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The article offers information on a meeting of early childhood teacher researchers, held online in the year 2021. Topics discussed include the importance of inquiry-based education by early childhood educators, the significance of documentation of transcribed words, images and audio and video recordings of learning experiences in group learning and the values of experimentation and risk taking, as of September 2021.

This article explores the use of documentation—to observe, record, and interpret the learning of children and their pre-service teachers to make that learning visible in order to point to it and engage in a collaborative dialogue. Inspired by the work of the Reggio Emilia infant-toddler and pre-schools in Italy, this study extends the idea of documenting young children’s individual and group learning to adult learning in a graduate seminar with nine pre-service teachers. Shifts made to teaching a seminar included professor and pre-service teachers co-constructing the meaning of a learning group, following a protocol to look at children’s work, sharing public reflections, interpreting the learning that took place both between and in each seminar. The explicit effort to document adult learning led to creating a collective body of knowledge that extended to documenting children’s learning in elementary inclusive classrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]