Reggio Emilia Approach® Resources
Required Reading for Overachievers
The North American Reggio Emilia Alliance offers a comprehensive online bookshop featuring books about the Reggio Emilia Approach and the spectacular books published by Reggio Children in Italy (English). Visit the online shop.
Essential Knowledge in Article Form
Provocations:
- Messing About in Science by David Hawkins
- The Computer as Material: Messing About with Time by Seymour Papert and George Franz
- Obsolete Skill Set: The 3Rs by Seymour Papert
- A Very Personal Road to Reinventing Mathematics Education by Gary Stager
- Minds in Motion, Media in Transition – Growing up in the digital age: Areas of change by Edith Ackermann
- Constructivism(s): Shared roots, crossed paths, multiple legacies by Edith Ackermann
- Piaget’s Constructivism, Papert’s Constructionism: What’s the difference? by Edith Ackermann
- How to Teach Computational Thinking by Stephen Wolfram
Reggio specific articles:
An embarrassment of riches are to be found (and watched) at Reggio Children’s YouTube channel.
- The fundamental values of the Reggio Emilia Approach®
- About the infant-toddler centres and municipal preschools of Reggio Emilia
- A history of the Reggio Emilia Approach®
- Who was Loris Malaguzzi? Biographical information about the “father” of the Reggio Emilia Approach®.
- 100 Languages explored in the poem, No Way. The Hundred is There, by Loris Malaguzzi
- For an Education Based on Relationships, a terrific 1993 NAEYC article introducing the Reggio Emilia Approach® by Loris Malaguzzi
- Your image of the child: Where teaching begins by Loris Malaguzzi (1993)
- Introducing Loris Malaguzzi, a free ebook featuring excerpts from Routledge “Reggio” books.