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Learning is a process of constant communication and inclusive exchange. Embracing children and teachers as active agents and collaborative participants in the learning process requires a new conversation about children, childhood and education.
This conference offers the recognition of agency and participation as important concepts for international educators and schools to consider. It aims to stimulate a conversation that is founded on the fundamental rights of children. It will explore participation and agency as central forces that activate learning in the early years, explored through four different lenses. During the conference delegates will have the opportunity to hear all four keynote presentations and then select two 'deep dive' workshops where ideas will be exchanged and thinking stimulated about agency and participation through different lenses and perspectives. |
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"Learning is not the transmission of a defined body of knowledge, what Malaguzzi refers to as a 'small' pedagogy. It is constructive, the subject constructing her or his own knowledge - Butal Waysin
Democratic relationships with others and being open to different ways of seeing.
From this perspective, learning is a process of constructing, testing and reconstructing theories, constantly creating new knowledge. Teachers as well as children are constantly learning.
Learning itself is a subject for constant research, and as such, must be made visible."
Carla Rinaldi & Peter Moss. Children in Europe, 2004. |
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| Thread 1: Participation & Playful Inquiry |
| The Power of Playful Inquiry |
Matt Karlsen and Susan MacKay
By Opal School |
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| Thread 2: Participation & Agency |
| Young Children as Agentic Learners |
| Anne van Dam |
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| Thread 3: Participation & Learning Environments |
| Encountering the Third Teacher: Exploring the Agency of Learning Environments |
| Fiona Zinn |
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| Thread 4: Participation through Reading & Writing |
| Nurturing Young Readers and Writers |
| Matt Glover |
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Venue:
Gems World Academy, Dubai
Al Barsha South
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
+971 (0) 4 373-6373
8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Registration at 8.00 am
on the 22nd January 2021. |
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| INVESTMENT |
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USD 750 Early Bird Offer 1st June 2020
USD 790 Closing Date 1st December 2020 |
| INCLUDES: Certificate of Participation for 16 Professional Development hours, Lunch and 2 coffee breaks. |
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| Upcoming Workshops |
| Enhancing Learners Agency |
| - By Anne Van Dam |
20th - 21st February 2021
Mumbai |
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| Learner Agency Through Personal Inquiry |
| - By Kath Murdoch |
12th - 13th March 2021
Dubai |
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| The Power of Playful Learning in Early Childhood Classrooms |
| - By Megina Baker, Mara Krechevsky, Ben Mardell & Jennifer Oxman Ryan |
15th - 16th January 2022
Hong Kong |
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