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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Reggio Emilia approach"”.
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TeacherWork: A Journey to Recast the Reggio Emilia Approach for a Middle School Within the Context of Power, Politics, and Personalities
… school reform initiative. Inspired by the Reggio Emilia Approach for Early Childhood Education and committed to constructivist teaching and learning, a group of Middle School teachers embarked on a journey to plan a new way of thinking and being in a Middle School. This ethnographic study …
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Making the Forest Together: Young Children Represent a Shared Experience in Clay
… who are interested in learning about the Reggio Emilia approach in American classrooms, social constructivism in the classroom, and the possibilities of art in early childhood. In this project, my four and five year old students worked together to create a clay sculpture of a wild area …
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Teachers' understandings and beliefs about the role of the learning environment
… In particular, this study was conducted in four Reggio Emilia inspired Canadian childcare and preschool classrooms in order to examine how the fundamental principles of the Reggio Emilia approach were interpreted within a Canadian context. Semi-structured interviews were employed with ten …
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A comparative review of a reggio emilia inspired program for infants and toddlers
The Reggio Emilia approach is a social constructivist method that fosters children’s creative development through organized focus on symbolic representations (Edwards et al., 2012). This study compared the physical environments and teacher-child interactions in infant and toddler classrooms in a …
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Montessori and Religious Education in Western Cape Preschools
… in this study, using a qualitative research approach. More specifically, the study explored the goals of their religious education; the level of awareness of Montessori's approach to religious education and finally looked at how they were implementing religion in their schools. A sample of 4 …
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Reconceptualising quality through pedagogical documentation in early years education in South Africa.
… of theories, thoughts and ideas. The Reggio Emilia approach to education founded by Loris Malaguzzi disrupts the patterns of curriculum and documentation by problematising the limited narrative of who a child is in relation to education. Tracing the messy and unequal relationships that …
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Implementing a Reggio Emilia inspired approach in a mainstream Western Australian context: The impact on early childhood teachers' professional role
Reggio Emilia, an approach to early childhood that was developed in a Northern Italian city of the same name, is highly regarded as acknowledged by educators and researchers world-wide (Gandini, 1993). The Reggio Emilia philosophy is distinguished by the presentation of an image of children as …
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The Life of a Website: An Inquiry into Parent-Teacher Communication
The purpose of this study was to document and examine the use of technology to facilitate communication among the three protagonists of learning — parents, teachers, and children in an early childhood education classroom. Specifically, the process of the co-construction of a website, by parents and …
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Multiple Intelligences and how Children Learn: An Investigation in one Preschool Classroom
The purpose of this study was to gain understanding of how children learn when they are engaged in child initiated, teacher guided activities. Specifically, children's learning processes were documented and interpreted based on how they use their multiple intelligences. Multiple Intelligences …
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“Grass doesn’t grow faster because you pull it”: The way and the journey of becoming an inquiry teacher
There is a need to prepare teachers for a changing educational landscape as more schools and states are adopting and mandating the use of inquiry-based instruction alongside curricular mandates (ISBE, 2017a, 2017b; National Research Council, 2012; NGSS Lead States, 2013). This study brings into …