Documentation in any form or stage of development is most welcome at our sessions. It is a very kind act to share documentation to allow participants the opportunity to discuss and expand their understandings of thinking and learning while offering you support for your work. Please feel welcome to attend with or without documentation.

Documentation in any form or stage of development is most welcome at our sessions. It is a very kind act to share documentation to allow participants the opportunity to discuss and expand their understandings of thinking and learning while offering you support for your work. Please feel welcome to attend with or without documentation. Download and read the reflection letter from Ellen by clicking here. Please RSVP to attend. Powered by Eventbrite

Happy New Year everyone! Our next York University/Ontario Reggio Association pedagogical documentation study session is set for Saturday, January 28, 2017, from 10:00 - 12. We will meet once again in Room 283B in Winters College at York. There will be signs posted on the front doors of the college to guide you to the room. These sessions are offered so that people that work with documentation may be supported in their efforts. People that attend come from a variety…

Everyone interested in documentation is invited to attend. Please bring your documentation in any stage of development. It is helpful to have the documentation printed in order to study it closely. You are most welcome to attend without documentation if you would like to learn more about the study processes we use in these meetings. Although the event is free, please register through Eventbrite. If you register and then are unable to attend please unregister as we have a limited…

Hello friends and colleagues! Our next Ontario Reggio Association/York University documentation study session will be held March 25, from 10 -12, at our usual meeting place: Room 283B, Winters College, York University. There will be a sign posted on the doors by the parking lot on the south side of the building to guide you to the room. These study sessions are offered as a support for educators working with documentation in their practice and are open to everyone interested in having their own documentation…

Dear friends and colleagues, Several of us, educators representing child care, school boards, and graduate students, spent a pleasant Saturday morning together recently at our York University/Ontario Reggio Association documentation study session. We had the opportunity to read documentation together that included children sharing ideas of assembling materials together as a very nice sample of the empathy and the sensitivity of children working in their many zones of proximal development found in groups as they were learning with each other.…

Hello everyone! We are planning for our final documentation study session of this school year on Saturday, May 27, 2017, in our usual location Room 283B, Winters College, York University, at our usual time 10:00 – 12:00. Please feel welcome to attend with documentation or without. Last meeting in April was a full house with people attending from child care and classroom settings, along with college and university students, and education administrators. It is fortunate too that some people attended…

Join us for a morning on the farm presentation by Rosalba Bortolotti and cooking demonstration with Emily Richards. Registration fee ($20 for ORA members or $70 for non-members) includes workshop, cooking demo and farm tour experience, refreshments and lunch! Download the event flyer here. Please register through Eventbrite below: Powered by Eventbrite

Encounters with Materials Exhibit: Illustrating moments from a three-year art-based collaborative inquiry into materiality in early childhood education, the Material Encounters exhibit explores materials as encountersand events. It considers what it means to think with things: how each material evokes particular intra-actions and presents particular possibilities among/with/between young children. ORA members are invited to join ORA Board member Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw at the Encounters with Materials Exhibit for a conversation about the installation, from 10am to 12noon at the London Children's…

What does pedagogy mean and what does it do to everyday practice? How might pedagogy serve us to reconfigure practices? And how does pedagogy connect practice to broader societal movements? The term pedagogy is now reaching mainstream usage in early childhood education, and educational contexts more broadly. In early childhood education, this might be due on one hand, to its inclusion in early learning frameworks and on the other, to the growing movement towards reconconceptualizing the field beyond care. Through…

*** SOLD OUT *** Interest in Reggio Emilia’s approach to education has grown in our province in the wake of The Wonder of Learning exhibit. The Ontario Reggio Association is eager to blow on the embers of this interest. We are organizing the registration of participants for the Canadian Study Week in Reggio Emilia, March 11 – 16, 2018 and collaborating with Reggio Children to plan the events for the week. The theme will be Pedagogical Documentation as visible listening: Building…

Encounters with a Pedagogista: Co-labouring Pedagogy as an Ethical Relationship Tiziana Filippini joins us from Reggio Emilia, Italy for a weekend of dialogue. October 12, 13 & 14, 2018   with the participation of Reggio Children and Tiziana Filippini. Members $320.00 & non Members $340.00 The Ontario Reggio Association welcomes you to a reception at the London Children’s Museum on Friday evening, October 12, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.  where there will be an opportunity to engage with a display of pedagogical…