change of direction

When I began this blog it was meant to be an interactive space created for dialogue between myself and a specific group of teachers.  It worked well and served as the impetus for discussion on teaching, education and art in the context of an inquiry into the Project Approach.  While the topic remains the same, that was a summer study group that no longer gets together and yet I find there are still so many things upon which I would like to reflect and write.  As an artist and early childhood educator I find myself often reflecting and wondering about the world of young children and the current educational practices and the society in which they find themselves.  The questions raised currently serve as the context for my dissertation and life long research and will become the topics of my blog postings.  I see this space as becoming the means of my sharing such reflections and wonderings with others that I hope challenge some of my perceptions and take my own thinking to a different level.  By merging both the written language and visual images within my blog in connection to current educational practices I seek to illustrate the possibilities and potential of early childhood education and beyond, many of which are yet to be realized in our current practices.