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"Our expectations of the child must be very flexible and varied. We must be able to be amazed and to enjoy, like the children often do. We must be able to catch the ball that the children throw us, and toss it back to them in a way that makes the children want to continue the game with us, developing, perhaps, other games as we go along. " - Tizianna Filippini, Pedagogista, Reggio EmiliaLife in the early childhood programs of Reggio Emilia, Italy, offers many examples of children's creativity "dressed in everyday clothes." The educational principles applied by the educators in these schools provide guides that teachers can examine for usefulness in other settings. Reggio Emilia is a particular place; the events and activities that happen there belong to that place and its people. But we in the United States also belong in particular places where we can create opportunities for children's creativity to flourish in their very own everyday clothes.
Join me as we look at one journey that a group of Reggio children took into the world of dinosaurs. Notice as Reggio's overarching educational principle of reciprocity appears again and again as teacher ...