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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 372.21094543 EAN: 9780893919337 ISBN: 0893919330 Label: Ablex Publishing Manufacturer: Ablex Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 342 Publication Date: January 01, 1993 Publisher: Ablex Publishing Studio: Ablex Publishing Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Reggio Emilia is a city of 130,000 people in the prosperous and progressive Emilia Romagna region of northern Italy. Its municipal early childhood system has been recognized and acclaimed as one of the best systems of education in the world (Newsweek, December 2, 1991). Over the past 30 years, the system has evolved a distinctive and innovative set of philosophical assumptions, curriculum and pedagogy; method of school organization; and design environments which, taken as a unified whole, is called the Reggio Emilia approach. This approach fosters children's intellectual development through systematic focus on symbolic representation, as children are encouraged to explore their environment and express themselves through words, movement, drawing, painting, playing, and other natural modes of expression. The Hundred Languages of Children offers a comprehensive exploration of the Reggio Emilia approach. It provides a unique forum in which noted Italian and North American educators and administrators who are involved in or studying the program examine its origins, explain its rationale and practice, and demonstrate how its principles can be applied in American classrooms. "... This volume deserves careful reading, for it dispels the prevailing view of Reggio as an art-education curriculum and casts it as a comprehensive child development program. ... a comfortable, stimulating thought journey ..." -Carol Brunson Phillips, Executive Director, Council for Early Childhood Professional Recognition, Washington, D.C. "... a remarkable collection of essays which provide the reader with a much more thorough understanding of this approach to the education of young children ... If American educators read only one book on early childhood education this year, let it be this one. " -Dimensions of Early Childhood. "... this book makes a unique and important contribution to early childhood education. It no doubt will be considered a valuable resource by early childhood educators everywhere ..." -Holistic Education, Carol Seefeldt, Institute of Child Study, University of Maryland "... a rich resource ... a comfort and a challenge to anyone in the Expeditionary Learning Community ..." -Outward Bound, newsletter of Expeditionary Learning, Leah Rugen, Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Textbook On Reggio Emilia For the USALong heralded as early childhood education in one of its purest forms, Edwards, Gandini, and George Foreman give us this complete volume laying down the fundamentals of this non-transplantable approach to teaching young children that has been used in Reggio Emilia, Italy for generations. There are many superlatives. First, we get seven chapters detailing Reggio Emilia from those who were instrumental in its creation (i.e. Loris Malaguzzi) to those who actually administered the system ... Read More Rating:  - Jackie Loehwing's Review of The Hundred Languages of ChildrenThis book outlines an early childhood program originating in schools in Italy. Since the 1980's, schools in the United States have been intrigued by the way education for young learners is designed. The Reggio Emilia approach is a community effort that requires heavy involvement from administrators, teachers, parents, children, and government. Teachers guide student learning based completely on student interest and take students through learning experiences that encompass these interests. Teachers ... Read More Rating: - An Inspirational Book!Being an Early Childhood Education student, my dream is to teach children and to teach them in the best way possible. I was first introduced to Reggio Emilia in a lecture at University early this year. During this lecture I learnt of this marvellous book that told the story of Reggio Emilia. I haven't been able to put the book down since! I have become totally inspired by what I have read, about the theories, ideas and beliefs behind this special educational community that is Reggio Emilia. From this ... Read More 
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