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The Reggio Emilia approach is an educational philosophy and pedagogy focused on preschool and primary education. This approach is a student-centered and constructivist self-guided curriculum that uses self-directed, experiential learning in relationship-driven environments. [ 1 ]
Key concepts in a Reggio Emilia school include a child's right to education, the importance of interpersonal relationships amongst children, teachers and parents, and children's interactions in work and play. [25] [26] Its curriculum emerges from the children's interest, and is developed through projects and inquiry. [27]
Fondazione Reggio Children was established in 2011 in Reggio Emilia, the city that, immediately after the Second World War, has given birth to the Reggio Emilia Approach®, the educational approach based on the idea of children and human beings as holders of rights and potentials.
KCP's library, named in honor of Burton B. Fox, is a two-story building added in 1984 and was renovated in 2011. The Burton B. Fox Library contains over 22,000 items and subscribes to hundreds of academic databases. It also houses the Preschool Library, the result of a Reggio Emilia project undertaken by Kinder students in 2001.
Wein, C. (Eds.). (2008). Emergent curriculum in the primary classroom: Interpreting the Reggio Emilia approach in schools. New York: Teachers College Press, Washington: National Association for the Education of Young Children. Wright, S. (1997). Learning how to learn the arts as core in emergent curriculum.
Curriculum is guided by experiential learning and inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach. Younger students learn in a play-based environment, while in upper grades, students conduct their own research and observations, experiencing math, science and other subjects in real-life applications.
World leaders are meeting in Paris this month in what amounts to a last-ditch effort to avert the worst ravages of climate change. Climatologists now say that the best case scenario — assuming immediate and dramatic emissions curbs — is that planetary surface temperatures will increase by at least 2 degrees Celsius in the coming decades.
The Early Years “Nest” area, for children aged 3 - Kindergarten, is at one end of the campus and features bright classrooms organized through a Reggio Emilia pedagogical approach, a dedicated playground with student-maintained gardens and a covered area that emphasises outdoor learning and play.