Starting this Thursday (1st), the city of São Paulo will host the Per-Play Explore Research Brasil project “Play and Learning: Community Educational Practices”.
The initiative, which runs until August 3, includes meetings between Educators, teachers, children and families, in addition to more than 40 laboratories in different languages on the relationship between play, learning and community practices.
The program also includes dialogues with Lego Prize winners Carla Rinaldi and Maria Adelaida López, led by Paulo Fochi, from Unisinos, and Daniela Caldeirinha, from the Lemann Foundation.
The stage in São Paulo is the second of seven meetings on five continents, with the aim of promoting the relationship between play and the right to learning for all and quality education.
“It will be an action-conference on the community’s educational practices to build a cohesive and inclusive society and to value experiences in schools and educational centers that promote the right to play in everyday activities, alongside education for life”, explains Rinaldi, president of the Reggio Children Foundation, promoter of the event alongside The Lego Foundation.
The original project was launched in November in Reggio Emilia, a city in northern Italy renowned worldwide for its early childhood education system.
The initiative in Brazil has as partners the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Consulate General in São Paulo, the Italian Training System in the World, the Government of the State of São Paulo, the City Hall of São Paulo, the Paula Souza Center, the CEU-Unified Educational Center Butantã and organizations such as Red Solare Brasil, aeioTU, Lemann Foundation, Creative Schools, RBAC – Brazilian Network for Creative Learning, Cintra Gordinho Foundation and Raiz y Fronda.HANDLE)
