Enhancing and Expanding Listening Through Pedagogical Documentation

• In Event: Roundtable Session 57
  In Roundtable Session: Listening to Student Voices

Abstract

   Within the context of Reggio Emilia philosophy (Malaguzzi, 1998) pedagogical documentation is understood as one important and effective tool for listening to children and uncovering their thoughts, concerns, ideas, theories and understandings. This paper explores the practice of documentation and considers how different tools (written transcription, audio recording, photography and video) affect what we hear and how we interpret it.

Author

• Winifred Hunsburger, The Bishop Strachan School