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EDUC 380 INTRODUCTION TO P RESCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN
EDUCATION
NALTAN LAMPADAN, LECTURER
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & PSYCHOLOGY
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Reggio approach has a strong belief that children learn
through interaction with others, including parents, staff
and
peers in a friendly learning environment.
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It is in the early years of development that children form
who
they are as individuals.
Based on the principles of
Respect
Responsibility
through exploration and discovery in a supportive andenriching
environment based on the interests of the children
through a self-guided curriculum.
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Children are seen as competent, resourceful, curious,
imaginative, inventive and possess a desire to interact and
communicate with others.
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Emilia's
early childhood programearly childhood program
1. The role of the environment-as-teacher
The aesthetic beauty
Atmosphere of playfulness and joy pervades
Organize environments
Common space
includes dramatic play areas and work tables for children
from different classrooms to come together.
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2. Children's multiple symbolic languages
Integration of the graphic arts as tools for cognitive,
linguistic,
and social development. Presentation of concepts in multiple
forms such as print, art,
construction, drama, music, puppetry, and shadow play. These
are viewed as essential to children's understanding of
experience.
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3. Documentation as assessment and advocacy
Teachers act as recorders (documenters), documenting
anddisplaying the children's project work
For children to express, revisit, and construct and
reconstruct
their feelings, ideas and understandings.
Pictures of children engaged in experiences, their words as
they discuss what they are doing, feeling and thinking.
Helping them trace and revisit their words and actions and
thereby making the learning visible.
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4. Long-term projects
Projects are child-centered
Following their interest
Teachers help children make decisions about
the direction of study
the ways in which the group will research the topic
the representational medium that will demonstrate and
showcase the topic
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5. The teacher as researcher
Working as co-teachers, the role of the teacher is first and
foremost to be that of a learner alongside the children.
Classroom teachers working in pairs and collaboration,
sharing information and mentoring between personnel.
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6. Home-school relationships
Children, teachers, parents and community are interactive
and work together. Deepen children's inquiry and theory building
about the world
around them
Programs in Reggio are family centered.
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