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Editorial

A broad selection of commentary and opinion pieces.


recent articles

January 12, 2024
Editorial 944 Robin Duckett

Beyond Memory - Malaguzzi's challenge

In GAZZETTA DI REGGIO, the regional newspaper of Reggio Emilia, yesterday the Director of the city's preschools published an article celebrating the…
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October 13, 2023
Editorial 881 Robin Duckett

You, Do You Want War?

The children of the city of Reggio Emilia again give voice to this most powerful and anguished question ....
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May 20, 2023
Editorial 1133 Robin Duckett

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life ...

Coming across this memorial stone to Charlotte Mason today in Cumbria's Ambleside, I was prompted to delve deeper into her experience and writing.…
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September 20, 2021
Editorial 1953 Robin Duckett

Let's hear it for Adventure - Adventure Playgrounds, and enlivening…

Baltic Street Adventure Playground, Glasgow. "Better a broken bone than a broken spirit." So runs the mantra for adventure playgrounds - as coined by…
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Voices in Reframing Education

Jun 28, 2021 Editorial
The state of education is in a maelstrom, and children, educators and families with it. There's a pushmi-pullyu situation going on - it isn't new:…
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A year of opportunity for children, or yet more…

Jun 07, 2021 Editorial
What are our policymakers interested in? As evidenced here, it seems to be still more tallying-up, rather than actual attention to children's broad…
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Empathy, Curiosity and Creativity: education for…

Apr 21, 2021 Editorial
This year we are highlighting how the ethics of relationship can prove a foundation for shaping education. We begin with a fantastic opportunity to…
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Seeking Truth: Sixty Years in Early Childhood…

Mar 26, 2021 Editorial
"I learned a great deal from the children, families and communities in London's Docklands and the East End where I started teaching in 1961.…
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Dialogue, Courage and Patience

Nov 23, 2020 Editorial
Sightlines Initiative Network member Gillian Reece-Jones has been reflecting on a recent positive encounter with parliamentarians, recounts that they…
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Thank you Ken Robinson

Aug 20, 2020 Editorial
"RIP to Sir Ken Robinson, an eloquent and indefatigable defender of the role of the arts and creativity in education. His TED talks made him…
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Older Articles

Jul 03, 2020 Editorial

Dens, Dens, everywhere

"Rainy day dens, sunny day dens, inside, outside. Whatever the mood or weather the boys love to make a den, and let their imaginations run wild. Even… continue reading ...
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Jun 20, 2020 Editorial

"Dreaming of a time where schools are able to…

Well, the testing of five year-olds has been postponed - for a year - by the UK government. It has taken the force majeure of the virus epidemic to… continue reading ...
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Jun 10, 2020 Editorial

"Play, love, investigate, test, question, argue,…

Sightlines Initiative's friend and colleague Pat Gura died recently, and the Froebel Institute have already collected some tributes. We also want to… continue reading ...
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May 20, 2020 Editorial

Seeing from other points of view: Learning…

This invitation - to look at things in new and unusual ways, or from someone else's perspective - is a strong component of our growing knapsack of… continue reading ...
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May 20, 2020 Editorial

Dens of Imagination: Learning Together at Home…

Here is another in our suggestions series: Learning Together at Home (If you haven't already, click on the link to sign up for news and to… continue reading ...
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Apr 30, 2020 Editorial

Robots - Friends & Fixers: 'Learning Together at…

Here is another in our suggestions series: Learning Together at Home (If you haven't already, click on the link to sign up for news and to… continue reading ...
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Apr 21, 2020 Editorial

Through The Window: 'Learning Together at Home'…

painting by Jaweria Sethi, director of Edopia School, Pakistan, April 2020 Look out of your window: - Draw a picture of what you can see – either the… continue reading ...
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Apr 14, 2020 Editorial

Learning Together at Home

from 'Traps & Tenderness': Viviana & Federico Dear parents/ carers, and educators We are beginning a series of blogs and exchanges which will help… continue reading ...
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Mar 16, 2020 Editorial

Japan-UK Early Childhood Education Dialogues

I am just back from encounters with a network of early childhood educators in Yamanashi prefecture, a large district to the West of Tokyo. The plan… continue reading ...
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Aug 05, 2019 Editorial

Talking Plants - humans learn to listen better ...

Astro-physicist Jen Gupta and comedian Alice Fraser travel the parallel worlds of science and sci-fi. Summer listening: here is a fascinating - and… continue reading ...
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