Reggio Inspired Pedagogy 2024.pptx

Reggio Inspired Pedagogy Winter 2023 History of Reggio Emilia “Relationship is the primary connecting dimension of system, however, understood not merely as a warm, protective envelope but rather as a dynamic conjunction of forces and elements interacting toward a common purpose. The streng...

Reggio Inspired Pedagogy Winter 2023 History of Reggio Emilia “Relationship is the primary connecting dimension of system, however, understood not merely as a warm, protective envelope but rather as a dynamic conjunction of forces and elements interacting toward a common purpose. The strength of our system lies in the ways we make explicit and then intensify the necessary conditions for relations and interactions.” 2 Reggio Emilia… “…is an approach it is not a model. It is an educational experience that consists of reflection, practice, and further careful reflection.” Lella Gandini 3 Children in the piazza 4  For children not to be invisible Body, space, movement Children are naturally disposed towards building identity in relations with others; they embody the world through movement that includes space, time, and energy. Signs Through marks and signs children give shape to their ideas, revising, sharing, and transforming them in representational and symbolic processes full of aesthetic value and vitality. Sensitive space Representing a space in a drawing, transforming a reality into two dimensions, and 5  TEACHER AS RESEARCHER “Research is a concept that underpins all activity of Reggio Emilia educators, in a general way of working aimed at generating new ideas, thoughts, and projects closely linked to the contemporary world.” 6 Reggio Children Exhibitions “The exhibitions mirror the experience from which they are born and in which they are deeply rooted, but at the same time, through what is possible and desirable, they show the real.” Loris Malaguzzi 7 Reggio Children Ateliers ONE HUNDRED LANGUAGES “Ateliers are environments promoting knowledge and creativity, suggesting questions and generating evocations; they are beauty that produces knowledge and vice-versa, the places where the hundred languages are enacted.” 8 Reggio Children Ateliers DIGITAL LANDSCAPES RAY OF LIGHT IN THE SHAPE OF CLAY HE MOSAIC OF MARKS, W THE SECRETS OF PAPER ORDS Imagine a forest “In the children’s words trees emerged as living things, co-living with human beings. We can say that trees are our fellow creature s in the kingdom of plants, and that increasingly we have come to appreciate their irreplaceable function for life on Earth. They are reality and metaphor for the strength and beauty our 10