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REAIE Brochure

The brochures were written to enable a variety of interested people to have a quick overview about the Reggio Emilia approach and to understand the purpose of becoming a member of REAIE. Brochures may be purchased for distribtution to interested people eg. parents / educators.

One City, Many Children

Reggio Emilia, a History of the Present

One City, Many Children recounts the story of the birth and development of Reggio Emilia’s early years services, the nido and scuola d’infanzia, a research project bringing together the voices and thoughts of many ‘protagonists’ and which refers to many sources.

A collective autobiography, an impassioned history that weaves with other histories, in a long and subtle skein of what Loris Malaguzzi called threads of silk.

A history made in this way could pass for a history that has travelled down the years and seasons without a cloud... Instead experiences of this kind, so anomalous, always walk on threads of silk. (Loris Malaguzzi, 1993)

The narrative is developed through a number of broad themes: city and families participation, the active role of women and women’s movements, the politics of education in the city’s municipal administration, the ties between pedagogy and politics, the originality of pedagogical thinking of Loris Malaguzzi and of the Reggio Emilia education project, and the strongly international identity of what is a local experience.

These themes, all topical and capable of generating new questions on education, on the role of schools, and as their highest aspiration, on the culture of children and human beings, are explored more deeply through contributions and considerations from architects, atelieristas, designers, academics, philosophers, photographers, teachers, pedagogues and pedagogistas, poets, film directors, scientists, writers and historians: the theory of the hundred languages of children here shapes the construction of the narrative form. Certainly, a book which takes sides, on and by the side of all children.

With interviews and texts by Renzo Bonazzi, Simona Bonilauri, Ettore Borghi, Jerome Bruner, Antonio Canovi, Luciano Corradini, Gunilla Dahlberg, Graziano Delrio, Paul Ginsborg, Loris Malaguzzi, Carla Rinaldi, Vea Vecchi. English translation Jane Mc Call

DVD - Everyday Utopias

Reggio Children

Here Reggio Children present two videos that are part of The Wonder of Learning. The Hundred Languages of Children exhibition. They describe a day in an infant-toddler centre and a day in a preschool: the everyday-ness of being together, the strength of a way of organising that is designed but light, knowledgeable but flexible; a special care for the environments and the way of being at school, the idea that the infant-toddler centre and preschool are places in which culture is created.

DVD - Shadow Stories

Reggio Children

The video Shadow Stories. Poetics of an Encounter between Science and Narration from La Villetta Municipal Preschool in Reggio EMilia describes the experience of the encounter between the children and shadows. During a visit to the Loris Malaguzzi International Centre, not yet open to the public, the children choose the shadow of a window in the future large exhibition hall as an element that gives identity to the place. The window is a border element but also a relationship between inside and out. An animated photo-story, alternating with brief video clips concluding with a short animation created by the children.

A school of research, which is not confined to the school building, and that, with its thoughts, becomes part of the Loris Malaguzzi International Centre.

DVD - The Time of Time

Reggio Children

A community wide project that involved children and adults from the infant-toddler centres to the preschools and primary schools, carried out within the context of the important international photography festival Fotografia Europea (www.fotografiaeurope.it).

Photographs and thoughts of children and adults tell of the times: many, different, perceived and measured, awaited. There is the time of friendship, of boredom, of waiting, of movement, of hurry, of the cosmos, of transformation and 'oldness', of growth, of empathy, of listening. The images are accompanied by documentary videos of the project and of the photographic Ateliers conducted by teachers and atelieristas. Equipped with highly sensitive antennas on the world and on things, children question, investigate, re-elaborate, and create new realities with ease.

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