Drawing and Young Children: Re-Connecting With Our Own Poetic Languages

Posted on by Debi Keyte-Hartland

I was privileged last week to be invited to run a workshop about drawing, teaching and young children.  My work began by collecting many different types of drawing media (inks, watercolours, charcoal, soft pastels, oil pastel, pencil crayons of different varieties, aqua crayons, non permanent and permanent markers, graphite, charcoal pencils to name a few.  … Continue reading Drawing and Young Children: Re-Connecting With Our Own Poetic Languages

Technology in Early Childhood Education: Tools and Languages

Posted on by Debi Keyte-Hartland

If we are to develop new pedagogical approaches that value digital and technological ‘tools’ as capable of expressive and creative potential then we must look to the digital landscape as a range of possible languages rather than ‘tools’.  In this, I mean, how can we view digital languages as poetic and aesthetic, as a means … Continue reading Technology in Early Childhood Education: Tools and Languages