Ann Pelo presents - Speaking the Languages of Art: Slowing Down to Listen and Connect

Date: Friday 22nd March 2024 - 9.30am - 3.30pm

Drawing and painting are experiences and explorations of life, of the senses, and of meanings. They are an expression of urgency, desires, reassurances, research, hypotheses, constructions, and inventions.

Loris Malaguzzi, “From the Beginning of the Atelier to Materials as Languages.”

In the Spirit of the Studio: Learning from the Atelier of Reggio Emilia

We typically associate the arts with beauty, with imagination, with individual expressive creativity. What happens if we re-contextualize the arts as languages that help us become better listeners, more present, attuned to our encounters with the world and with each other? As languages that arise from and sustain our human striving for relationship, for understanding, for becoming always more fully our human selves?

During our day together, we'll take up this way of conceptualizing the arts as representational languages. We'll hear stories that illustrate the ways in which children and practitioners can learn to speak these representational languages. We'll explore art media to strengthen our own competencies. And we'll consider principles that can guide us as we move representational languages to a central place in our teaching and learning. 

Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

Standard 2: Know the content and how to teach.

Standard 3: Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning.

National Quality Standard –

Quality Area 1: Educational program and practice.

Presenter

Ann Pelo

Early childhood professionals are invited to attend a full day session with internationally renowned educator and thinker Ann Pelo.

Ann Pelo is a teacher educator, program consultant, and author whose primary work focuses on reflective pedagogical practice, social justice and ecological teaching and learning, and the art of mentoring. Her work is anchored by a commitment to the right of educators to be intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually engaged by their work. Ann’s offerings to educators are organized around invitations for action and reflection, inwardness and collaboration, and utilize the power of story to bring us into deeper understanding and new questions.