| Description |
xv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Contents: 1. The Reggio Emilia Story: History and Organization /Lella Gandini -- 2. Foundations of the Reggio Emilia Approach / Lella Gandini -- 3. Lessons from an Exhibition: Reflections of an Art Educator / Pam Houck -- 4. Reggio Emilia and American Schools: Telling Them Apart and Putting Them Together - Can We Do It? /Joanne Hendrick -- 5. Reflections on a Year in Reggio Emilia: Key Concepts in Rethinking and Learning the Reggio Way / Eva Tarini -- 6. Education as Collaboration: Learning from and Building on Dewey, Vygotsky, and Piaget / Baji Rankin -- 7. Conservations with Children / Louise Boyd Cadwell and Brenda Varel Fyfe -- 8. The Challenges of the Reggio Emilia Approach / Lilian Katz -- 9. The Challenge of Reggio Emilia's Research: One Teacher's Reflections / Donna Carloss Williams and Rebecca Kantor -- 10. Implementing the Process of Change in a Public School Setting / Cheryl Breig-Allen and Janis Ullrich Dillon |
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11. Implementing Reggio in an Independent School: What Works? / Barbara Geiger -- 12. How the Reggio Approach Has Influenced an Inner-City Program: Exploring Reggio in Head Start and Subsidized Child Care / Karen Haigh -- 13. The Reggio Emilia Influence at the University of Michigan-Dearborn Child Development Center: Challenges and Change / Rosalyn Saltz -- 14. Using the Reggio Approach in a Children's Museum / Fran Donovan -- 15. Observing, Recording, Understanding: The Role of Documentation in Early Childhood Teacher Education / Jeanne Goldhaber, Dee Smith and Susan Sortino -- 16. Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Teacher Education: Preservice Teachers as Ethnographers / Mary Jane Moran -- 17. Next Steps in Teaching "The Reggio Way": Advocating for a New Image of Children / Rebecca New -- 18. Why Not? / Joanne Hendrick |
| Summary |
Examines how real teachers in real schools are working to grasp the principles of the Reggio Emilia approach and apply them in their everyday classroom settings |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 240-245 |
| Subject |
Education, Preschool -- Philosophy.
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Education, Preschool -- Italy -- Reggio Emilia (Province)
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Education, Preschool -- Italy -- Reggio Emilia.
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Education, Preschool -- United States.
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Public schools -- Italy -- Reggio Emilia (Province)
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Public schools -- Italy -- Reggio Emilia.
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Reggio Emilia approach (Early childhood education)
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| Author |
Hendrick, Joanne, 1928-
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| LC no. |
96003739 |
| ISBN |
0134373022 |
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