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Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child (Auckland)
October 10 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$80.00
Thursday 10 October, 5:00pm-8:00pm
26 Yates Road, Mangere East, Auckland
With Professor Alison Clark and Jacqui Lees
Award-winning author, Alison Clark is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of South-Eastern Norway and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. She will be visiting Aotearoa New Zealand for a short time in October, don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity !
Join Alison and Jacqui for the opportunity to explore ideas about a Slow pedagogy and how this relates to deepening children’s connections to place over time.
Slow knowledge and the unhurried child
Session One, with Alison Clark will introduce key themes from her two year study: ‘Slow knowledge and the unhurried child’ that explored the relationship with time in ECEC and draws attention to the importance of slow practices. What might a timeful early childhood setting look like? How does this relate to a pedagogy of listening and what is the particular contribution that connections to place bring to thinking about ‘slow’?
Deepening connections with people and place
In Session Two, Jacqui Lees will present her Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) research project, looking at how early childhood centres support children to experience and learn about their local area, its stories, and cultural meanings. The presentation will look at how the teaching team from Pakuranga Baptist Kindergarten used the pedagogy of listening and an unhurried approach to learning to support children to deepen their understandings about a Taniwha that is part of their local Tainui stories.
