Bringing Learning to Life

Bringing Learning to Life

Author: Louise Boyd Cadwell

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0807742961

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Building on her enormously popular book, Bringing Reggio Emilia Home, Louise Cadwell helps American educators understand what it means to use ideas from the Reggio Approach in their classrooms. In new and dynamic ways, Cadwell once again takes readers inside the day-to-day practice of a group of early childhood educators. This time she describes the growth and evolution of the work in the St. Louis Reggio Collaborative over the past 10 years.


Bringing Reggio Emilia Home

Bringing Reggio Emilia Home

Author: Louise Boyd Cadwell

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 1997-09-19

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780807736609

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Bringing Reggio Emilia Home is the first book to integrate the experiences of one American teacher on a year-long internship in the preschools of Reggio, with a four-year adaptation effort in one American school. The lively text includes many "mini-stories" of preschool and kindergarten-age children, teachers, and parents who embark on journeys of learning together. These journeys take shape in language, in drawings, in tempera paint and clay, in outdoor excursions, and in the imaginations of both the children and adults. This informative and accessible work features photographs of the children (both in Italy and the United States) and samples of the children’s work, including some in full colour. During the past 10 years there has been a tremendous interest among early childhood educators and parents in the innovative approaches to teaching pioneered in the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the Reggio Approach! Teachers, especially those in early childhood, teacher educators, policy makers, administrators, and parents will find it invaluable.


Bringing the Froebel Approach to Your Early Years Practice

Bringing the Froebel Approach to Your Early Years Practice

Author: Helen Tovey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0415567300

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This work looks at the founder of the kindergarten and his profound influence on provision and practice for young children today. It looks at Froebel's theory of a garden for children and why he believed that play is central to young children's learning.


Bringing the Reggio Approach to Your Early Years Practice

Bringing the Reggio Approach to Your Early Years Practice

Author: Linda Thornton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-06-11

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 1135395381

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Have you ever wondered what the Reggio approach is really all about, why it works, and how it can be used to benefit the young children in your setting? Well this book will answer all your questions and more!


Understanding the Reggio Approach

Understanding the Reggio Approach

Author: Pat Brunton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0415557712

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Providing an overview of the historical and social background of the Reggio Approach, this book encourages practitioners to look at their individual settings and existing practice in relation to the approach.


Twelve Best Practices for Early Childhood Education

Twelve Best Practices for Early Childhood Education

Author: Ann Lewin-Benham

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2015-04-24

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0807771392

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Popular author Ann Lewin-Benham draws on her experience with the Reggio Approach to present 12 "best practices" inspired not only by Reggio, but also by play-based and Montessori approaches to early childhood education. These practices are demonstrated, one per chapter, with scenarios from classrooms, dialogues of children and teachers, and work samples showing the outcome of using each practice. This resource includes a self-assessment tool to assist you in examining your practices and those of your school.


An Encounter with Reggio Emilia

An Encounter with Reggio Emilia

Author: Linda Kinney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-11-26

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1134078935

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The documentation of young children's learning plays a vital role in the pre-schools of Reggio Emilia. This leading edge approach to bringing record-keeping and assessment into the heart of young children's learning is envied and emulated by educators around the world. This unique, accessible and inspiring book is based upon a documentary approach successfully implemented by Stirling Council in Scotland, whose pre-school educators experienced dramatic improvements in their understandings about young children, how they learn and the potential unleashed in successfully engaging families in the learning process. This approach, which is based on careful listening to children and observation of their interests and concerns, centres around recording and commentating on children's learning through photos, wall displays, videos and a variety of different media. The authors, both experienced educators include chapters here on: why early years’ educators should use documentation as a means to enhance young children's learning the values, principles and theories that underlie the 'Reggio' approach how to implement documentations into any early years setting, with real-life case studies and hints for avoiding common pitfalls how to involve, inspire and enthuse families and the wider community


Emergent Curriculum in the Primary Classroom

Emergent Curriculum in the Primary Classroom

Author: Carol Anne Wien

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2015-04-26

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0807773689

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How is a compelling, exemplary curriculum created in schools in spite of the pressures to implement a standardized one? In this book, teachers and principals share their experiences with emergent curriculum, and with the creative practices they’ve developed in urban classrooms kindergarten to 3rd grade. We learn what they were trying to do, how they began the process, the challenges they faced, the decisions they made, and what happened to the children. All chapters are written by teachers who have found ways of interpreting the Reggio approach to enrich their teaching within the confines of traditional schools. This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand emergent curriculum and for all who hope to nurture an enlivening, energizing way to learn in classrooms. The inspiring stories presented here illustrate: Ways that early childhood values and practices have been sustained and promoted in elementary schools. Exemplary teaching practice, where children want to learn and teachers want to teach. How the influence of the Reggio Emilia approach is reaching into urban public school environments with diverse populations. Democratic participatory teaching that offers visions of responsible citizenship for children. “This book is a treasure trove of useful frameworks, wonderful teacher stories, and memorable insights. It demonstrates the remarkable potential of children and teachers, and it clarifies how North American elementary school educators can take hold of ideas from Reggio Emilia and integrate them with their own ideals and standards.” —Carolyn Pope Edwards, University of Nebraska–Lincoln “Carol Anne Wien demonstrates again that she can illustrate complex ideas—this time the theories underlying the Reggio Emilia approach—in innovative ways for a broad audience.” —Celia Genishi, Teachers College, Columbia University “A must read for educators seeking an antidote to prescriptive curricular practice that respects neither children nor teachers.” —Curt Dudley-Marling, Lynch School of Education, Boston College “This book provides long overdue and compelling pathways for extending Reggio Emilia principles into the primary grades. It will encourage readers to feel their way into the spirit and substance of emergent curricula and come away rejuvenated.” —Daniel Scheinfeld, Erikson Institute, Chicago, Illinois


Working in the Reggio Way

Working in the Reggio Way

Author: Julianne Wurm

Publisher: Redleaf Press

Published: 2005-06-01

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1929610645

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Practical ways to bring the practices of Reggio Emilia to your classroom.