020, Epsom, Auckland, 1344.

Confirmation of registration:
When your registration is confirmed, Susan will provide you with a reference number. Please write this number when making payment using one of the two options below:
Payment options:

1. Cheque to: REANZ Trust c/- Susan Storey, PO Box 26020, Epsom, Auckland, 1344.
(Please write reference number and your name and address on the back of cheque)
OR
2. Direct Debit to REANZ: 12 3038 0408638 00
(Please add your reference number and your name).

Note: Confirmation of place will be emailed to you. A GST receipt will be emailed on request.

Please complete the registration form below and email or post to:
Email: susanstorey1000@gmail.com
or
Post: REANZ Trust c/- Susan Storey
PO Box 26020
Epsom
Auckland 1344

INVERCARGILL SATURDAY SEMINAR REGISTRATION FORM:

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Reggio Emilia Australia Information Exchange is pleased to inform you of the following update regarding the Carla Rinaldi Adelaide Thinkers in Residence Opening Lecture:

Due to a sellout lecture and great interest from across the country the Adelaide Thinkers in Residence Opening Lecture by Carla Rinaldi will now include live streaming. The details of the live streaming of this event are available here:

http://www.thinkers.sa.gov.au/Thinkers/CarlaRinaldi/p510.aspx

We hope you are able to share in some of the wisdom Carla is bringing us!

For further information regarding the Thinkers in Residence program and Carla Rinaldi’s visits go to the Thinkers in Residence website.

Reggio Emilia Australia
Information Exchange

re :search for a new culture of childhood

Phone: +61 3 9810 3126/3166
Fax: +61 3 9818 1672
Email: admin@reggioaustralia.org.au
Web: www.reggioaustralia.org.au
442 Auburn Rd, Hawthorn, Australia 3122

Dear friends,

We think you will enjoy this video on documentation. It was produced at Wheelock College and forwarded to us by one of our Canadian REANZ ‘Friends’, Laurie Kocher. It includes significant footage of educators in Reggio talking about their work.

Regards
REANZ

Panel Documentation evenings
ContentREANZ Ped Doc panel events 2012 final
Over 100 people have registered for the four Pedagogical Panel evenings. The evenings are now full. Many more people were unable to attend so watch out for future evenings. The teachers who wrote the stories will unpack the content and discuss the development of the panels.

Karin Eskesen
Karin Eskesen Flier
Interpreting the educational experience
of Reggio Emilia, from a Danish perspective
REANZ is pleased to announce Karin Eskesen’s visit to New Zealand. Karin had the privilege of working closely with Loris Malaguzzi, and is the founding and continuing Director of the Danish Reggio Emilia Network and Danish representative to the Reggio Children International Network.
Karin comes to us with a wealth of experience as an experienced former teacher who has worked for many years as an educator in Preschools and Primary schools; and also as Head of government home based care and head of Educational Studies at the Royal Copenhagen University in Odense.
Karin currently works with teachers at all levels of education, and lectures in Demark. She is a well respected international speaker and was instrumental in setting up and organizing Remida educational recycling centres across Denmark in collaboration with many local government authorities.
Seminar One: Friday 11th May 2012, 6.30 pm – 9.00 pm
and Saturday 12th May. 9.00 am – 1.00 pm
Auckland St Cuthberts College, Market Road, Greenlane, Auckland
Cost: $130.00
Seminar Two: Monday 14th May 2012, 6.00 pm – 9.00 pm
Palmerston Mana Tamariki, 165 Grey Street, Palmerston North
North
Cost: $45.00

Seminar Three: REANZ would like to show our solidarity with the people of Christchurch and offer this presentation to you at the special price of $20.
Wednesday 16th May 2012, 6.00 pm – 9.00 pm
Bromley School, 33 Keighleys Road, Bromley
Cost: $20.00

Kerikeri and Havelock North
See information below.

Further Seminars are planned for Wellington, Dunedin and Invercargill ~ watch this space

the Pedagogy of Listening – a New Zealand perspective…

The educational project in Reggio Emilia is a catalyst to provoke and challenge thinking about teaching and learning in the early years. This pedagogy involves choices and opens up many possibilities. It evolves and changes through a process that sees those involved informed by continual questioning, reflection and research. Denise Heald, a Trustee of REANZ and Hanna Faletaupule from Tots Corner, offer you three workshops in this one day seminar, designed to provoke your thinking. We will focus on the notion of ‘listening’ to infants, toddlers and young children and we invite you to join us in exploring what this might mean for you in your particular context in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Apply Now; Havelock North flyer.

Stories behind Pedagogical Documentation: Explanations, reflections and insights

Some of you may have had the opportunity to view the Pedagogical documentation panels displayed in the St Cuthbert’s hall at our 100 Languages of Children conference last year. This series of documentation panels was produced by REANZ in collaboration with five centres. Our intention in creating the panels was to showcase some of the insightful practices and documentation of children’s learning that is occurring right here in Aotearoa!

We now offer you the opportunity to see three panels for yourself and to hear from the teachers involved, about what was ‘behind’ the panels– their stories, insights, explanations and reflections of the learning, and the documentation process. Listen to the teachers unpack and discuss the learning and teaching that made the production of these magnificent panels possible.

The panel stories will be presented in this one day Seminar that has been tailor made to allow for discussion and dialogue. Participants may ask questions of the teachers, which we hope will support teachers to reconsider opportunities for learning and documentation in their own context. These two documentation panels include examples of infant/toddler’s, and young children’s learning and thinking.

Apply now; Kerikeri March event

Nga mihi o te tau hou ki a koe – happy new year! We hope you all had a restful break and are looking forward to the year ahead.

To begin the year, we have put together a series of 4 workshops and at $45 for the complete package (not each) this can’t be missed!

Please forward this on to anyone you think might be interested in learning more about pedagogical documentation.

Regards,

Chris, Denise, Diti, Glenys, Helen, Julianne, Lesley, Lorraine, Prue, Therese, Wendy

The REANZ Trustees

Click here for the flyer: REANZ Ped Doc panel events 2012 final

PS We have many more opportunities coming to a town near you this year. Watch out for more information.

More information and costs :SecondSummerSchool

Loris Malaguzzi International Centre
Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia

Reggio Children

Reggio Children – Loris Malaguzzi Centre Foundation

Second International Summer School
in Reggio Emilia, Italy

June 3-15, 2012

“The dimension of research
and the hundred languages of children”

- Principles of the educational project -
Indications. Preschools and Infant-toddler centres Municipality of Reggio Emilia

Research represents one of the essential dimensions of life of children and adults alike, a knowledge-building tension that must be recognized and valued. Shared research between adults and children is a priority practice of everyday life, and existential and ethical approach necessary for interpreting the complexity of the world, of phenomena, of systems of co-existence, and is a powerful instrument of renewal in education.

As human beings, all children possess hundred languages, hundred ways of thinking, of expressing themselves, of understanding and of encountering others, with a way of thinking that creates connections between the various dimensions of experience rather than separating them.

“The dimension of research
and the hundred languages of children”

SAVE THE DATE June 3-15, 2012