2022 Research Symposium Topics

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Documentation making learning visible

  • As a strategy to inform policy and political advocacy.
  • As a context for rich collaboration.
  • Creating a context for listening, supporting our capacity to pay attention to children’s wonderings and curiosities.
  • Giving visibility to the hundred languages.
  • Inviting children’s agency (voice).

Documentation as professional learning

  • Documentation inviting a relationship between theory and practice.
  • Providing opportunities for collaborative, critical reflection – highlighting the value of collaborative research as a professional learning opportunity.
  • Documentation supporting co-participative research between children and educators; between children and atelieriste; between educational leaders and their teams; between classroom-based educators and academics.

Documentation as progettazione

  • Documentation guiding the design process (that is progettazione).
  • Developing research questions; intentional observation; interpretation and re-launching projects.
  • Advocating for Image of Child (children’s voice and thinking) and the hundred languages.