How big is the world? part 1

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The slideshows we present are a synthesis of a photo exhibition about Nursery Schools of the city of Piacenza. The exhibition was a result of a training for teachers about documentation material communication. How can we communicate education professionals’ considerations to a non-professional audience? How to avoid any sort of educational jargon? It’s been a challenge to communicate years of experience in early childhood education, pedagocic quality of services, education policies and much more through a synthetic, effective and above all accessibile documentation. This is the reason for which we’ve carefully considered our language, for there’s a close relationship between the way we talk about the world and the way we think about the world: digging into words, cleaning them from any abused technical term help us to re-think our job. Children and the way we engage with them. We simply described what happens in Nursery Schools in the town of Piacenza. www.infanziaineuropa.eu

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HOW BIG IS THE WORLD?

Experiencing nursery school as an adventure

part 1

A short story about Piacenza’s Nursery Schools.Comune di Piacenza

Meeting children

A brand new world:

Children discover a

new place so that

parents must learn to

trust them.

News for the

“housekeepers” too:

meeting children for

the fisrt time or

children transformed

by a summertime.

Habits, uncertainty,

tears, reassuring

voices, caresses: this

is the beginning of a

big adventure.

Our

senses:

a bridge

to the

world.

Hands are our first moving toy.

We watch them shaking in front of us.

Little by little our gestures become self aware.

Powerful and flexible tools

to explore the nearest world: our body.

Ears, hands, mouth, eyes, nose.

We use them to “feel” the world.

They let us meet people and things we

want to experience.

MEETING OBJECTS:

Objects we meet by chance, objects we were looking for.

We can sit and explore them or just keep on doing something else.

Things have a

sort of skin

we can feel:

hot, cold,

smooth,

creased…

Surfaces

sliding on our

fingers.

Colours

surfing on

our eyes.

By our hands we can explore different shapes

but we can create them as well.

they just slip out…

…and sometimes

One finger is enough to

transform them in a

while…

We can submerge ourselves in colours

and enjoy the light creating them.

Keeping coulours in our hands…

…make colours move…

…looking through colours

…creating cloured shapes and replicating them…

Project team:Elisa Danesi, Daniela Giorgi, Anna ModenesiCoordinamento pedagogico Comune di Piacenza

Educational project and exhibition consultants:Piero Sacchetto, educational philosopherMarina Maselli, Pedagogist

Video: CINECLUB PIACENZAVideo editing: Antonio Pizzagalli, Renato Bersani

Thanks to: - Giuseppe Curallo, president of CINECLUB PIACENZA-Educators and staff at the following Nursery Schools: Aquilone Azzurro, Aquilone Giallo, Arcobaleno, Astamblam, Girasole, Girotondo, Pettirosso, Pollicino.-Educators who privided pictures.- Educators and parents which have been interviewed: Araldi Mirella, Bellingeri Gabriella, Capellini Laura Ciavattini Paola, Cornelli Grazia, Gazzola Monica, Granelli Laura, Guarini Lidia, Fermi Francesca, Malchiodi Luisella, Moles Chiara, Paganini Stefano, Pelati Elena, Piga Claudia, Stragliati Elena, Zanni Serena, Gostantini Enzo, Harrak Hakima, Rebecchi Nicoletta.

Exhibition graphics and set up: Studio Etre

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