Lifeful Research in Early childhood Education - Method of Intuition by Masa Avramovic

How to research ongoing life-living events in preschool, emerging open curriculum and children’s participation in pedagogical practice of early childhood education? How to do a research that acknowledges and works with creative capacities of life and education? In this exposition, I explore method of intuition developed by French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941) and potentials that it opens up for and within collaborative action research in early childhood education. I invite readers to follow an example from pedagogical practice in one preschool in Serbia, to join teachers and researcher in their effort to coincide with ongoing children's participation in addressing questions that emerge in their encounters with the world, through art-making.

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