| Wednesday 21st October 2020, 4pm–5:30pm Price: £35 (Member Discount £5) Presenters: Professor Peter Moss, Louise Lowings Booking: www.sightlines-initiative.com This session will explore the concept of ‘languages of evaluation’ – the idea that there are many different ways of understanding and conducting evaluation, and not just evaluation as ‘performance management’, a language that is very dominant today. In particular, we will consider what language of evaluation can do justice to a complex and distinct pedagogical project, for example, that of the municipal schools of Reggio Emilia or many of the Children’s Centres in England, in a way that embodies the value of participatory democracy, and supports researchful education. Peter Moss, from UCL Institute of Education, will share some of his preliminary thinking about this challenge; while Louise Lowings, from Madeley Nursery School, will share some examples from current practice that have evolved from a two year international research project in early childhood centres. There will be time for questions and discussion about this vital subject. Bookings via sightlines-initiative.com |
| “Documentation as a tool for assessment/evaluation gives us an extremely strong ‘antibody’ to a proliferation of assessment/evaluation tools which are more and more anonymous, decontextualised and only apparently objective and democratic.” – Carla Rinaldi, President of Reggio Children Foundation |
