The State of the Art in Infant toddler Care: Learning from Reggio Emilia

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The State of the Art in Infant toddler Care
Learning from Reggio Emilia

• Rebecca Kantor Michele Sanderson, The Ohio
  State University

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Reggio Emilia Overview

• Context

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Images of Children
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Environment and Aesthetics
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100 Language of Children
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Projects
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What is documentation?

• A broad range of documentation (videos, tape
  recordings, written notes, photos, childrens
  products etc.) produced and used IN PROCESS (that
  is during the experience) to make teaching
  decisions, as well as after the experience as
  assessment and communication.
• The process of interpreting and analyzing the
  documents is often from multiple perspectives
  with the goal of revealing teaching and learning.
  

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• it makes visible the nature of the learning
  processes and strategies used by each child (or
  the group), including the subjective and
  intersubjective processes
• It enables reading, revisiting, and assessment in
  time and space and these actions become an
  integral part of the knowledge-building process
• It is essential for metacognitive processes and
  for the understanding of children and adults

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Documentation Creating Traces
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Interpreting REA in our own setting
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Our lessons

• Learning to look and listen closely to see
  childrens capacities and document them
• Extending our confidence as mediators of
  experience
• Not opposing play and intentionality but
  integrating them
• Paying more attention to our environments
• and extending the range of materials that we
  offer them

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Project work

• Seeing projects (extended experiences) as viable
  for infants and toddlers
• Seeing projects as emerging in daily life (e.g.,
  construction), developmental tasks (e.g., rough
  and tumble), cultural interests (e.g., literacy)
  and adult provocations (e.g., using glue)
• Understanding the role of teacher inquiry and
  documentation in supporting projects

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Where do we go now?

• Our new transformative space in Weinland Park
• Co-constructing new pedagogies with our new
  partners

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