A Two Day Reggio-Inspired Institute
Thursday July 3, 2014 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm (2 hours training) Registration Fee $20
Friday July 4, 2014 from 9:00am - 3:00pm (lunch included, 6 hours training) Registration Fee $95
Saturday July 5, 2014 from 9:00am - 3:00pm (lunch included, 6 hours training) Registration Fee $95
*Friday July 4 and Saturday July 5, 2014 (12 hours training) Registration Fee $160
Join us as we explore ideas and possibilities from the pedagogical approach of Reggio Emilia for our own westcoast contexts. Stefania Giamminuti, author and researcher of the Reggio approach, invites us to consider our own identities,our contexts and our images of children, educators, and families. She exhorts us to construct an image of early childhood settings as places of encounter, places of culture, places of democracy,and places for shared research between children, families, and teachers.
July 3, 2014 Evening Talk (7-9pm):Young Children’s Right to Beauty: Aesthetics and Pedagogical Documentation in Reggio Emilia
Stefania illustrates sensitivity to aesthetics of the environment in the schools of Reggio Emilia as a cultural choice and value. She shows how schools and communities can be empathetic environments, welcoming to children, educators,and families, places that ‘belong’ to children and speak of them. This talk will inspire participants to imagine and create beautiful environments for children and with children and to consider aesthetics as a value.
July 4, 2014 Institute Day One: Early Years Settings as Places of Research - Possibilities from Reggio Emilia
The focus of this day is on thinking about contexts and values in early childhood settings through the lens of possibilities offered by the educational project of Reggio Emilia. Beginning with an overview of key pedagogical principles, Stefania will share stories from daily life in the municipal infant-toddler centres and schools; the evolution of a project drawing and narrative from Arcobaleno infant-toddler centre; the experience of the learning community at Neruda school welcoming a child with Down’s syndrome; and The Story of the Last Paratrooper to Land, a celebration of the ‘meaningful alliance’ between educators and families. Stefania uses rich images and video footage from her research internship in Reggio Emilia to illustrate the possibilities that pedagogical documentation offers to make values and choices visible in early childhood settings.
July 5, 2014 Institute Day Two: Dancing with Reggio Emilia: Metaphors for Quality
This day’s focus is on reconceptualizing quality in early childhood settings, and re-imagining research as an ethic of welcome and relationship. Inspired by the voices and daily life of children, families, and educators in Reggio Emilia, Stefania will propose a view of quality as value-laden and culturally constructed. Through the story of her own encounter with the learning communities of Arcoboleno infant-toddler centre and Neruda school, she will explore the image of early childhood settings as places of research, where children and adults are welcomed and valued as researchers in daily life. Examples from daily life - rich images and the voices of children, teachers, and families - are used to frame new understandings of quality and an invitation is extended to teachers to see themselves as researchers in their every day encounters with children.
For more details, please visit Vancouver Reggio Consortium at: http://vancouverreggioconsortium.ca/professional-development.html
Registration starts: Friday April 18, 2014
Maximum participants 300
Parking fees are in effect.
Please mark this date on your calendar, as we will not send a reminder.
Registration provided by Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre.
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Note: If the event is full, please contact Bev Superle at bsuperle@shaw.ca to be placed on the wait list.