Mara Krechevsky is a senior researcher at Project Zero (PZ) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. For over 30 years, Mara has conducted educational research at PZ, including directing the Making Learning Visible (MLV) Project, an investigation into documenting and assessing individual and group learning in U.S. classrooms from preschool to high school. MLV is based on collaborative research with educators from the municipal preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy. Currently, Mara works on the Pedagogy of Play Project, a collaboration with the Lego Foundation, to develop a pedagogy of play from early childhood through middle school, and Cultivating Civic and Creative Capacities, a collaboration with the Columbus Museum of Art to extend its Teaching for Creativity framework to the civic realm. She also co-leads the Children Are Citizens Project with Ben Mardell and Jim Reese. Mara has worked with hundreds of teachers and administrators in the U.S. and abroad on creating powerful learning environments for children and adults. She has authored or co-authored seven books and over 30 articles and book chapters. Her most recent book, co-authored with Mardell, Rivard, and Wilson is Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools.
Venue:
English Schools Foundation
25 / F 1063 Kings Road,
Quarry Bay, Hong Kong.
8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Registration at 8.00 am
on the 15 January 2022.
How can we create a culture of playful learning for adults as well as children? In this workshop, participants will deepen their understanding of how an inquiry-oriented approach to teaching can foster playful learning for children as well as themselves. Participants will engage in a hands-on activity to explore the role of “pedagogical documentation” (a core component of the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education) in understanding and promoting children’s learning through play. Participants will also receive a set of tools for supporting inquiry in their own settings.
