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Ripples from the Ripple Symposium
Dr Jessica Pitt
The Ripple Symposium was a highlight of 2025 for Magic Acorns. Seeing artists, educators, researchers and policy makers with a passion for Early Years arts…
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Artists
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Beyond Words: A case study in AI-assisted artistic evaluation
Dr Jessica Pitt, Co-Director and Creative Researcher at Magic Acorns
An example of using ‘beyond-words’ methods as evaluation in action After a fruitful end of term reflection session of Music Garden – a 4-year training project…
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Creative training
Research
More-than-human literacies in early childhood
Join us for the next in our popular series of Magic Webinars: More-than-human literacies in early childhood with Professor Abi Hackett Tuesday 21 October 2025,…
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Creative training
Music
Research
Watch. Wait. Wonder: What children teach us through sound
Dr Clare Seymour of diversitybuds
Written by Dr Clare Seymour of diversitybuds I recently had the joy of attending a presentation by Dr Jessica Pitt at the MEHEM (Music…
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Research
Becoming Creative Researcher at Magic Acorns
Dr Jessica Pitt
Written by Dr Jessica Pitt, Creative Researcher and Co-Director at Magic Acorns This photo was taken in early spring this year as I sat in…
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Research
The Thesis What I Wrote – ‘More-than-Words: reconceptualising two-year-old children’s onto-epistemologies through Improvisation and the Temporal Arts’
Dr Charlotte Arculus
I will unpick the title of my PhD thesis a little. Onto-epistemology is a hyphenation of epistemology meaning a system of knowing or way of…
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Creative training
Research
Emergent Life – Bronwyn Davies
Sophie Fox
Join us for this rare opportunity to listen and discuss with independent scholar Bronwyn Davies at our next online webinar on 26th November. ” The…
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Research
Let’s embrace the word gap
Barbara Cavanagh
At the start of any research project you have to think about your research question/s and what it is you are trying to find out.…
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Research
Looking Beyond
Barbara Cavanagh
Over the past few weeks I have been watching and rewatching videos of Magic Acorns’ projects. It has got me thinking about two things in…
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