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Reggio Emilia Related Publications
Bambini:
The Italian Approach to Infant/Toddler Care
$24.95
Lella Gandini and Carolyn Pope Edwards, editors.
2001, Illus. softbound, 237pp.
Features the work of prominent scholars, policy makers, researchers, administrators, and practicing teachers who have created and directed the infant/toddler care systems in four Italian cities. Joined by American educators and researchers (including Ron Lally, Rebecca New, and Jeanne Goldaber), their work builds upon and extends inclusionary and familty-centered philosophies.
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Bambini: Early Care and Education in Pistoia, Italy. A Child-Friendly City
Companion Video
$95.00
Carolyn Pope Edwards, Lella Gandini, Luis Peon-Casonova, and Jim Danielson
2003 VHS Video, 30 minutes
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Bambino: The Educational Experience of the Comune of Pistoia in the Designs and Graphics of Andrea Rauch
$17.00
Annalia Galardini, Donatella Giovannini, Sonia Iozzelli
Edizioni Junior, 1999, illus. softbound, 199 pp
This richly illustrated book tells the story of the over thirty year commitment of the Italian city of Pistioa to its children - how the educational process is rooted in the community which gives children a sense of history and belonging. Presents the relationship between the city, the educational institutions and the community as they work together to create a child centered and child friendly city and documents how graphic design and signage can help identify and promote the central role of children in the community. Concluding essay by Lella Gandini.
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Beautiful Stuff:
Children Learning with Found Materials
$24.95
Cathy Weisman Topal and Lella Gandini, 1999;
Illus. Softbound, 120 pp.,
(A Reggio Emilia inspired resource)
Share the journey of teachers as they explore materials with children and observe and record what happens when the focus is on process rather than product. In Beautiful Stuff you will find approaches to nurturing the creativity of children that you can adapt to any reaching situation. Many of the ways of working and beliefs discussed in Beautiful Stuff have been inspired by educators from Reggio Emilia, Italy and by the exhibition “The Hundred Languages of Children.” This book represents and American interpretation of those ideas and beliefs.
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Poking, Pinching, and Pretending:
Documenting Toddlers Exploration with Clay
$21.95
Dee Smith & Jeanne Goldhaber, forward by Lella Gandin, 2004. B&W Photos,
Softbound, 104 pgs.
(A Reggio Emilia inspired resource)
What can we learn from observing a very young child's interactions with
clay?
Poking, Pinching, and Pretending investigates how one group of infants and
toddlers learn about clay as an early "language." Inspired by the programs
in Reggio Emilia, this guide encourages educators to share the questions
and theories that come from observing and documenting children's interactions
with clay to heighten their understanding of how toddlers explore,
represent, and learn.
Six chapters are organized to reflect the investigation cycle first,
individual encounter with clay to how children in small groups collaborate
with clay and each other.Filled with richly descriptive photos of teacher
and child interactions, as well as with reflective observations and
questions, Poking, Pinching, and Pretending is an insightful resource for teachers dedicated to supporting children's journeys into discovery and rediscovery.
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In the Spirit of the Studio:
Learning from the Atlelier of Reggio Emilia
$27.95
Lella Gandini, Lynn Hill, Louise Cadwell, and Charles Schwall, 2005, illus. softbound, 224 pages.
As the authors state in their opening chaper, "prepare to be amazed." This beautiful book describes the revolution that the Reggio Emilia atelier (art studio) brought to the education of young children in Italy, and follows that revolution to North America. It explores how the experiences of children interacting with rich materials in the atelier affect an entire schools's approach to the construction and expression of thought and learning.
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Bringing Learning to Life: The Reggio Approach to Early Childhood Education
$21.95
Louise Cadwell, Forward by Carlina Rinaldi, 2002.
Illus. softbound, 211 pp.
In an engaging journal style format, the author helps American educators understand what it means to use ideas from the Reggio Approach in their classrooms, taking readers inside the day-to-day practice of a group of early childhood educators in St. Louis.
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Bringing Reggio Emilia Home:
An Innovative Approach to Early Childhood Education
$21.95
Louis Boyd Cadwell, 1997
Illus. softbound, 176 pp.
(A Reggio Emilia inspired resource)
This book is the first written by about Reggio Emilia by a single author and the first to integrate the experience of a year-long internship in the preschools of Reggio Emilia with a four-year adaption 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 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 the adults.
During the last 10 years, there has been a tremendous interest among early childhood educators in the Reggio Approach. This book is a readable account of this innovative approach and how its practices were adapted in the preschool and kindergarten classrooms of St. Louis, Missouri. It is heavily illustrated with photographs of the children (both in Italy and in the U.S.) and samples of their work, including some in full color.
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The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach--Advanced Reflections
$49.95
(Second Edition)
Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini, and George Forman, editors,
1998 Illus. softbound, 488 pp.
(A Reggio Emilia inspired resource)
The city-run early childhood program of Reggio Emilia, Italy has become recognized and acclaimed as one of the best systems of education in the world. Over the past 40 years, educators in Reggio Emilia have evolved a distinctive, innovative approach that fosters children's intellectual development through a systematic focus on symbolic representation.
This new Second Edition reflects the growing interest and deepening reflection upon the Reggio approach. Included are many entirely new chapters and an updated list of resources, along with original chapters revised and extended. The book represents a dialog between Italian educators who founded and developed the system and North Americans who have considered its implications for their own settings and issues. The book is a comprehensive introduction covering history and philosophy, the parent perspective, curriculum and methods of teaching, school and system organization, the use of space and physical environments, and adult professional roles including special education. The final section describes implications for American policy and professional development and adaptations in United States primary, preschool, and child care classrooms.
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NEW! Insights and Inspirations from Reggio Emilia
$27.95
Italy, 2008, edited by Leila Gandini, Susan Etheredge, Lynn Hill
This book of essays explores the ideas and practices of the method of early childhood learning developed in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Contributors from all over North America have written about their philosophy in practice in infant-toddler centers and preschools.
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Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care
$37.95
Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss and Alan Pence
The authors relate early childhood issues to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, and political science in a global context,drawing on work in Canada, Sweden and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Published by Routledge Falmer,
1999, softbound, 206 pp
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Jed Draws His Bicycle: A Case of Drawing to Learn
$23.00
Commentary by George Forman
VHS Video, 13 minutes
(A Reggio Emilia inspired resource)
How children can reflect on their own thinking and learn to ask themselves better questions through the process of drawing is clearly documented in this short but detailed video of a seven-year-old boy who is asked to use drawing as a way to find out how his bicycle works. A booklet supplements the video and presents detailed notes on Jed's work.
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The Long Jump:
A video Analysis of Early Education in Reggio Emilia, Italy
$45.00
Narrated by George Forman
VHS video, 120 minutes(second edition)
(A Reggio Emilia inspired resource)
The role of symbol making and communication as a means to help young children construct their own knowledge is studied in this documentation of a long-term project. Children construct a well-formed understanding of a complex event (an Olympic-style athletic event for four- to six-year-olds) through the use of their bodies, invented symbols, and conversations with their peers.
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