Upcoming events:

REAIE has developed a new series of four webinars which will explore in more detail the complexity of the role of the atelierista, clays’ potentialities, possibilities of light and how we should never underestimate the potential of babies. Join us from your workplace or the comfort of your own home. These webinars will be recorded (more…)

The atelier brings the strength and joy of the unexpected and the uncommon to the process of learning. It supports a conceptual change that comes from looking through a poetic lens at everyday reality. (Vecchi, 1995 p. 303). This webinar will focus on the complexity of the role of the atelierista within an early learning setting. (more…)

Encounters between children and materials are generally extremely rich in suggestive qualities, memories, and meanings… (Vecchi, 2010, p. 32). This webinar will focus on clay’s potentialities, interweaving the practical and the possible, exploring what this enticing material has to evoke in children and adult’s learning. As Cathy Phillips (Creative Arts Specialist) and Kirsty Liljegren engage in (more…)

Light and certain light phenomena are central protagonists and highlight the extent to which expressiveness and beauty can accompany an understanding of scientific thinking. Science is almost always missing from educational work with small children or taught in ways that are mostly to do with facts the teacher wants children to learn. It is a (more…)

Wonder as the genesis of learning.  We should never underestimate the potential of babies and their creative strategies of thinking of learning given the right conditions. This webinar will explore the statement that ‘wonder is the genesis of learning’ by exploring the concepts and values of the image of the baby, planning for babies and (more…)