{"id":338,"date":"2017-12-07T18:17:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/?page_id=338"},"modified":"2019-04-16T10:28:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T14:28:44","slug":"the-reggio-emilia-approach-a-panel-on-the-u-s-school-systems-responses-to-an-italian-educational-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/events\/2015-16-events\/the-reggio-emilia-approach-a-panel-on-the-u-s-school-systems-responses-to-an-italian-educational-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reggio Emilia Approach: A Panel on the U.S. School System’s Responses to an Italian Educational Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 – 6.30-8.30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nLecture Hall, Room 101 in the Feliciano School of Business
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This program grants Professional Development credit hours
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Join\u00a0Lella Gandini<\/a>, Reggio Children Liaison for the Dissemination of the \u00a0Reggio Emilia Approach in the U.S., and educators Kathleen Berkowitz, Debbie Piescor and Gina Miele for an evening exploring the U.S. responses to the Italian Reggio Emilia educational philosophy.<\/p>\n

The Reggio Emilia Approach is an educational philosophy focused on infant-toddler, preschoolers and primary school children. It was developed in Italy by the visionary teacher Loris Malaguzzi (1920-94) and parents in the villages around Reggio Emilia after World War II.<\/p>\n

The program is based on supporting the potentials of children, as well as the principles of respect, responsibility, and community. Learning takes place through exploration and discovery in a supportive and enriching environment based on the interests of the children as observed, documented and sustained by the teachers. The assumption that animates the approach is that the children themselves are knowledge-makers;\u00a0that their learning is an autonomous process that occurs inside the social environment created together by educators, children, and their families; and that this learning takes place through dialogue and exchange made visible by documentation of practices.<\/p>\n

The Reggio Emilia Approach views creativity as a way to produce and convey knowledge, as well as a tool\u00a0with which children can express and build their personal and shared learning through their “hundred languages,”\u00a0which Malaguzzi defined as children’s plurality of views and infinite potential for searching and being surprised.<\/p>\n

This panel will explore the Reggio Emilia Approach, its history and growth in Italy, as well as its use in the U.S. school system, through presentations that embrace the perspectives of scholars, teachers, school directors, and parents.<\/p>\n

The panel will ask:<\/p>\n