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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">A lovely
item related to this, on <SPAN style="COLOR: black">philosophical inquiry in
elementary schools, can be seen on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
website. </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">See:
<B>Encounter: 17 July 2005 - Is Small Really Lost?</B> <BR><BR>for
the print version of the story <A
href="http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/enc/stories/s1415393.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/enc/stories/s1415393.htm</A></SPAN><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">The
audio will also be available for about another week on <A
href="http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/enc/default.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/enc/default.htm</A></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Here
you will find precisely the kind of facilitation skills listed by Ashley:
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">"...
how to follow the flow of attention, adding upon what was emerging, inviting
depth from that which was present.' </SPAN><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">being
practised by the children as well as their teachers. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">With
love<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Alan
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Kong</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mail.easilyamazed@gmail.com
href="mailto:mail.easilyamazed@gmail.com">ashley cooper</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 06, 2005 1:01
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: OSLIST Digest - 3 Aug 2005
to 4 Aug 2005 - Special issue (#2005-210) What are the possibilities of using
Open Space Technology in the elementary school classroom?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi Pat,<BR><BR>I was a teacher at a school which claimed to use
the Reggio approach. A major problem that I found was that it was
difficult for many teachers and administrators to adopt this approach at a
core level. They liked how it sounded on paper, but did not know (and were not
appropriately trained) how to follow the flow of attention, adding upon what
was emerging, inviting depth from that which was present.<BR><BR>I now wonder
if training in OS principles would help to facilitate the degree of awareness
that is also necessary in the Reggio approach.<BR><BR>Thanks for making that
link for me.<BR><BR>Ashley<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 8/5/05, <B class=gmail_sendername>Pat
Black</B> <<A
href="mailto:patblack@paulbunyan.net">patblack@paulbunyan.net</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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have used Open Space quite a bit in the classroom at all ages and it has
always worked. There is an interesting infant/ toddler care and
preprimary municipal funded education system in Italy with quite a bit of
history that is operated on self-organizing and open space
principles. It is Reggio Emilia. The Hundred Languages
of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach edited by Carolyn Edwards
might be of interest to those interested in this topic. There are
Reggio Approach schools all of the world at this point since they have been
around for some 40 odd years.<BR><BR>Pat
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