The seminar features research presentations including:
1) Reconstructing school readiness from Chinese young children's perspectives, Dr Minyi Li, Associate Professor in Education, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University
2) Listening to Young Children in daily practices: Chinese Practitioners’ Reflections on a Knowledge-exchange Programme, Dr Yuwei Xu, Assistant Professor in Education and Teacher Development, University of Nottingham & Honorary Lecturer, UCL IOE.
3) Cultural exchange between preschools of disadvantaged backgrounds in England and China: Researchers’ reflections, Dr Jie Gao, Senior Research Fellow & Lecturer, UCL IOE
Panel discussion
Chair: Dr Rachael Levy, Associate Professor in Education, Director of CTEY, UCL IOE
Panellists: Dr Minyi Li, Dr Jie Gao, Dr Yuwei Xu and Ms Weicheng Guo, Research Assistant, MA Early Years Education student, UCL IOE;
Ms Siyu Qin, Research Assistant, MA Early Years Education student, Beijing Normal University
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11/11/2022
The Third Kindergarten of the Chinese Academy of Sciences - "Listening to Children's Voices”. This case study (video 2) shows teachers use Mosaic approach in kindergarten, and to support children's project-based learning.
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11/2/2022
The Third Kindergarten of the Chinese Academy of Sciences - "Listening to Children's Voices”. This case study (video 1) shows teachers use Mosaic approach in kindergarten, and to support children's project-based learning.
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11/2/2022
This workshop will discuss children’s rights in the early years, with a focus on partnerships between family, school and community.
The invited speakers will discuss children’s rights in the early years from different perspectives. They will share research findings, practical case studies, and reflections on promoting children’s rights through participatory pedagogical approaches.
This is the sixth workshop of the “Knowledge-exchange workshop series for Chinese practitioners to empower young children for sustainability in Early Childhood Education”, which aims to support Chinese ECE practitioners to better listen to children's voices, encourage children's participation and empower children's agency in everyday practice, which would support SDGs and promote sustainability education in early years.
This workshop series is funded by the UCL Global Engagement Funds and hosted by UCL-IOE Centre for Teacher and Early Years Education and Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University.
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8/16/2022
Documentary of Chinese kindergarten case studies of project-based
pedagogy
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8/2/2022
This workshop series is funded by the UCL Global Engagement Funds and hosted by UCL-IOE Centre for Teacher and Early Years Education and Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University.
The third workshop is entitled “Drama, Arts and Play in Early Childhood Education”.
The invited speakers are:
Dr Louisa Penfold, Lecturer and Research Fellow in Visal Arts and Early Childhood, Harvard University, US
Professor Jinmei Zhang, Director for Centre for Drama Education, Beijing Normal University Zhuhai, China
Shouhong Chen, Former Head of BoAi Kindergarten, Zhuhai, China
Chair:
Dr Yuwei Xu, Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham & Honorary Lecturer, UCL
The invited speakers will introduce how drama- and arts-based activities in early childhood education support children's participation and child-centred pedagogy.
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7/21/2022
This is a pre-recorded presentation by Dr. Ben Mardell and Dr. Yvonne Liu-Constant (Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education) for the knowledge-exchange workshop "The Application of Pedagogy of Play in Early Childhood Education—International Experience and China’s Plan" on 22nd June 2022. This workshop is funded by UCL Global Engagement Funds and hosted by UCL-IOE Centre for Teacher and Early Years Education and Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University. Translated by Dr. Jie Gao.
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This is Dr. Ben Mardell's documentation of teachers’ and kindergarteners’ learning while engaging in an exploratory activity of the Boston Marathon. You will find teachers’ strategies and children’s learning outcomes in the documentation. The entire process of this activity is led by children’s curiosity and autonomy. Children acquire the ability of problem-solving and teamworking when increasing their knowledge of the Boston Marathon. Original video link: https://vimeo.com/21372133. Translated by Dr. Minyi Li & Xiaoyi Li.
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