Loris Malaguzzi Centre<\/a>. And sure enough, it was. Although the talk did not include references to this project, instead it was used as a simile for practitioner reflections: because it is like walking on threads of silk \u2013 delicate yet strong, interwoven with every fibre of practice and representing the very being of the early educators of the Reggio Emilia Preschools.<\/p>\nWhat are the key points you have taken away?<\/span><\/p>\nSo many points were poignant for me and I will only list just a few:<\/p>\n
\n- In documenting children\u2019s learning (or making their learning visible), photographs are viewed as the language that captures the aesthetic dimension of communication ideas and which creates and strengthens relationships.<\/li>\n
- The right to subjectivity. The right of the child, the pedagogue and the family to subjectivity and this was taken in the context or discourse of documentation, illustrated by a quote from Malaguzzi: \u201cThe discovery of children\u2019s competencies is one of the greatest discoveries, most productive and most generative discoveries ever made, also in terms of subjectivity and right<\/em>.\u201d (This was a verbatim translation of a small section of one of his speeches.) Pedagogical documentation gives visibility to the capacities that we credit children with, and through this, adults are able to participate in the construction of children\u2019s knowledge. Documentation captures the processes of how children build knowledge; it makes the intentions of the child visible when often these very subjective underlying thought processes are invisible.<\/li>\n
- I loved how Marina referred to what could be seen as an \u2018error\u2019 or a ‘mistake’ as the representations of endless possibilities. Children privilege knowledge through transformative action. In the process of transformation the child anticipates, conjures, tries out and checks, co-ordinates meanings that are progressively born from actions, transgresses, negotiates, adjusts, issues things from hands and mind.\u00a0 We see things that truly belong to children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
How will your learning from this seminar impact on your future research and work?<\/span><\/p>\nApart from feeling an urge to be back in practice with children, I will think about \u2018right to subjectivity\u2019, give it meaning in relation to our Children\u2019s Rights in Hungary project. I think these sentiments just underscore how I understand the significance of listening to young children and see them as experts of\/in their own lives.<\/p>\n
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