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During the past several years, the educators at Make A Mess and Make Believe, an infant-toddler-preschool located in Boulder, Colorado, have been studying and exchanging ideas with educators throughout the world around the subjects of children, education, and more specifically, the Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education. We believe that the educators in Reggio Emilia have developed a thoughtful and vital approach to early childhood education for their community, and we are grateful to them for their willingness to share this approach with other educators through ongoing dialogues and initiatives. Our dialogue with the educators in Reggio Emilia has helped us create new meanings and clarify our understandings about children's and adults' learning, to define and give shape to our work with children and their families and with one another.The Learning Community
In Reggio Emilia, education is viewed as a system of relationships: the environment of the schools foster and nurture these relationships by providing opportunities in which children and adults become partners in learning. The interactions among children, families, and teachers are central to the learning process, serving to deepen their understanding of the world in which they live. Loris Malaguzzi, founder and former director of the infant-toddler centers and ...