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The Thesis What I Wrote - ‘More-than-Words: reconceptualising two-year-old children’s onto-epistemologies through Improvisation and the Temporal Arts'

Charlotte Arculus

May 132 min read

The Thesis What I Wrote - ‘More-than-Words: reconceptualising two-year-old children’s onto-epistemologies through Improvisation and the Temporal Arts'

I will unpick the title of my PhD thesis a little. Onto-epistemology is a hyphenation of epistemology meaning a system of knowing or way...

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Magic Online - More Than Adults-in-Waiting

Sophie Fox

Feb 282 min read

Magic Online - More Than Adults-in-Waiting

What very young children might tell us about time, music and philosophy if we started asking better questions? Charlotte Arculus is a bag...

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Sophie Fox

Nov 9, 20231 min read

Emergent Life - Bronwyn Davies

Join us for this rare opportunity to listen and discuss with independent scholar Bronwyn Davies at our next online webinar on 26th...

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Sophie Fox

Mar 15, 20231 min read

Art and Intimacy - Ellen Dissanayake

We are very excited to be hosting this event that offers a rare opportunity to take part in an online webinar with independent scholar,...

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Barbara Cavanagh

Mar 14, 20235 min read

Let's embrace the word gap

At the start of any research project you have to think about your research question/s and what it is you are trying to find out. The...

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Sophie Fox

Feb 3, 20231 min read

Inside Out Network

Last week at our online Acorn Network Jess Pitt and Barbara Cavanagh shared the Inside Out research project. "The Inside Out research...

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Barbara Cavanagh

Jan 3, 20235 min read

LOOKING BEYOND

Over the past few weeks I have been watching and rewatching videos of Magic Acorns’ projects. It has got me thinking about two things in...

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"The first thing that struck me was the vulnerability."

Sophie Fox

Nov 16, 20221 min read

"The first thing that struck me was the vulnerability."

In this final episode of the Germination podcast series Dr. Jessica Pitt is in conversation with Dr. Mary Stakelum, academic, outside eye...

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"Time disappears, this is what it must be like for a child playing"

Sophie Fox

Nov 9, 20221 min read

"Time disappears, this is what it must be like for a child playing"

In the second episode of the Germination Podcast series Jess Pitt is in conversation with Hope Watson, Gemination mentee and early...

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Barbara Cavanagh

Sep 28, 20224 min read

Unexpected Meanderings

Since my last blog, I have been expanding my reading to look more deeply not only into Froebel and his philosophy but also at play and...

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Upside down, Inside Out, and Round and Round

Barbara Cavanagh

Aug 15, 20224 min read

Upside down, Inside Out, and Round and Round

At the time I found out that I was going to be working on the Inside Out project, Diana Ross was in the headlines following her...

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Inside - out: Froebel Research Associate

Sophie Fox

Jul 27, 20222 min read

Inside - out: Froebel Research Associate

The Inside Out research project, funded jointly by RCM and the Froebel Trust, is inspired by Froebel’s philosophy that children, as...

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Jessica Pitt

Mar 4, 20221 min read

Research Associate Opportunity

We are very excited to announce this research associate opportunity. We are looking for a Froebel-informed Researcher with an interest in...

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Sophie Fox

Feb 25, 20225 min read

Improvisation and the giving of space

The following is a transcript of the presentation of "In-Between Spaces: Improvisation and the giving of temporal and physical space" at...

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Sophie Fox

Feb 10, 20221 min read

Germination Network Sharing

We were so excited to be able to share this Youth Music funded project with the Acorn Network. This free online network event was a...

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Ruby Holness

Dec 10, 20213 min read

Practicing a state of not knowing

Throughout Germination, we have been practicing a state of not knowing, working against the tide of certain teleological thought. For the...

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Sophie Fox

Jul 19, 20212 min read

Loose Parts and Children's Arts Play

We had the pleasure of hosting our third online network meeting on 2nd July with artists and academics Dr. Louisa Penfold and Dr. Roma...

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An observation at In-Between Spaces: A Symphony of Play

Jessica Pitt

Jun 7, 20214 min read

An observation at In-Between Spaces: A Symphony of Play

The third session of the morning was with a family group of two children, one a toddler (T) and the other possibly 6-8 months (B) they...

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Oliver Payne

Jun 7, 20213 min read

Sound playtime introduction

This session is a playful exploration of sound. So what is sound, and is it different to music? To me they’re the same thing, but you...

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Sophie Fox

May 20, 20211 min read

Making In-Between Spaces

This short film is a "fly on the wall" look at the making of ACE funded arts residency "In-Between Spaces". Set in the context of a...

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