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The Thesis What I Wrote - ‘More-than-Words: reconceptualising two-year-old children’s onto-epistemologies through Improvisation and the Temporal Arts'
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...
Charlotte Arculus
May 13, 20242 min read
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Magic Online - More Than Adults-in-Waiting
What very young children might tell us about time, music and philosophy if we started asking better questions? Charlotte Arculus is a bag...
Sophie Fox
Feb 28, 20242 min read
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Emergent Life - Bronwyn Davies
Join us for this rare opportunity to listen and discuss with independent scholar Bronwyn Davies at our next online webinar on 26th...
Sophie Fox
Nov 9, 20231 min read
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Art and Intimacy - Ellen Dissanayake
We are very excited to be hosting this event that offers a rare opportunity to take part in an online webinar with independent scholar,...
Sophie Fox
Mar 15, 20231 min read
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Let's embrace the word gap
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. The...
Barbara Cavanagh
Mar 14, 20235 min read
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Inside Out Network
Last week at our online Acorn Network Jess Pitt and Barbara Cavanagh shared the Inside Out research project. "The Inside Out research...
Sophie Fox
Feb 3, 20231 min read
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LOOKING BEYOND
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...
Barbara Cavanagh
Jan 3, 20235 min read
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"The first thing that struck me was the vulnerability."
In this final episode of the Germination podcast series Dr. Jessica Pitt is in conversation with Dr. Mary Stakelum, academic, outside eye...
Sophie Fox
Nov 16, 20221 min read
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"Time disappears, this is what it must be like for a child playing"
In the second episode of the Germination Podcast series Jess Pitt is in conversation with Hope Watson, Gemination mentee and early...
Sophie Fox
Nov 9, 20221 min read
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Unexpected Meanderings
Since my last blog, I have been expanding my reading to look more deeply not only into Froebel and his philosophy but also at play and...
Barbara Cavanagh
Sep 28, 20224 min read
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Upside down, Inside Out, and Round and Round
At the time I found out that I was going to be working on the Inside Out project, Diana Ross was in the headlines following her...
Barbara Cavanagh
Aug 15, 20224 min read
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Inside - out: Froebel Research Associate
The Inside Out research project, funded jointly by RCM and the Froebel Trust, is inspired by Froebel’s philosophy that children, as...
Sophie Fox
Jul 27, 20222 min read
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Research Associate Opportunity
We are very excited to announce this research associate opportunity. We are looking for a Froebel-informed Researcher with an interest in...
Jessica Pitt
Mar 4, 20221 min read
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Improvisation and the giving of space
The following is a transcript of the presentation of "In-Between Spaces: Improvisation and the giving of temporal and physical space" at...
Sophie Fox
Feb 25, 20225 min read
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Germination Network Sharing
We were so excited to be able to share this Youth Music funded project with the Acorn Network. This free online network event was a...
Sophie Fox
Feb 10, 20221 min read
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Practicing a state of not knowing
Throughout Germination, we have been practicing a state of not knowing, working against the tide of certain teleological thought. For the...
Ruby Holness
Dec 10, 20213 min read
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Loose Parts and Children's Arts Play
We had the pleasure of hosting our third online network meeting on 2nd July with artists and academics Dr. Louisa Penfold and Dr. Roma...
Sophie Fox
Jul 19, 20212 min read
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An observation at In-Between Spaces: A Symphony of Play
The third session of the morning was with a family group of two children, one a toddler (T) and the other possibly 6-8 months (B) they...
Jessica Pitt
Jun 7, 20214 min read
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Sound playtime introduction
This session is a playful exploration of sound. So what is sound, and is it different to music? To me they’re the same thing, but you...
Oliver Payne
Jun 7, 20213 min read
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Making In-Between Spaces
This short film is a "fly on the wall" look at the making of ACE funded arts residency "In-Between Spaces". Set in the context of a...
Sophie Fox
May 20, 20211 min read
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