Safety Issues

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My experience as an educator is based on my work with the Reggio Emilia Municipal infant-toddler centers and preschools. Reggio is an experience, it is a philosophy, it is a way of thinking. It is an approach that is based on many elements and principles. One of the most important principles is that children have a great capacity for communicating with and about themselves and their world; we call this principle the hundred languages of children. A critical understanding of the hundred languages of children is that children require the presence in their classrooms of different materials that enable them to express themselves by using and exploring these materials with different tools and techniques.


When we walk through the environment of our centers, the presence of these materials provokes a strong impact. They have become languages to tell the stories of the many experiences that teachers, children, and parents carry out in ...