Interaction Imagination

Just as I no longer refer to myself as Reggio Emilia inspired, but Malaguzzi inspired because of the many different ways that the...

Over in the Original Learning Approach facebook group the stirrings of a grassroots movement to elevate the status of play and ECE has...

Water is many things... for a start it comes in many forms... liquid, gas and solid... A flexibility to meet the needs of the...

Play and listening... it keeps coming back to these two things for me. If I was to boil it down to two important words it would be Play...

This is a post to collect ideas about dandelions... so I assume over time I will return here and add things as I discover them....

In my FB group The Original Learning Approach I shared the below quote and it stimulated some really interesting dialogues... not least...

I have started a new blog to meet then needs of a new project you may have noticed I have immersed myself in. I am connecting with the...

I have started training as a playworker Each Friday I meet with a group of others also wanting to train as a playworker and we actively...

Risk is one of the essential threads of Original Learning. During the last few weeks I have been immensely fortunate to listen and...

The Emergent Curriculum is about being responsive to the children. That the curriculum, the teaching emerges from the child's needs and...

Traditions are an important part of creating belonging... they can also contribute to exclusion, and they have a tendency in ECE settings...

Language and communication is essential to reflect on... how it shapes, includes, excludes and forms bias.. Moving to Sweden from the UK...

To be honest, this is something I have struggled with my entire life... As a child and as an adult we are being constantly reminded about...

Recently I changed the name of the Facebook group I have been admin for over a decade... from Inspired by the Reggio Emilia Approach to...

I am sorting through my computer and getting rid of old things, and rediscovering notes, and essays and all sorts as I do this... And I...

Today is the first day of the last month of 2020. A very different year than we all were expecting, that has required some creative...

This is a massive story to tell, and I know I will not have time to tell it all now... but just some parts of it... In this part I strive...

Many years ago now I started a project called "Together on the Square". The aim was to "teach" empathy by exposing the children to...

The report "The Future of the World's Children" commissioned by WHO, UNICEF and The Lancet, can be read in its entirety here. It is a...

Responding to the children not following the children is key in Original Learning - plans are made, activities designed to provoke...