Reggio Emilia Curriculum

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The Reggio Emilia Approach

to Early Childhood Education


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Reggio Emilia,
Italy

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Loris Malaguzzi
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The Capable Child
“...discovering not so much the limits and
weaknesses of children but rather their surprising
and extraordinary strengths and capabilities linked
with an inexhaustible need for expression and
realization.”
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Competent

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Competent

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Competent

Inquisitive
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Competent

Inquisitive
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Competent Full of potential

Inquisitive
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Environment
“It has been said that the environment should act
as a kind of aquarium which reflects the ideas,
ethics, attitudes and cultures of the people who live
in it. This is what we are working toward.”
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Documentation
“...Teachers must learn to interpret ongoing
processes rather than wait to evaluate results.”
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Process

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Process

Collection

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Process

Collection

Reflection

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Process

Collection

Reflection

Analysis

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Process

Collection

Reflection

Analysis

Presentation
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Relationships
“...in our system, we know it is essential to focus on
children...but we do not feel that is enough. We
consider teachers and families as also central to
the education of children.”
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Children to children Children and teacher
Teacher to teacher Teacher and parents

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Hundred Languages
“Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to
be more attentive to the cognitive processes of
children than to the results they achieve in various
fields of doing and understanding.”
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School of knowing

finds connections with

School of expressing
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Researcher
“To learn and relearn with the children is our line of
work.”
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You can not BE Reggio,
because you are not in Reggio.

Reflection
Collaboration
Questioning
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Resources
The Hundred Languages of Children edited by Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini and George Forman
Working in the Reggio Way by Julianne P. Wurm

Image Credits
lion pic by Pilar Torres
wicker basket by timandangela.org.uk
upside down boy by Tony Trần
boy by wall by d o l f i
boy with camera by Mary Kay2012
circle of children by sourbrew
teacher collaboration by MarthaChristensonLees
back to school night by Barrett Web Coordinator

By Elaine Eastwood Poff

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