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SUMMARY:'I was born in a cat’s cave.' Working with authorship and imagin
 ation in early childhood outdoor learning - Deb Wilenski and Kate Cowan
DTSTART:20130123T163000Z
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:The forest has always been a place of stories and transformati
 on\, one of our most narrated and mysterious lands.  In this seminar we pr
 esent insights\, experience\, and provocative questions from recent projec
 ts in which nursery and reception age children\, educators\, carers\, and 
 creative practitioners from Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination worked tog
 ether to explore the imaginative and dramatic power of the woods.\nWe offe
 r a practice which connects experiences in the wild to enquiries and meani
 ng-making in the classroom\, and project examples which reveal the outdoor
 s as\n*	a place to develop early communication and literacy\n*	a space for
  intricate non-verbal narratives\n*	a stage for power\, physical daring\, 
 and narratives of bravery\n*	a context for questioning educational relatio
 nships and values.\nWe invite you to consider the fundamental role of chil
 dren’s own storying in their social\, emotional\, and intellectual devel
 opment\, and to re-vision education as a process of exchange between power
 ful and fluent protagonists.\n\nDeb Wilenski is a woodland/outdoor project
 s leader\, Early Childhood educator and consultant\, and creative practiti
 oner working with Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination and Sightlines Initi
 ative. She is inspired by the work of the preschools and infant-toddler ce
 ntres of Reggio Emilia\, the woodland nurseries of Europe and Scandinavia\
 , and by projects which value children as makers of culture and meaning.  
 Kate Cowan is a doctoral student at the Institute of Education\, Universit
 y of London\, focusing on multimodal methodologies for working with video\
 , and its use in Early Years classrooms. Her previous research at the Univ
 ersity of Cambridge explored young children’s communication and represen
 tation from a multimodal perspective\, drawing upon the approach of Reggio
  Emilia. Kate spent several years teaching at a Nursery school in Cambridg
 e\, during which time she coordinated a woodland project in collaboration 
 with CCI.\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room GS4
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