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Making Learning Visible Through Pedagogical Documentation Written by Dr. Carol Anne Wien York University “Documentation is not about finding answers, but generating questions.” (Filippini in Turner Wilson, 2010, p. 9) We have always documented as a society – from cash register slips to medical records, family photo albums to report cards. But pedagogical documentation offers more than a record. It offers a process for listening to children, for creating artifacts from that listening, and for studying with others what children reveal about their competent and thoughtful views of the world. To listen to children, we document living moments with images, video, artifacts, written or audio recordings of what children have said, or other digital traces. These documented traces of lived experience, when shared with others, become a tool for thinking together. To hear others’ thoughts makes us realize there are many viewpoints. Pedagogical documentation goes beyond the foundation of the developmental continuum to welcome both children’s perspectives and our study of their views. Here, for example, we see a child outside on a playground looking in a window. n w