Inspirational blogs that I follow:
Joyful Learning in the Early Years
Deanna Pecaski McLennan, Ph.D., is an educator in Southern Ontario who is greatly influenced by the Reggio Emilia approach to Early Childhood Education. She believes in a play-based, exploratory, democratic learning environment and has spent much time reading, researching, and writing about these various issues.
Rethinking the Learning Environment
The learning environment is often viewed as "the third teacher": it can either enhance learning, optimizing students' potential to respond creatively and meaningfully, or detract from it. Researchers and practitioners in a wide range of disciplines, including early childhood education, developmental education, psychology, cognitive science, and school architecture and design, have come to understand that a key to learning in today's world is the social space in which it occurs, more than the physical space (Fraser, 2012; Helm et al., 2007; OWP/P Architects et al., 2010).
Fairydust Blog
"Our business is built on the passion for the wonder and magic of early childhood. We believe young children have the right to play, to be collaborators in learning, and to dream."
Favourite Books:
This booklet documents our school district's collaborative inquiry project looking at how Reggio-inspired practices can inform and enhance primary mathematics teaching and learning.
Loose Parts Inspiring Young Children
A book to empower children's creativity, enhance play and encourage problem solving especially for early childhood professionals who advocate for play or are Reggio-inspired. Loose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials-acorns, hardware, stones, aluminum foil, fabric scraps, for example-that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play.
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