Debi Keyte-Hartland

Looking forward to meeting educators and players in Aberdeen!

On Tuesday our first year MA students came together for the last time before embarking upon their professional enquiries.

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Just got off a long flight to find out this sad news. She was such an inspiration. For me she lit a flame in me to see children as rich and competent and as subjects with rights, citizens of now and not just their future. I’m heart broken but thankful for her wisdom, kindness and thinking.

Away in Hoi An, Vietnam currently. A time to practice slow.

I’m so privileged to be able to do what I ❤️ Another wonderful conference weekend creating spaces to think with others, with materials about our work with children. Thank you Cornwall for the invite and opportunity to think with your amazing educators!

Here in stunning Cornwall (this is Polzeath) speaking about the curiosity of the under 3’s …

🎉 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! 🎉

The Play Matters Guide 2025 is NOW PUBLISHED and available for FREE DOWNLOAD! 📖✨

www.early-years-reviews.com/play-matters

And children can construct much more valuable & complex ‘knowledge’ through an approach to curriculum making with children in which their agency, rights to participation & ‘real questions’ (Hedges) are acknowledged & amplified. 70% at GLD is just tinkering with something already broken & arbitrary😞

Curricula as experiential!

I’m talking in Liverpool this week about just this! Curriculum as something living, experienced, participated in. Curriculum making with children with their ideas and questions which emerge responded to. Random topics about bears and under the sea plus arbitrary goalposts are more than unhelpful!

I see what they notice and are thinking about. They’re thinking through the materials and onto the paper. Building and constructing knowledge, and communicating that multimodally.

I am hoping that I might get some help spreading the word about my 2nd year student’s MA research project on physical environments that engender creativity. Please share with anyone who you think might be interested. Many thanks!🙏

That’s great news!

Made up to be in Eastbourne at East Sussex Childminders conference tomorrow talking about joy in curriculum with young children

Hi Alison!!! Glad to find and connect with you here!!

🌟So this podcast has just landed!

In this episode-

🌱I discuss the importance of following what matters to children

🌱I talk about playful inquiry & the place of art and creativity in both education

🌱The vitality of materials

🌱Ecological curriculum-making

theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/epi...

Yeah!!! I’m finding my way round here! But just had to leave that other place! Good to ‘see’ you!!! 🐦🦜🕊️

Juliet, you have made my day!!!!!!!! Thank you so much, and coming from YOU!!!!!! Xx😊

Took me a while!! But happy to be here!!!!

Transitioning to here from ‘that’ other place and keen to link and connect with others in ECE to learn, think and work together. All things early years but fascinated with the power of the arts, creativity and pedagogies which support participation, listening and thinking through materials.

🌟So I’ve recorded my first ever podcast which had just landed at the link below! I’d love to hear your thoughts… 💭💬🤔. Such a joy to share my thinking in this way.
#creativity #attunement #slowpedagogy

theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/epi...