Learning with Damaged Colonial Places

Dr Theresa Giorza is a lecturer and teacher educator at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her current research focuses on the collaborative creation of knowledges and more ethical ways of being, drawing on the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education and Philosophy for Children (P4C). Themes include decolonizing the concepts of child and childhood, epistemological access through the arts, and the interplay between expert knowledge and open enquiry.

• 1 Children's pedagogies: Fool's gold and the rush for readiness. The arts in early learning. Artists working with children.- 2 Running a preschool instead of a shop: The economics of early childhood provision in South Africa. Stories about a Johannesburg not-for-profit preschool.- 3 Teaching is research is learning: Legacies of Reggio Emilia and Philosophy with Children. Enquiry based learning, atelieristas and documentations. A/r/tography. Making photos, creating video, re-working data/creata.- 4 Naming and nont-naming: Thresholds of literacy. Opening the doors of literacy. Teaching as welcoming.- 5 Taking fantasy out of the corner: Sensory worlds and the imagination. The importance of nonsense.- 6 Park-ing: Public spaces renegotiated. Toxic landscapes and influx control.- 7 Possibilities of becoming public. Empyting the prison of childhood.