Big News!
I’m celebrating the unveiling of Part One of:
Seeing Young Children With New Eyes:
What we’ve learned from Reggio Emilia about children and ourselves
This section explores The Image of the Child, and will be followed by several more sections, which we’ll put on this website over the next six months.
For now, you can download the PDF version to your computer, and when the whole book is up, we’ll make it available for your electronic book reader.
Leslie and I are interested in feedback from our readers, and hope to hear from you.
May your teaching and parenting bring you nothing but joy!
Sydney Gurewitz Clemens and Leslie Gleim
See what they’re saying about our book:
Children of Incarcerated Parents Resources Newsletter, 4/04/12 “BRAVO to long-time SFCCIPP member Sydney for producing this free resource.”
Dear Sydney and Leslie
I have just finished reading part one and have gained so much – and been so challenged and have plenty to reflect on. I have been thinking of the Image of the Child in our own context and in my own practice and part one has helped crystallise my thoughts in so many ways. Congratulations, I can’t wait for the next instalment.
Leslie, you will be interested to know that I have just come back from taking a group of 21 other South Africans to attend the International Study Group to Reggio Emilia and I am convinced that their approach to children will be forever changed. So, dreams can become reality! We are also in the throes of arranging our next SA conference on the Reggio approach (0n 26 – 28 June 2012) - like last year’s conference it will be at our school where our documentation of our collaboration with you and MPI on the Wind Project is still proudly displayed.
How encouraging for both of you to know that you are influencing educational practice so many thousands of miles away!
Take care.
Fond regards,
Tessa Browne
HOD Pre-Primary
South Africa
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Welcome to my website.
I hope you'll find everything you may want to use here: articles, my c.v. (résumé), sample workshop offerings, information about my books, and more.
My contact information is at the top of every page.
Objective
At this time in my life, my objective is to be of maximum help for teachers, parents, and other caregivers of young children in two major areas:
1) Creative Arts
First, helping children express themselves freely and joyously in the arts: music (both instrumental and vocal) dance (of all sorts), stories (listening to them and telling them) painting, drawing, sculpting, modeling, working in wire, in collage ...
See this example
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2) Children Under Stress
Second, helping children through the very hard stresses they must
face: parents in prison, death and dying,
divorce, national horrors (September 11, earthquakes, bombings,
hurricanes, the Challenger explosion, and whatever is coming) and
the smaller stresses as well (first day of school, moving from one
home/community to another, sibling conflict, etc.).
Discussing the News with 3 to 7-year-olds
The first and second areas are deeply connected. We all go through
much stress in our lives and if we have the means to represent our
experiences and express our emotions through the arts, we can often
balance ourselves with wise support from our peers, our parents and our teachers.
