Online Symposium with Reggio Children

REAIE is delighted to announce Maddalena Tedeschi, Pedagogista and Sara De Poi, Atelierista, colleagues who work directly with the Municipal schools in Reggio Emilia, as the 2024 Symposium speakers.

Much work has been undertaken in Reggio Emilia around building our understandings of the language of drawing as a communicative form of expression for young children.

Elena Corte, Atelierista, Municipal Infant Toddler Centres and Preschools Reggio Emilia, proposed Drawing is one of the many languages that children carry with them…a natural language that continuously mixes with all the other languages. 

The 2024 Symposium dialogue sessions will support deepened understandings of the significance of the language of drawing, making reference to the Exhibition titled The Pleasures of Drawing – the visual thinking of children.

About the Presenters:

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.

PLEASE NOTE:

• Please ensure a personal email address is used when registering (and note these registration details) to ensure you receive the links to view the presentations.
• The presentations on Saturday 22 June, 2024 are pre-recorded and will be available for viewing until Monday 22 July, 2024. The recordings will be accessible from the participants’ personal area on www.reggiochildren.it. Instructions on how to access these recordings will be provided to all registered participants via the email address used when registering.
• Recordings will be available from Saturday 22 June, 2024 until Monday 22 July, 2024. This time period is not negotiable under any circumstances. If you are unable to view the presentations on the scheduled date or wish to rewatch the presentations, please do so within this timeframe. Any requests for extensions will not be possible.
• Presentations are for individual use and are not to be shared.
• The LIVE INTERACTIVE ENCOUNTER to be held on Friday 12 July, 2024 WILL NOT be recorded. The link to participate in this session will be accessible through the participants personal area on www.reggiochildren.it.

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