The environment as a “third educator”

Focusing attention on the spaces and environments where educational relations take on life and children’s learning is realised is very recent and has not yet crossed the preschool threshold. It has become something of a catchphrase to say the environment is also an educator. So what are the characteristics, spatial organisations, materials, and “languages” that give quality to spaces and environments in infant-toddler centres and preschools? Using images to illustrate their theoretical theses, teachers and pedagogistas will offer a deeper exploration of this theme.

Trusting the environment with an educational role means: communicating to children our faith in their capacities for self-organisation and learning, promoting their autonomous research journeys, giving value to and respecting different times and ways of experiencing situations, and generating relational wellbeing.

Using visual documentation the webinar will illustrate different forms of spaces, furnishings, materials, and contexts that experience in Reggio Emilia infant-toddler centres and preschools has developed over time so that environments can be a “third educator”.

New for this season: on purchasing your live webinar you will now be able to replay and watch it for a limited time after the event.

- Q&A with teachers, educators, pedagogistas, and atelieristas who work, or have worked, in Reggio Emilia’s infant-toddler centres and preschools, and with Reggio Children

- Reggio Children Webinar certificate of participation

- membership of the Reggio Emilia Approach digital community

- simultaneous translation into English

- bibliography

LANGUAGE

Webinars will be conducted in Italian with simultaneous translation into English. Select your preferred language, Italian or English, by clicking “INTERPRETATION” on the Webinar platform.

TIME

All Webinar times are given in Central European Summer Time (CEST), which is local time in Italy. Please be careful to calculate what time this corresponds to in your own location before deciding which Webinar to sign up for.

WEBINAR LINKS

One hour before your chosen webinar we will send a link to the email address provided during enrolment.

You can also connect to your webinar, one hour before the start, by clicking “connect” in your reserved area on the relevant webinar page.

If you do not find an email link to your webinar meeting in your Inbox, please check the spam, social, and promotions sections of your post.

WEBINAR PLATFORM

We will be using Zoom video conferencing for all the webinars. If you are using a phone or a tablet please download the Zoom app onto your device.

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DEVICES

We would advise you to use a laptop, desktop, or tablet rather than a phone. The webinars are very visual.

COPYRIGHT & PRIVACY

Under no circumstances may photographs or videos of speakers and their multimedia documentation/presentations be taken.

Educational material (multi media documentation in PowerPoint, video recordings etc.) presented during the Webinar, cannot be ceded, either to organizers or to participants.

READING LIST

A bibliography of reference reading material will be published the day after your Webinar.  You can find the reading list  in your reserved area, in WEBINARS AND WEB CONFERENCES, under the webinar you attended, in RESOURCES.  

CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE

The day after the event you will receive a Certificate of Attendance for the webinar you have attended in your reserved area. You can find the certificate in WEBINARS AND WEB CONFERENCES, under the webinar you attended, in RESOURCES. 

WEBINAR RECORDING AND REPLAY

Three days after the live event, a recording of the live webinar will be made available in your reserved area, in the section WEBINARS AND WEB CONFERENCES, under RESOURCES on the relevant webinar page. The webinar recording will be available for you to replay and watch for 72 hours.