Speakers
We are fortunate to have three educators from Reggio Emilia as Keynote Speakers at our conference.
Tiziana Filippini
Tiziana Filippini is a Pedagogista, in the Department of Early Education in Reggio Emilia. As a pedagogista, Tiziana worked closely with Loris Malaguzzi, and often accompanied him as an interpreter on his visits outside Italy. She currently has responsibility for the pedagogical support and professional learning of educators in three centres and overall responsibility for the 100 Languages Exhibition. She is highly regarded in many countries of the world for her ability to share pedagogical principles and theory translated into practice.
The opening lecture by Tiziana Filippini will now be open to the public.
Thursday 12 July, 2007 at 7pm - Wrest Point Convention Centre
Tickets are $20 each and can be purchased by completing a WORKSHOP BOOKING FORM and returning it to the conference managers - all information is on the booking form.
Stefania Giamminunti
Stefania is an Early Childhood teacher from Rome, Italy. She is currently a full-time PhD student, in receipt of a University Postgraduate Award, in the Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia. A recipient of the Creswick Foundation Fellowship for 2006, she has recently returned from a six-month research internship in the municipal infant-toddler centres and pre-schools of the city of Reggio Emilia, Italy.
In Reggio Emilia, Stefania investigated research questions in dialogue with educators, children, and families. She observed how culture is created and learning communities are built through processes of pedagogical documentation. She is currently researching in dialogue with educators, children, and families at Bold Park Community School in Perth, Western Australia.
Stefania is interested in socio-constructivist research, theory and practice, and in the implications of reflecting on the Reggio Emilia educational project in other cultural contexts. Hailing from a mixture of cultural backgrounds and experiences (Italy, U.S.A., Australia), she is challenged to reflect on the role of relationships, listening, research, and culture and context in teaching and learning.
Her experience combines an understanding of research and practice in context. She recognizes the need for educators to see the extraordinary in the ordinary by learning and researching with and about young children, and she reflects on how we can create a shared culture of school and childhood by building relationships with children, families and the community.Mirca Neroni
Mirca Neroni has a University Degree in visual arts at the University in Bologna DAMS. She has been an atelierista since 1999 and has worked for different Municipal Schools in the city of Reggio Emilia. She is currently the atelierista of the Neruda School.
She has been collaborating on different research projects, among which "The expressive languages of children, the artistic language of Alberto Burri", "Dialogues with Places", and a "Town in waiting.
Lucrezia Mecca
Lucrezia Mecca is an early childhood professional who has
worked primarily with families and children aged 3 months –
5 years in a Melbourne inner-city children’s centre, catering
for families of non-English and low socio-economic
backgrounds. For three years she worked in the
independent school sector, helping design and see to
fruition, a new early childhood centre. Her bilingualism in
Italian and English, as well as her professional background,
helped her become the first Australasian intern in Reggio
Emilia, Italy in 2001. Since 2003, she has embarked on a
new early childhood experience; the journey of parenthood.
These Keynote Speakers will be supported by Australian Presenters, to provoke our thinking about Reggio Emilia philosophy in relation to the values, theory and practice of our own particular places of learning and teaching.
