Reggio Emilia and Open Space with Children

[ashley cooper]

A quick thought on the subject:

I think 3-5 year olds are the masters of the Law of Two Feet. 

blessings,
ashley

On 8/7/05, luca audrey niko daniel <lebelland at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> Hi Kim,
> I'm reading the replies to your first question with interest as this is
> all new to me but your second question I can offer something to. Perhaps
> you are expressing the dawning realization that OST and home need not be
> separate and that when considering your children, the default option for
> their learning goes on outside the home. There is plenty of thinking
> and writing on this topic, it runs very deep in modern western culture.
> However, for a mother, there is the question of alignment, continuity
> and sustainable integrated value. Our family are home educators,
> unschoolers and spaceniks. This works, as it always does, and worth
> every single moment. Plenty of topics, endless opportunity and with
> that it just grows. Open space within the family.
> Best wishes
> Daniel LeBel
> Westport NZ
> 
> 
> Kim Willing wrote:
> 
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > Well this is syncronicity. Whilst attempting to overcome a bad cold
> > and take a desperately needed break from my 2 children (1 is 20 months
> > and the other just over 3 years old) I was lying (hiding) in bed
> > reading Harrison's book on peace and wondering how it is I could
> > possibly adopt an Open Space mentality in the care of my kids!
> > Preface this with the fact that I am operating in my own facilitation
> > business (mostly Open Space), aiming to work an average of 2 days a
> > month and spending the rest of the time being mum.
> >
> > I am currently in the process of preparing myself to conduct another 2
> > Open Space gatherings later in the month. In this role I have found
> > my experience of Open Space and of myself to be calm, bold, completely
> > unflappable and grounded........ but then I come home to my mum role
> > and it seems the opposite is true! I am very challenged here! Thank
> > goodness the people sitting in the circle, can't see what was going on
> > before I left home! (Something like changing roles from cruel
> > autocrat to Buddhist monk - I'm sure it's not quite this bad all the
> > time but it is winter and I am feeling a little run down!). Somehow I
> > seem to be running out of space at home. In the grand plan to have a
> > regular break from kiddlies, my 2 attend a creche in Hobart every
> > Thursday. I knew that they used a Reggio Emilia approach there but
> > didn't have a clue what it meant - only that I like (and the kids
> > like) they're experience there. So, I am excited and relieved to
> > discover it has links with Open Space and would like to:
> >
> > a) find out more about it - can anyone refer me to anything here (if
> > and when I get time to read it) and
> > b) post this question from a mum who feels like her experience of Open
> > Space is far from home - How do we do it? (ie: with toddlers, 24hrs a
> > day, at home?)
> >
> > Love from Hobart town.
> >
> > Kim.
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