{"id":1784,"date":"2019-08-11T19:45:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T17:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kindinmi.phwien.ac.at\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2019-08-11T19:46:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T17:46:01","slug":"work-in-progress-kindinmi-pedagogic-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kindinmi.phwien.ac.at\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"Work in progress: KINDINMI pedagogic kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2019, Kirsten Darling McQuistan, Lecturer in Education at Aberdeen University travelled to Uppsala University\u2019s Department of Education to work with doctoral student Sarah Campbell and Senior Lecturer V\u00e9ronique Simon on the KINDINMI pedagogic kit.\u00a0 We had a really fruitful weekend with much thought-provoking discussion around the key themes and philosophies underlying <em>heartspace, <\/em>our kit concept, and a lot of concrete progress on the curation, creation and design of the materials.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Drawing inspiration from a Swedish proverb about making space for a newcomer, the <em>heartspace<\/em> materials are designed to support busy early years educators in reflecting on and developing their practice to create early learning and childcare settings where every child and their family knows that they are able, equal and valued.<\/p>\n<p>Through a focus on \u2018spaces\u2019 for, amongst others, migration, situation, representation and communication, the <em>heartspace<\/em> materials allow practitioners to recognize the positive work they already do day to day, while supporting them in readjusting and reevaluating the habits which inform their everyday practice so that every single family is met, seen and involved equitably.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that Uppsala\u2019s weather had taken a decidedly unsummery turn during Kirsten\u2019s visit, the rain held off long enough for us to show her the sights of the city\u2019s historic university district as we walked to and from our offices, which are adjacent to Carl von Linn\u00e9\u2019s world renowned botanical gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2019, Kirsten Darling McQuistan, Lecturer in Education at Aberdeen University travelled to Uppsala University\u2019s Department of Education to work with doctoral student Sarah Campbell and Senior Lecturer V\u00e9ronique Simon on the KINDINMI pedagogic kit.\u00a0 We had a really fruitful weekend with much thought-provoking discussion around the key themes and philosophies underlying heartspace, our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kindinmi.phwien.ac.at\/?p=1784\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Work in progress: KINDINMI pedagogic kit<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindinmi.phwien.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindinmi.phwien.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindinmi.phwien.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindinmi.phwien.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindinmi.phwien.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kindinmi.phwien.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/kindinmi.phwien.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindinmi.phwien.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindinmi.phwien.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindinmi.phwien.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindinmi.phwien.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}