Dear parents/ carers, centres & schools,
We have started a series of blogs and exchanges to support families and children learning together at home.
from 'Traps & Tenderness': Viviana & Federico
Through these blogs we aim to provide an inspiring resource to families, so that home learning can be an exciting and joyful experience.
The blogs will appear once a week on our website and on social media, and will include some ideas for you and your children to explore at home.
We would like to share experiences of children and families in the blogs and invite you to participate by sending us your photographs, videos, notes from your family explorations. We’d be able to share some of your experiences on our website, blogs and on our social media pages – this will all help build a lively picture of parents and children around the country imaginatively exploring, learning and being together.
We are in an enforced situation, but we can maximise the joy and playfulness and new perspectives which are hidden in our everydays.
Some of the things we anticipate that the explorations will include are:
Sightlines Initiative is an organisation working with educators, families and others interested in creative and imaginative approaches to education.
Click on 'Subscribe to our blog' on the left of this page to sign up to Sightlines Blog posts.
Go to 'JOIN' to sign up to share some of your children's and your experiences
Click on the Title to go to the Topic introduction and it's gallery of responses:
"Our language is full of metaphor; arguably it comprises metaphor."
We are working on the offering of this new project for 2019.
As educators we can hugely benefit from working to attune ourselves to a way of seeing the world metaphorically. This project is intended to assist us in this. We will also explore new ways in which we can present educational opportunities for children in order to amplify their potentials, to exercise their own competencies in metaphorical expression … Anyone who is a subscribed member can participate, whether or not they are in a Network Group.
You can read much more about the proposal on these pages, and we will be discussing it during our Network Seminar day with Tiziana Filippini in London on November 10th.
Following this, we'll be updating the information, and setting up a Facebook Group for Members who would like to participate. Do email Robin (
All the best, Robin Duckett, Director, Sightlines Initiative.
Here is a list of articles, references and discussion.
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You need to have first signed up to the individual recording in order to access it.
The signup page is here.
Here is a broad mix of articles, reflections, comments, position pieces, as well as requests and information from Network members.
It is a comprehensive library, building since 2010. This page shows a brief selection of recent articles. You can browse individual categories via the submenus:
Do contact us with your suggestions for new articles - and we really appreciate comments and other feedback.
Robin Duckett
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