Notes on Documentation

Some notes from my week in Reggio Emilia last year on documentation:

Documentation:

• is a democratic practice
• gives visibility to a project
• is a tool for creating public space for a project
• is a tool for continuity between bodies (e.g. preschool and primary school)
• involves all teachers
• makes discussion possible: between teachers; between teachers and families; between children and teachers; between children and parents
• is centered on concrete actions and practice
• helps find relationships between theory and practice
• not carried out on "things I decided beforehand"
• is a work in progress - documentation is a continuous flow and dialogue between work and children
• works with the declaration of a school's identity