DOCUMENTATION
Photographs, drawings, information panels, transcribed conversations, collected materials, tape recordings, video recordings, anecdotes and journal reflections.
Documentation allows:
- Children to leave traces of themselves
- Children to have their work validated
- Children a voice in sharing their knowledge
Documentation Creates:
- Opportunities for conversation and interaction
- An authentic sequence of learning
- A collection of accurate research for revisiting and reflection
Documentation
Examples
All of this documentation... becomes an indispensable source of materials that we use every day to be able to “read” and reflect critically, both individually and collectively, on the experience we are living, the projects we are exploring. This allows us to construct theories and hypotheses that are not arbitrary or artificially imposed on the children.