Full Description
The Municipal preschools of Reggio Emilia, in Northern Italy, are renowned world-wide for the excellence of their provision. This approach provides a unique collaboration between children, parents, teachers and the wider community.
Loris Malaguzzi and the Reggio Emilia Experience brings together the history and context of the Reggio Emilia experience, and explores the principles espoused by Loris Malaguzzi and the Early Years' Educators of the Reggio Emilia Municipality. It critically evaluates the emergent curriculum and quality provision and offers new insights into the powerful and dominant discourses of the Reggio movement.
It will provide students and educators with a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon that is Reggio Emilia.
Contents
Series Editor's Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Reggio Emilia and Loris Malaguzzi: Sociohistorical Context and Intellectual Biography
1: The history and context of the development of the Reggio Emilia Experience
Part II: Critical Exposition of the Reggio Emilia Experience
2: Principles into Practice
3: Partnership with Parents and Families
4: Curriculum: Ideology and Pedagogy in Reggio Emilia
5: A Discursive Analysis of Reggio Emilia
Part III: The Relevance of Reggio Emilia
6: Reggio Emilia: A Question of Quality
Conclusion
Appendix: 'No Way - The Hundred is There'
References
Index
