Making Learning Visible

To make a loveable school (industrious, inventive, liveable, documentable and communicable, a place of research, learning, re-cognition and reflection) where children, and teachers, and parents, feel well: this is our landing place.
Loris Malaguzzi

What do we mean by “documentation” in Reggio Emilia’s infant-toddler centres and preschools? Why is it such a fundamental working tool for all those working in the field of education? What multiple meanings does it have, and how many?

This course of professional learning takes us through a theme that constitutes one of the pillars of the Reggio Emilia Approach.

Documentation, in the educational experience of Reggio Emilia’s municipal infant-toddler centres and preschools is an integral, structuring part of educational theories and didactics; it gives value to, and makes explicit, visible, and evaluable, the nature of subjective (single) and group learning processes in children and adults identified through observation, and makes them into a common shared legacy.  It is, therefore, a fundamental strategy and working tool for all those working in educational contexts.

Considered to be a “public place”, documentation gives substance to the idea of infant-toddler centres and preschools that elaborate a culture of childhood and of education, with a democratic process.

This professional learning course we propose will take participants through the theme of documentation with all its multiplicity of meanings:

-  the collection of documents necessary for design / progettazione

-  interpretation as an act that is conscious and shared

-  the production of materials for communication 

-  a tool and strategy for the development of teacher learning and self-learning 

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