Reggio Emilia Approach

The environment in which your child spends their time has a direct impact on their development and what they learn. This refers not only to the people they encounter and the situations related to them but also to the entire surrounding space. Seemingly trivial elements—such as the arrangement of furniture, the type and organization of […]

It is the spring of 1945. Mussolini is dead and the people of Italy survey wreckage of their country. For two decades, fascism has been the ruling ideology: individual rights and democratic values were suppressed in favour of the state. In a village near the town of Reggio Emilia, the people decide to build a

My son comes into the living room to find a line of cars, buses and taxis perched on the second shelf of the bookcase, two feet off the ground. He notices a second line of vehicles on the coffee table, pointing in the opposite direction. Yesterday we took a trip into London to spend time by

How many languages does your child speak? Just one? Maybe two? Educators in Reggio Emilia, Italy, believe that they have one hundred. Not spoken languages, of course, but ways of expressing themselves.Dance, art and music, sculpture, construction and song. Your child can speak in many ways. It’s tempting to measure our children’s capabilities by what

The space your child plays in can ask questions. Your child is engaged in a dialogue with the room and the materials. The furniture you use and the toys you offer have a direct effect on what learning takes place. Followers of the Reggio Emilia Approach call this idea the environment as the third teacher. The