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The International Center for the Defense and Promotion of the Rights and Potentials of all Children is a mixed public-private company established in 1994 on the initiative of Loris Malaguzzi and the commitment of a group of local citizens, with the aim to manage the educational and cultural initiatives that had been taking place for many years between the municipal early childhood institutions of Reggio Emilia and a large number of educator and researchers from around the world.
Reggio Children organizes professional study tours for participants from around the world. Reggio Children also publishes a number of resources (books, DVDs) based on the Reggio Emilia Approach.
Margaret Lincoln, a British Columbia elementary teacher, recently completed an M.Ed. degree with a focus on Reggio-inspired practice. She kindly shares this resource, Reggio-Inspired Innovative Spaces: Learning Resources for Primary Teachers, that she developed as part of her graduating project.
Susan Harris Mackay, of Opal School in Portland, Oregon, delivered a TedX Talk in West Vancouver.
Susan Harris MacKay is the Director of Teaching and Learning at Portland Children’s Museum where she provides leadership to the Museum Center for Learning and Opal School. She began her work as a public school teacher because she believed that inviting young children to share their ideas had the power to change the world. 20 years later, she is no less passionate, even more convinced, and feels privileged to have the frequent opportunity to work with other educators committed to supporting children to launch their ideas, and also to communicating and making visible the tremendous worth in those ideas, not only to the world but to the children themselves.
The art of research already exists in the hands of children acutely sensitive to the pleasure of surprise. The wonder of learning, of knowing, of understanding is one of the first, fundamental sensations each human being expects from experiences faced alone or with others.
Carlina Rinaldi
The cornerstone of our experience, based on practice, theory, and research, is the image of the child as rich, strong, and powerful. The emphasis is placed on seeing the children as unique subjects with rights rather than simply needs. They have potential, plasticity, the desire to grow, curiosity, the ability to be amazed, and the desire to relate to other people and to communicate.
Loris Malaguzzi
Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before.
Carlina Rinaldi
Observe and listen to children because when they ask “why?” they are not simply asking for the answer from you. They are requesting the courage to find a collection of possible answers.
Loris Malaguzzi
All people – and I mean scholars, researchers and teachers, who in any place have set themselves to study children seriously – have ended up by discovering not so much about their limits and weaknesses, but rather their surprising and extraordinary strengths and capabilities linked with an exhaustible need for expression and realization.