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Emergencies � researches
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Reggio Children: innovation and creativity for the childhood education
RReggio Children, the International Center for the Defense and Promotion
of Children’s Rights and Potential, is a mixed public-private
company that the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, along with other interested
subjects, decided to establish in 1994 to manage the pedagogical and
cultural exchange initiatives that had already been taking place for
many years between the municipal early childhood services and a large
number of teachers and researchers from all over the world. This new
experience was based on an idea originally proposed by pedagogy scholar
Loris Malaguzzi and carried on by a committee of local citizens and
educators. Reggio Children's aims and purposes are inspired by the
philosophy and values of the educational project developed and practiced
in the Municipal Infant-toddler Centers and Preschools of Reggio Emilia,
in order to protect and communicate the wealth of knowledge developed
within this experience. The aims of Reggio Children include: to communicate
a forceful idea of childhood and of children's rights, potentials,
and resources, which are often unrecognized or neglected; to promote
studies, research, and experimentation in education, with particular
emphasis on children's active, constructive, and creative learning
processes; to advance the professionalism and culture of teachers,
promoting a greater awareness of the value of collegial work and of
meaningful relationships with the children and their families; to
highlight the value of research, observation, interpretation, and
documentation of children's knowledge-building and thinking processes;
to organize guided visits to educational programs, cultural initiatives,
exhibitions, seminars, conferences, professional development courses
on the issues of education and the culture of childhood.
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Emergenze - ricerche e progetti che fanno la differenza.
Reggio Children: innovazione
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