2024 ONLINE SYMPOSIUM WITH REGGIO CHILDREN
More than a Mark: the joy and complexity of children's graphic languages
Maddalena Tedeschi is a Pedagogista, Responsible for the Complex Organisation Unit of the Istituzione of Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres of Reggio Emilia Municipality, and coordinates the “Diana” municipal preschool. For Reggio Children, she collaborates on realising projects involving publishing, exhibitions, and professional learning, in Italy and abroad.
Degree in Pedagogy, Bologna University, Italy -1981 – 1991 Educator in Reggio Emilia’s municipal “Gianni Rodari” infant-toddler centre and 1991 – , Pedagogista in the Pedagogical Co-ordination of Reggio Emilia Municipality.
Currently, Responsible for the Complex Organisation Unit of the Istituzione of Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, and co-ordinator of the “Diana” municipal preschool.
Themes of special investigation include: educational environments as the design of spaces and new architectures, dietary education in early childhood, projects of educational continuity and relations between preschool and primary school.
Specific areas of Tedeschi’s deeper research on practice/thinking in children’s education include: the construction of scientific thinking in children, the use of digital technology in didactics, the construction of a school curriculum for 0-11 years, processes of evaluation and documentation in learning, environments as learning context, the culture of the atelier.
Member of the Research Group on the use of digital technology in didactics, in collaboration with Reggio Children, and the Milano Bicocca University.
For Reggio Children, Tedeschi collaborates on realising projects involving publishing, and professional learning journeys, through participating in seminars and workshops in Italy and abroad.
Also for Reggio Children, Tedeschi has authored articles and curated exhibitions and publications.
Sara De Poi has been an Atelierista and video documentation maker with Reggio Children since 2005.
For Reggio Children, De Poi collaborates on the realisation of publishing projects, and professional learning journeys, through participating in seminars and workshops in Italy and abroad.
She obtained her degree in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the University of Udine, Italy, in 2003.
In 2004 she participated in Reggio Children’s Master’s course in Professional Development for Atelieristas.
In the years following her degree she continued to deepen her knowledge of the visual languages, with particular emphasis on photography and cinema, through workshops in documentary film-making and courses in professional video montage and editing.
De Poi participates in project groups, and works with audiovisual documentation recordings of experiences realised by children and teachers, including editing, montage, and post-production of documentary material by the Istituzione of Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, and by Reggio Children.
Starting with documentation made in schools, De Poi creates video material for exhibitions, public showings, and communications.
Together with Vea Vecchi and Mirella Ruozzi, she curated the exhibition “A festive thought. Visual metaphor in children’s learning processes”, realised in collaboration with the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
