ABSTRACT
The documentation approach to early learning has afforded us the possibility to make visible the children's learning, either as individuals or as members of learning groups, by recording across a range of media both shorter- and longer-term encounters. Those which are shorter term are referred to in this section as episodes, whilst those which are longer term are referred to as projects. A learning group, as we understand it, is distinct from children being engaged in experiences in parallel with other children within a usual group situation and learning alone. In the main, what is being shared in this section is a cross-section of documentation projects as they occurred within core learning groups. This became necessary because we realised that this way of supporting young children's learning incorporates a socio-constructivist philosophy which, we understand, has many advantages for children over the mainly individualistic approach which tended to be our previous dominant practice.
