Reggio Emilia Approach

The Reggio Emilia approach is a student-centered, constructivist philosophy of early childhood education developed by Loris Malaguzzi together with parents in villages around Reggio Emilia, Italy, in the years following the Second World War. It holds that children possess a hundred languages, many equally valid ways of expressing understanding beyond words, and that they should have real control over the direction of their own learning through long-term, open-ended projects built from their own interests. Teachers act as co-learners and careful observers rather than instructors delivering a fixed curriculum, documenting children's work in detail, and the physical environment itself is treated as a third teacher. The approach gained international recognition after the 1981 traveling exhibition The Hundred Languages of Children opened in Stockholm. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/