Pedagogical documentation as a peculiar narrative in nursery

Abstract This text is about Early Childhood Education, focusing on the process of pedagogical documentation as a possible peculiar narrative to and with very young children. The paper presents elements of a doctoral research in education, held in 2014, observing four daycare centers located in the city of Pistoia, Italy. Considering its different forms and types, the research found common threads in the documentation produced by the teachers: the image of an active child, able to grow and relate, and a learning environment potentially rich in experience. Through the theoretical lenses of Walter Benjamin, the teacher is taken as a narrator,while the pedagogical documentation is taken as a peculiar narrative woven by the thread of language enshrined in things. Through this material, the very small child speaks and is spoken. Between the visible and the invisible, between voice and silence.Treasures are documented, narrated in everyday life...