Beyond Memory - Malaguzzi's challenge
January 12, 2024
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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You, Do You Want War?
October 13, 2023
The children of the city of Reggio Emilia again give voice to this most powerful and anguished question ....
Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life ...
May 20, 2023
Coming across this memorial stone to Charlotte Mason today in Cumbria's Ambleside, I was prompted to delve deeper into her experience and writing.…
Let's hear it for Adventure - Adventure Playgrounds, and enlivening…
September 20, 2021
Baltic Street Adventure Playground, Glasgow. "Better a broken bone than a broken spirit." So runs the mantra for adventure playgrounds - as coined by…
Voices in Reframing Education
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:…
A year of opportunity for children, or yet more…
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…
Empathy, Curiosity and Creativity: education for…
This year we are highlighting how the ethics of relationship can prove a foundation for shaping education. We begin with a fantastic opportunity to…
Seeking Truth: Sixty Years in Early Childhood…
"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.…
Dialogue, Courage and Patience
Sightlines Initiative Network member Gillian Reece-Jones has been reflecting on a recent positive encounter with parliamentarians, recounts that they…
Thank you Ken Robinson
"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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Jul 03, 2020
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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…
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Jun 20, 2020
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"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…
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Jun 10, 2020
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"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…
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May 20, 2020
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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…
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May 20, 2020
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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…
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Apr 30, 2020
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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…
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Apr 21, 2020
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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…
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Apr 14, 2020
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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…
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Mar 16, 2020
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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…
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Aug 05, 2019
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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…
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