Using examples from a Reggio-inspired tuition with youngsters from a while 6 weeks to six years, the authors emphasize the significance of children’s rights and our accountability as adults to listen to their voices. Seen and Heard summarizes examine and idea touching on younger children’s rights within the usa, and gives suggestions educators can use to make sure the inclusion of children’s views in daily judgements. Real-life school room vignettes illustrate how youngsters understand the belief of rights via commentary and dialogue. The authors’ paintings relies on 3 crucial principles: (1) the “one hundred languages” teenagers use for exploring, gaining knowledge of, developing, representing, and conveying their principles; (2) the “pedagogy of listening,” during which childrens and adults conscientiously attend to the area and to each other; (3) the thought that every one youngsters have definitely the right to take part within the groups during which they dwell.

“This exuberant examine of the way childrens see their global may be learn through each all in favour of the way forward for democracy.”
—Mary Catherine Bateson, cultural anthropologist

“Seen and Heard is a much-needed and strong antidote to such a lot of of the worrisome forces at paintings in early youth schooling today.”
—Diane E. Levin, Wheelock College

“What we think approximately kid's rights impacts every little thing. It affects how we're with youngsters, what we provide, what we are saying, how we pay attention, the questions we ask, the possibilities we provide.”
—From the Foreword by way of Bonnie Neugebauer, Co-founder and Director of software improvement, global discussion board beginning and editor of Exchange magazine