Inquiry Based Learning with Dr Claire Warden

In our first of two episodes looking at Leadership for change, we focus on creating a shared vision for learning. We discuss the challenges we face as leaders around getting a strategic plan into operation.

We then turn our conversation to the things that concern us most and talk about how we can put our energy to most effect in the small moments, day to day that we can control in order to impact on the issues that concern us all.

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We continue to think about childrens environments by looking closer at 'risky environments'. This week we examine the different types of risk and if we we truly understand how children feel when they come into our environment?

It's really important to understand that there are different types of risk taking but together we bring all our experiences and learn that we need to push our own boundaries.

Risk taking doesn't have to be about adventure but we need an ethos of freedom and wildness in the way that you work with children.

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In this weeks episode we're exploring the first of many conversations around early childhood environments. This particular conversation was instigated by the statement;

Making a room beige is not enough. We dig deeper into the idea of display in a learning environment and how important it is to have an understanding that decor should facilitate, rather than dominate learning.

We debate the balance of pride and freedom for both the children and the adults.

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In this episode of Conversations with Dr Claire Warden we're going to be exploring the idea of creativity and creative thinking as I'm joined by people from across the world to really think about our own practice and the influence the adult has on creativity.

We're going to start off by unpacking a quote from Juliet Desailly, and what it means for us in our day to day practice.

"Creativity has always proved hard to define, both in education and in its wider contexts. However, it has also been something that has been thought valuable and worth promoting. "CREATIVITY IN THE PRIMARY CLASSROOM"

We debate the conditions that we need to offer children to help them to really flourish in terms of their creativity. We also discuss the idea of empowerment, the freedom to fail and to succeed, the freedom to destroy as well as construct within their play. We've talked a little bit about the power of the adult and the influence the adult has on creativity.

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Welcome to Conversations with Dr Claire Warden. In this episode my colleagues and I are going to be exploring ideas around dark and light.

We think a lot about children's experiences, both in urban and rural environments; the impact of red, blue and green light on young children and what emotional effect those things might have on their development.

We all have really different experiences of light and dark and often our practice is affected by the way that we've experienced it in our childhood and the impact it has on our current practice.

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The first part of our series is going to be looking at the idea of capability, by discussing a particular document that's been produced in Scotland called “Realising the Ambition”. I am in the company of passionate early years practitioners who I meet with on a weekly basis. This document explores the range of interactions, experiences and spaces we need to provide for babies and young children to help them learn and grow best from the earliest days through to being a young child in early primary school.

How is it that children are capable and how do we respond as adults when we're in that playful environment?

Read the Scottish Government report here.

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