Deb Curtis, Margie Carter
Redleaf Press, 2007
Many curricula treat teaching as something teachers do to children. Deb Curtis and Margie Carter, best-selling authors in the early learning field, believe teaching is a collaborative process in which teachers reexamine their philosophies and practices as they facilitate learning…
Cathy Weisman Topal, Lella Gandini
Davis Publications, Inc., 1999
Encourage your kids to express their creativity as they discover, collect, sort, arrange, experiment, and think with found and recyclable “stuff.”…
Carlina Rinaldi
Routledge, 2005
The early childhood programme of Reggio Emilia, Italy, has become recognized and acclaimed as one of the best systems of education in the world. Carlina Rinaldi, former Director of the municipal early childhood centers in Reggio Emilia, and successor to Loris Malaguzzie (one of the leading pedagogical thinkers of the 20th century), has an international reputation to early years education, and has spoken on the topic around the globe…
Lella Gandini
Teachers College Press, 2005
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 across the ocean to North America. It explores how the experiences of children interacting with rich materials in the atelier affect an entire school’s approach to the construction and expression of thought and learning…
Giovanni Piazza, Loris Malaguzzi, Carlina Rinaldi
Reggio Children, 1995
The story of Laura and Daniele
Carolyn P. Edwards, Lella Gandini, George E. Forman
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998
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 forty years, educators there have evolved a distinctive innovative approach that supports children’s well-being and fosters their intellectual development through a systematic focus on symbolic representation…
Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss
Routledge, 2005
By drawing upon the ‘Reggio approach’, other post-structural theories and new thinking about democratic politics and power, this book sets out to explore the ethical and political dimensions of early childhood services. With governments worldwide looking for ‘returns’ through their ‘investment’ in services for children, the authors argue that the importance of these services are reduced to technical and managerial matters, without informed consideration for what is best for the child.
Renzo Barazzoni
Reggio Children, Italy, 2000
The history of the “XXV Aprile” People’s Nursery School of Villa Cella (Reggio Emilia).
Lella Gandini, Carolyn P. Edwards
Teachers College Press, 2001
This volume is a timely contribution to the burgeoning dialogue on the Reggio Emilia approach, and features the work of prominent scholars, policymakers, researchers, administrators, and practicing teachers who have created and directed the infant-toddler care systems in four cities in Italy.
The participants of the Margie Carter seminars gave generously to the people of Samoa and surrounding Islands following the recent Tsunami. $1,000 was donated at the Margie Seminar and this was given to the Farmers Store who matched the donation dollar for dollar which made a generous $2,000 as the total donation to help the lives of the survivors.
