Pedagogy Has Children’s Voice: The Educational Experience of the Reggio Emilia Municipal Infant-Toddler Centres and Preschools

Abstract

Over the years, the pedagogy elaborated and practised in the infant-toddler centres and preschools of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia – thanks to the research, the pedagogical documentation, the realisation of publications and exhibits – brought to the construction of a different language, of an unusual language for pedagogy, where images and words are powerfully interwoven: these images, in particular the photographic “mini-stories”, which are broadly used as a communication mode in the Reggio Emilia Approach, support and give visibility to the pedagogical thinking, which is expressed through a peculiar language, made of contaminations and drawn from different disciplines.