June 2012
11 posts
Touching the border between science and magic
At the NAREA conference, Tiziana Filippini shows how learning experiences in the Reggio Emilia approach touches the border between science and magic. Can you imagine what schools would look like if this were the case? Can you imagine how children would interact with the environment?
The Aesthetic Experience: Being Fully Alive
The Aesthetic Experience
“The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak, when you are present in the current moment, when you are resonating with the excitement of this thing that you are experiencing, when you are fully alive.”
This is Sir Ken Robinson’s definition of the...