2012
-CCI-seminar De Competentiecirkel (Maart)
-European Seminar for Trainers:Inclusion in practice (Mei)
-Management Kinderopvangcongres (Mei)
-Conference ISSA, DECET and Open Academie Step by Step Croatia (Oktober)
CCI-seminar De Competentiecirkel
European Seminar for Trainers: Inclusion in practice: Implementing Equity & Respect for Diversity in Early Childhood Settings
Workshop II: Are you a researcher? Professionals become researchers
Ana del Barrio Saiz, Bureau MUTANT
Management Kinderopvangcongres
Ede (De Reehorst), 24 mei
Tijdens het Management kinderopvangcongres van Elsevier op 24 mei 2012 zal de publicatie ‘Samen Verschillend’ worden gepresenteerd en aangeboden.
Samen Verschillend. Pedagogisch kader diversiteit in kindercentra 0-13 jaar. Keulen, A. van, Singer, E. m.m.v. A. del Barrio Saiz, C.de Leve, (2012). Reed Elsevier: Maarssen.
Conference ISSA, DECET and Open Academy Step by Step Croatia ‘Co-construction Professional Learning towards Quality, Equity and Respect for Diversity in ECEC
15 - 17 October, 2012, Opatija, Croatia
Workshop I: Sustainable learning in a professional learning community personal, team and childcare centre
Ana del Barrio Saiz en Anke van Keulen, Bureau MUTANT
Workshop II: The educator as researcher: continuous learning between theory and practice
Anke van Keulen en Ana del Barrio Saiz, Bureau MUTANT
2011
- Bkk Regionale bijeenkomsten (OKtober en November)
- Conference Honoring the Child, Honoring Equity (November)
- Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education (Oktober)
- ISSA Thematic Meeting on Professionalism in ECD (September)
- UNA Biennial Conference (Mei)
- Congres Management Kinderopvang (Mei)
- Congres Kinderopvang (April)
BKK Regionale bijeenkomsten:
Amsterdam (27 okt.), Rotterdam (22 nov.), Zwolle (1 nov.), Eindhoven (8 nov.)
en Arnhem (24 nov.)
Workshop: 'Permanent leren als team. Methodiek voor een lerende organisatie'
Ana del Barrio en Anke van Keulen, Bureau MUTANT
Conference ‘Honoring the child, Honoring Equity: inspiring change(s): insights, challenges, hopes and actions’
Equity and Childhood Program, Melbourne Graduate School of Education’s Youth Research Centre (YRC)
18th-19th November 2011
Presentation: Childcare centers and schools as space for democratic practice –
Think big, act small!
Ana del Barrio, Bureau MUTANT and Kylie Smith, Equity and Childhood Program (YRC)
19th Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education
University of East London, 25th-29th October 2011
'Politics of Care: Sharing Knowledges, Love and Solidarity
Presentation: Childcare centers and schools as space for democratic practice –
Think big, act small!
Anke van Keulen & Ana del Barrio, Bureau MUTANT
ISSA Thematic Meeting
(International Step by Step Association. Quality Care and Education for all)
Bled (Slovenia), 21-23 September
‘On Professionalism in ECD: inspiring concepts, approaches and perspectives’
Presentation: Building Professional Communities in ECEC settings in the Netherlands.
Workshop: Exploring spaces for dialogue: here & now’
Ana del Barrio, Bureau MUTANT
Het jaarcongres Management Kinderopvang
Ede, 24 mei 2011
‘Van papier naar praktijk. Implementatie van nieuw beleid’
Lezing: Implementeren en dan?
Ana del Barrio Training & Consulting
Er is een lerende organisatie nodig om implementatie van beleid levend te houden en te verankeren. Vele pedagogisch medewerkers vragen zich af, wat het ingezette beleid met hen en hun proces als medewerkers te maken heeft. We bieden 8 instrumenten aan om samenwerking en eigenaarschap van beleid te bevorderen en het teamproces te kunnen begeleiden, met als doel de professionaliteit en kwaliteit van kindercentra te waarborgen. Een onderzoekende houding blijkt een sleutelcompetentie op individueel en teamniveau te zijn: waar staan we samen voor en wat doen we in de praktijk? Bereiken we alle kinderen? Er is reflectie nodig: zelfreflectie, teamreflectie en kritische reflectie. Beleid in kindercentra te implementeren heeft begeleiding nodig die medewerkers inspireert en enthousiasmeert voor de uitvoering van hun pedagogische opdracht. Een lerende organisatie creëert condities voor dialoog in teams. De instrumenten die we aanbieden zijn samen met het veld en met internationale ondersteuning ontwikkeld en staan beschreven in de recente publicatie Permanent leren. Van zelfreflectie naar teamreflectie (Van Keulen & del Barrio Saiz, 2010).
Presentation: Childcare centers and schools as space for democratic practice –
Think big, act small!
Anke van Keulen & Ana del Barrio, Bureau MUTANT
In order for young children to learn a democratic way of life, they need to have the opportunities to practise this way of thinking and acting with peers and adults. Childcare centres, schools and other community settings can provide these important learning opportunities. This was the starting point for the project, ‘The childcare centre and school as space for democratic practice’ (2009-20011), which is being lead by Bureau MUTANT and Eduniek in the Netherlands, with research support from the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood at the University Melbourne in Australia. The Bernard van Leer Foundation supported the project.
The key aim of this action-training research project is to create spaces where every child, educator and manager has a voice and are listened to and young children are taken seriously as citizens in the here and now. For this aim four large childcare providers and two integrated schools in multi-ethnical areas in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and Veghel have been participating in this project over the past two years. Action research is a way to change social practices, by systematically reflecting - doing and reflecting again. Educators have been encouraged to reflect critically on their practice and to trust in children’s competencies. Educators and managers were introduced to an action research cycle in the first year, by taken them step by step trough the four phases of the cycle: choosing a topic, which they would like to change in their practice and to work /experiment during the project (phase 1); planning the change, which are the first steps/activities, what is needed, who will be involved (phase 2); creating the change together with children and documenting the process and the results (phase 3); sharing what has been learnt and reflecting on it (phase 4), in order to elaborate new (action-research) questions to improve the praxis . The university of Melbourne supervised and evaluated the research section through two surveys at the beginning and the end of the action research cycle. Pedagogical themes and practices being promoted are participation and decision-making, responsibility for the group and community, conflict solving and respect for diversity.
In the presentation we will share the emerging results: the impact on the children, educators and participating organisations. The results show that children’s sense of responsibility and their autonomy has increased. Creativity and problem solving has also been enhanced. They have also improved their listening skills and their willingness to help each other. Social solidarity is valued. Children feel welcome and respected – they matter. Children also discover that there are positive expectations of them, in relation to themselves and to others. Educators have extended their capacity to critically reflect on their understandings of children’s capacities and their role in supporting democratic practice in the everyday classroom which has brought new enthusiasm and engagement with children and co-educators.
Het jaarcongres Kinderopvang
Ede, 29 april 2011
‘Pedagogisch kader: Samen verschillend’
Wij zijn samen verschillend, ook in ons team. Hoe kun je als team omgaan met diversiteit en van elkaar leren? Wat heb je daarvoor nodig? We bieden instrumenten aan om reflectie, permanent leren en samenwerking te bevorderen.