Interaction Imagination

STEM-education has been around for some time now... a focus on Science Technology Engineering and Maths in education - not long after came STEAM-education, introducing the Arts into the focus... As I have been talking with my co-collaborators for the Maker Square at Förskola21 on the 7th of October 2019 we felt there was an essential missing ingredient... Relationships - so we decided to add that extra R and create STREAM. STREAM does exist already in the sense that there are

I have now been in Athens for a week. And in this time I have held two evening sessions - one on democratic learning and how I have used philosophy with preschoolers to enable this democratic process, and one called The first Three Years, play, learn, sleep, repeat, looking at the importance of the first three years and the impact we have on young children as adults, and the importance of play and sleep on learning. The third session was a Saturday morning hands on workshop f

It is the last day of 2018, and I am siting reflecting over the year that has been and over the year to come... So what are my take away reflections for this year? I think for me it is just how much everyone tends to emotionally react... and that emotions seem to be getting in the way of education. Now I am all for empathy, and the need for emotions, especially in a line of work that deals with people... but what I mean is that in dialogues about change people are reacting wi