Inquiry Projects: catching & sustaining ideas with children: Term 2 2025 - 7 May 2025

COST: $165+booking fee & gst for the series

TIME: 10:30am – 11:30am AEST

DATES: Wednesdays: 7th May 2025, 4th June 2025, 2nd July 2025

Inquiry-based learning is an experiential approach where children explore real-world problems, ideas, and questions driven by their curiosity. Educators are attuned and listen to children's theories and wonderings, creating contexts and environments that foster investigation and exploration of their ideas.

Educators balance intentional planning with responsiveness, creating the space for sustained inquiry and deeper engagement with underpinning concepts. This process encourages higher-order thinking skills—evaluating, analysing, and creating—while promoting active, self-directed learning. Ultimately, inquiry-based learning is about learning how to learn, with each child having a voice in shaping curriculum decision making as they collaborate and co-research alongside educators.

This series will not only explore the cycles within an inquiry project, it will also offer opportunities to strengthen practice as a co-researcher alongside children.

This conversation series includes 3 sessions:

1. The art of catching an idea

   Unpacking concepts, working theories and the value of slow pedagogy

   
   

2. The dance between listening, responding, and meaning making

   Awake and in dialogue with the rhythm of children’s inquiry / data collection
   

3. The choreography of the environment & documentation

   Making ideas visible, inviting discussion and relaunching new lines of inquiry

   
   
   
   

"Our expectations of the child must be very flexible and varied. We must be able to be amazed and to enjoy, like the children often do. We must be able to catch the ball that the children throw us, and toss it back to them in a way that makes the children want to continue the game with us, developing, perhaps, other games as we go along”

Tizianna Filippini, Pedagogista, Reggio Emilia

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Please make sure to include your postal address when registering, so that we can send you the series booklet.