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“Materials change thinking change materials ...
change the architecture of our thinking”
“The personality of materials helped us to translate our thoughts.”
“Non-animate materials, being placed together,
can be seen in a new light,
when they form new relationships.”
“Transforming what I first noticed as two hard
substances meeting. But then I looked more closely
at the beauty from the light influence and on the
reflections it created.”
“Materials evoke relationships, connections and meanings.”
“I wonder how this way of knowing could interpret how I notice learning?
How can I encourage children to develop this sensitivity or become more aware of this?”
Teacher~researchers expressed an evolving aesthetic sensitivity - the “sensibility for connecting structures”
described by Claudia Giudice, an awareness, which, in Vea Vecchi’s words, “tends to bring a greater degree of
completeness to thinking.”
The growing use of poetic and expressive languages, both in words and images, in face to face work and virtual
collaborations was amazing. These languages contaminated each other: teacher~researchers explained their
growing confidence to experiment, having seen others do so.
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