0-2 Course participants with Paola Della Camera (CEMEA Lazio)
and Newborn Assistant Letizia Varrone
Rome June 21- July 6, 2019
The course was a first attempt to recreate a learning atmosphere where the participants learned through direct experience and self discovery, rather than didactic lessons given as lectures. It was not an easy mission and we experienced many emotions about how things went. Paola Della Camera was our Italian grandmother, our Nonna, who had us put down our notebooks several times a week and led us in CEMEA activities that felt like going to Montessori summer camp. CEMEA was described in the article "Reflections on the activities of independent discovery in the first two years of life" in a previous blog found here
"The preparation of the social climate was important to create a safe non-judgmental space where every form of comparison and competition was eliminated, helping the participants confront and eliminate the primary obstacle in human relations: continuous judgement." GHF
The video created by one of our participants opens with Rosa Maria Muzzarelli talking about meeting Adele Costa Gnocchi. Minnie (Rosa Maria) and Letizia offered us a view into the original Scuola Assistenza all'Infanzia and what they learned from their teachers Anna Di Palermo and Rita Carusi. The newborn is the most difficult to understand since you have to learn to read behavioral communications, not just which cry you are hearing and what it means - but how autonomic movements and reflexes indicate stress and over stimulation.
The opening audio of the video:
Miss Costa Gnocchi would call every new student into her office and tell her "sit there, now I'm going to ask you some questions" and she would ask: "What do you do? What don't you do? What have you studied? Are you interested in the Child?" And she would continuously say, "You must observe, that's what you have to do, observe."
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