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Rethinking Observation: Promoting Reflective Practice

Keywords:

Adult role

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Observation

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Pedagogical documentation

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PI 2022-23

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Planning

A study which asked practitioners to use the Froebelian principles to adapt their approach to observation. Participants contemplated previously published observations and were asked to ...

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Children and instrumental music

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Children's perspectives

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Greece

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International

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Music

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Nature

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PI-2022

An observation and participatory observation study where a two-and-a-half-year-old child chooses and builds with my help, a musical instrument from everyday and recyclable materials, which ...

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Outdoor and free-flow play at non-formal educational settings

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Children's rights

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Clay

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Environment

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Ethnicity

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Featured project

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Free play

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Freedom with guidance

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Gardens

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Greece

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International

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Loose parts

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Nature

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Outdoors

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PI-2022

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Play

An action research study of how we could deliver small workshops for children 4-6 years old with no detailed planning, only by preparing the environment ...

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Two hours outdoors, two hours indoors free play.

Keywords:

Environment

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Free play

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Greece

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International

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Learning

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Nature

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Outdoors

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PI-2022

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Symbolic play and representation

An observation study of how a three-year-old child uses open-ended materials while playing outdoors in comparison to indoors, as well as the place where she ...

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Freedom with guidance, under pressure

Keywords:

Adult role

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Behaviour

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Expressive arts

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Freedom with guidance

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Greece

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Inclusion

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International

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Nature

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Painting

An auto-ethnographic exploration of my learning about freedom with guidance under pressure

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Exploring Clay in an Early Years Setting

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Clay

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Creativity

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Expressive arts

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Language and oracy

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Literacy

This project explored the open-ended use of clay as a resource which promotes symbolic representation which Froebel believed to be fundamental to the learning of ...

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A Practical Project: Taking Clay Outdoors.

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Clay

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Environment

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Outdoors

This assignment reflects on a project carried out to take clay outdoors and supplement the clay using natural resources through the use of Froebelian principles ...

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Bringing animals into the life of the nursery

Keywords:

Animals

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Freedom with guidance

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Nature

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Relationships

A project introducing guinea pigs into the nursery and exploring a Froebelian perspective on the most appropriate way to do this.

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Zpíváme si pro radost

Keywords:

Adult role

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Czech Republic

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International

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Music

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Songs

Studie o dětech předškolního věku (3 – 6 let) v mateřské škole, zda projekt podpoří vnitřní motivaci dítěte ke zpěvu při spontánní hře. – A study ...

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The Wonderful World Outdoors

Keywords:

Environment

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Gardens

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Outdoors

This was a practical project of further developing the outdoor environment to promote challenge, risky play, independence, along with confidence in rich open-ended play.

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Impact of freedom with guidance

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PI-2022

An observational study of the impact of “freedom with guidance” and how staff effectively, plan, support and facilitate this principle in our setting. To build ...

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How do we ‘hear’ our children ‘voices’?

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Adult role

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Children's perspectives

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Inclusion

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Observation

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PI-2022

A study to audit how we ‘hear’ our children’s ‘voice’. Taking a critical look at how we ‘listen’, observe and use the findings especially in ...

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