Reggio Emilia Aotearoa New Zealand

REANZ CHCH Flyer4 August 2012-1
Pedagogical documentation:
Stories of Listening that make learning visible
Glenys Waller, Lesley Pohio, & Therese Visser Trustees of REANZ, along with Michelle Johnston from St Andrews Epsom Early Childhood Centre 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. Three of the panels (Browns Bay Preschool and St Andrews Epsom Early Childhood Centre) will be presented by Therese and Michelle, telling the stories that lie behind the documentation – including insights, explanations and reflections of the learning, as well as the documentation process.

Date: Saturday 4th August 2012

Time: 9.30am – 3.30pm

Venue: Hinton’s,750a Wairakei Road (Corner of Johns Road and Wairakei Road)

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.

Diti Hill is at the Summer School and has had the most amazing privilege to meet Jerome Bruner.from Reggio Emilia….. Well, what can I say: what a privilege to be here! Yesterday was our first day: 40 people only- such a luxury. I know several of them already such as Margot Hobba, Chris Celada and Mary Featherstone from Australia. also two young teachers from Rabbit Patch in Christchurch. Then there are Naama and Tulia (Red Solare)…. others from Asia (6), Germany, Italy, Uganda, Russia (4) and 10 or more from the USA.

So- just 40 people- and Amelia Gambetti is entertaining with lots of laughter and jokes and time to talk.

Yesterday was introductions with Carla Rinaldi taking the lead in the day’s processes and the day ended with a food tasting: 5 local businesses brought in beer, wine, polenta, a pear and apple reduction and a sausage as potential items to sell in the shop. A real surprise was that Jerome Bruner joined us! He is here as a guest of the Reggio Emilia educators ‘to learn more’. How amazing to meet him here at 97 years old (he was born 1915) and just sit there and talk to us over a glass of wine about the narrative conference he has just attended in Paris. The best thing from the conference for him? Wise words to end this email with and for you to ponder on:

” Narrative must always violate the expected; the unexpected is then made meaningful through the story”.

Diti Hill from Reggio Emilia Summer School.

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Contact REANZ if you are interested in attending.

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