Simona
23-06-2013, 01:26 PM
This is a wonderful essay on the teaching of Malaguzzi and the Reggio Emilia approach to preschool education
I confess that although I am Italian it was not until I started in childcare that I came across it and became aware of its influence..it is unique and only concentrated in one area of Italy...although a very rich area it caters equally for all children and families
Shame Truss did not think of looking there rather than make France her model to be imported here...
I absolutely respect the Reggio approach and adapt as much as I can in my setting.
Do you think it could ever be introduced here in terms of practice and way of seeing children as co-producers of learning, could we ever be valued as practitioners like the pedagogistas are in Reggio?
Interaction Imagination: The relevance of Loris Malaguzzi in Early Childhood Education (written 2009) (http://interactionimagination.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-relevance-of-loris-malaguzzi-in.html)
I confess that although I am Italian it was not until I started in childcare that I came across it and became aware of its influence..it is unique and only concentrated in one area of Italy...although a very rich area it caters equally for all children and families
Shame Truss did not think of looking there rather than make France her model to be imported here...
I absolutely respect the Reggio approach and adapt as much as I can in my setting.
Do you think it could ever be introduced here in terms of practice and way of seeing children as co-producers of learning, could we ever be valued as practitioners like the pedagogistas are in Reggio?
Interaction Imagination: The relevance of Loris Malaguzzi in Early Childhood Education (written 2009) (http://interactionimagination.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-relevance-of-loris-malaguzzi-in.html)