The Most Famous Nursery Schools in the World - And What They Can Teach Us - 0 views
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“We have not correctly legitimized a culture of childhood,” says Lella Gandini, a longtime Reggio teacher, “and the consequences are seen in all our social, economic, and political choices and investments.”
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To counter this, Reggio’s schools are relentlessly child-centered — not to achieve notable results in literacy and numeracy, but to achieve notable qualities of identity formation and to ensure that all children know how to belong to a community.
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teachers (and there are two in every classroom) are not there to deliver content, but to activate the meaning-making competencies of all children.
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Context, in other words, matters more than content. And the physical environment, after adults and peers, is the third teacher.
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what I witnessed was a level of listening, attention, and care that came from an unwavering belief that all children, even the newest among us, are social beings, predisposed, and possessing from birth a readiness to make significant ties with others, to communicate, and to find one’s place in the world of others.
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Either a school is capable of continually transforming itself in response to children, or the school becomes something that goes around and around, remaining in the same spot.”