Pre-Conference Session on Documentation Practices
Pre-Conference Session on Documentation Practices
June 6th, 2019
Knoxville, Tennessee
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Background Content for Approaches to Documentation
Background Content for Approaches to Documentation
Project Zero - Making Learning Visible resources online
Project Zero - Making Learning Visible resources online
Wheelock College Documentation Studio
Wheelock College Documentation Studio
Foundations of Practice in Reggio- or Italian-influenced work:
Foundations of Practice in Reggio- or Italian-influenced work:
- Image of of the Child
- Progettazione
- Pedagogy of Listening
"The passage from display to documentation travels the path from informing to educating and thereby changes the teacher's perspective from observing children to studying children."
(Forman & Fyfe, 2012)
“We think of documentation as an act of caring, an act of love and interaction.”
(Rinaldi, 2012)
Examples of three types of documentation from the ELC
Examples of three types of documentation from the ELC
Finished Pieces
Finished Pieces
for sharing widely
Floorbooks
Floorbooks
for co-constructing and revisiting with children
Working Documentation
Working Documentation
for supporting teacher reflections, thinking, and planning; along with engaging children and families
To be open to others means to have the courage to come into this room and say, "I hope to be different when I leave, not necessarily because I agree with you but because your thoughts have made me think differently." This is why documentation is os fascinating and so difficult to share.
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Observe and listen to children because when they ask "why?" they are not simply asking for the answers from you. They are requesting the courage to find a collection of possible answers.
Rinaldi (2012)
"... I believe it is critical for practicing teachers to have a support system that enables and encourages them to listen to children, to seek to uncover the children's beliefs about the topics to be investigated, and to share and probe their theories and ideas."
-Brenda Fyfe, quoted by Gandini & Kaminsky (2002, p. 8)
Additional Readings
Additional Readings
Where possible, we have added links directly to the online access to readings.
Forman, G., & Fyfe, B. (2012). Negotiated learning through design, documentation, and discourse. In C. Edwards, L. Gandini, & G. Forman (Eds.), The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Experience in Transformation (3rd ed.). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
Reggio Children (2011). The stairway voice: From metal stairway to musical stairway. In The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children. Reggio Emilia, Italy: Reggio Children.
Rinaldi, C. (2012) The pedagogy of listening: The listening perspective from Reggio Emilia. In C. Edwards, L. Gandini, & G. Forman (Eds.), The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia experience in transformation (3rd edition). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
Dani Rose Thibus, M.S.
Dani Rose Thibus, M.S.
drose@utk.edu
Robyn Brookshire, PhD
Robyn Brookshire, PhD
rbrooks8@utk.edu
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