The right to quality education

Free web conferences promoted by Reggio Children and ALDA

 

We are presenting a series of Webinar initiatives where educational challenges raised by the pandemic crisis can be discussed, together with researchers and specialists, with knowledge and points of view to share. 

Reggio children is interested in calling the international community and the European Institutions in a process of dialogue around the re definition of the role of Education.

We believe that this debate could positively influence the definition of the next EU programming period. 

 

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With the current Covid 19 pandemic and crisis, this activity of physically meeting, generating exchange and relations, has suddenly come to a halt. As a place of education and a forum for ideas our work has been dramatically altered.

The difficulties of providing educational quality in challenging new conditions are very real, and the opportunities Reggio Children could provide for discussion and debate are of particular value at this moment.

The new conditions and the concrete restrictions on people’s freedoms have seriously compromised the possibility of shaping quality educational and pedagogical proposals, as they have been conceived and implemented to date, thus jeopardising the fundamental right of children to discover and research.

In these new and difficult conditions, we trust that the opportunities Reggio Children will be able to offer to the international debate are of particular value.

It is our responsibility as teachers, educators, and researchers, to reflect and work together, to start new processes of re-signification that make sense of our present conditions and circumstances, continuing to be inspired by children. 

 

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Friday 17th July, h. 11.00am – 1.00pm (Rome time)

Supporting Parents & families as a way to combat poverty and inequality

Languages: Italian / English

 

We thank you for having reached us and for the interest demonstrated in the web conference programme. We regret to inform you that the conferences are already fully booked.  The seminars will be recorded and uploaded a few days after the live debate. 

You will be able to view the recorded debate from our web site and social network in the next weeks. We invite you, meanwhile, to register to our  "Reggio Emilia Approach digital community" (bottom page)

 

Parenting.

How can we support families and parents in accompanying their children in the process of learning, allowing research and critical observation of the reality that surrounds them? 

How can we new alliances between parents/ educators/ children developing a joint pedagogical function to support and foster discovery processes shaping critical thinking and a trial and error approach to education?

How can we intervene in contexts of great poverty and social inequalities not to hinder the potential of children born and raised in more difficult situations? 

How can we shape educational situations allowing equal opportunities? 

How can we leverage on quality education as a central element to tackle social inequalities?

 

Programme Moderator: 

Claudia Giudici - President, Reggio Children srl

 

Contributions

How to intervene in contexts of great poverty and social inequalities not to hinder the potential of children

Pierfrancesco Majorino - Member of the European Parliament

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Actions taken by families in addressing the COVID era – the need for an investment in quality education starting from an early age

Elizabeth Gosme - COFACE - Family Europe

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The Child Guarantee and  Next Generation EU  as an opportunity to tackle educational challenges 
Christian Morabito - International expert for Save the Children and the European Commission 

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The experience of the Erasmus + Coalition in facing the challenge for a renewed investment in education in the next programming period

Andrea Lapegna - Lifelong Learning Platform  - communication and campaign coordinator 

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Infant Toddler Centres and Preschools as tools against inequalities

Aldo Garbarini - President Gruppo Nazionale Nidi e Infanzia

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The right to education while facing a health emergency

Elena Turola- Parent participating to the Reggio Emilia “Dialogues around School” Group 

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Social inequalities in accessing ECEC services

Emanuele Pavolini - Full Professor in Economic Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Macerata (Italy)

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Perspective and visions from Spain from Spain

Alfredo Hoyuelos - Atelierista teacher of the Infant Toddler centers, Municipality of Pamplona, former director of the educational services of the municipality of Pamplona

 

 

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Monday 20th July 2020, h.11.00am – 1.00pm (Rome time)

The role of technologies in learning processes and relational dynamics

Languages: Italian / English

 

We thank you for having reached us and for the interest demonstrated in the web conference programme. We regret to inform you that the conferences are already fully booked.  The seminars will be recorded and uploaded a few days after the live debate. 

You will be able to view the recorded debate from our web site and social network in the next weeks. We invite you, meanwhile, to register to our  "Reggio Emilia Approach digital community" (bottom page)

 

The debate will revolve around how educational projects can change by inserting distance learning or new technologies.

How can we shape new environments offering different invitations to encourage the discovery by children, the autonomous formulation of conjecture connections and a critical and reflective analysis of the proposals? 

How can we accompany adults & parents as well as policymakers to learn about these opportunities for education leveraging the 100 languages approach?

 

Programme Moderator: 

Cristian Fabbi - President Nidi e Scuole d’Infanzia - Istituzione del Comune di Reggio Emilia

 

Contributions

What role do educational policies play in the context of EU strategies – what has  changed after the pandemic period?

On. Victor Negrescu - Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur on the EU Education Strategy

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An international overview of  the strategies for adopting technologies in early childhood education: the main findings

Yuri Belfali - Head Division ECEC OCSE

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Experience, empathy and communication in COVID-19 time. A neuroscientific perspective

Vittorio Gallese - Department of Medicine & Surgery Unit of Neuroscience, Full Professor of Psychobiology, Department of Medicine & Surgery - Full Professor of Experimental Aesthetics, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK 

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The EU response to digital education – Tackling the Covid-19 gaps

Rehana Schwinninger-Ladak  - Head of Unit " Interactive technologies, Digital for Culture and Education " European Commission, DG Communications Network, Content and Technology

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Going digital beyond Aristotle. A new space-time for learning

Stefano Moriggi - Università Degli Studi Di Milano Bicocca Research fellow Methodologies of Teaching and Special Education - Professor for Digital Education-  Dipartimento Educazione e Scienze Umane- Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

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0-6 and beyond the overview of the Italian case in the introduction of new technologies and today's debate on distance learning

Daniela Marocchi - Childhood committee - Italian Ministry for Education

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Digital connections for the development of skills and competences

Maria Giuseppina Grasselli -  preschool and primary school teacher at the Loris Malaguzzi International Center - Galileo Galilei School district  and collaborator of Reggio Children Digital 

 

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Wednesday 29th July2020 , h. 11.00am – 1.00pm (Rome time)

The pedagogy of relations - socializing and shaping communities

Languages: Italian / English

 

We thank you for having reached us and for the interest demonstrated in the web conference programme. We regret to inform you that the conferences are already fully booked.  The seminars will be recorded and uploaded a few days after the live debate. 

You will be able to view the recorded debate from our web site and social network in the next weeks. We invite you, meanwhile, to register to our  "Reggio Emilia Approach digital community" (bottom page)

 

Education is a relational process. It is built in the relationship and promotes the construction of social relationships, fundamental for the development of personal identity, learning skills, a sense of belonging to a community, the idea of citizenship.

How can we activate this relationship process in changing contexts?
This study also addresses the issue of schools and educational institutions as realities embedded in a city fabric rich in entities which can in various forms shape pedagogical proposals.

How can we start taking advantage of these opportunities?

 

Programme Moderator: 

Mrs Antonella Valmorbida - Secretary General of the European Association for Local Democracy - ALDA

 

Contributions

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On. Brando Benifei – Member of the European Parliament

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How to establish and maintain quality relations in educational contexts, thus shaping the community engagement starting from the early age:  experiences in light of the changing possibilities of educational institutions

Michel Vandenbroeck – Ghent University

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The experience of Bydgoszcz

Imisława Bugeja - Member of the ALDA Governing Board, Principal of the Gen. Ryszard Kukliński International School of Bydgoszcz -PL

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Shaping educational communities

Carla Rinaldi – Fondazione Reggio Children - Centro Loris Malaguzzi 

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Tony Pelosato - Anthisne (Belgium), Deputy in charge for Education and early childhood in Anthisne

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Active citizenship education

Netherlands Helsinky Committee

 

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The Reggio Emilia Approach® is an educational philosophy based on the image of a child with strong potentialities for development and a subject with rights, who learns through the hundred languages belonging to all human beings, and grows in relations with others.

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