Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/malaguzzis-hundred-languages-theory/5025560/
*Photos can be found in the pdf version of this article.
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I met Jennifer Azzariti 25 years ago, when she was the atelierista at the Model Early Learning Center in Washington, D.C., a school run by the Capital Children’s Museum and D.C. public schools, which served Head Start eligible families. Over a period of four years, I collaborated with the school, which wanted to establish a dialogue with the Reggio approach.
My collaboration with St. John’s Episcopal Preschool started more than ten years ago. Throughout these years, Jennifer and I have continued to share and develop experiences in different contexts, weaving together our different backgrounds—mine in education, hers in visual art. At this point in our lives, our backgrounds, our studies, and our different experiences have supported us to increase our capabilities in learning deeply how to create a fusion of knowledge among materials, techniques, strategies of expressive languages, and exploration, with the inclusion of the Theory of the 100 Languages, which was so dear to Loris Malaguzzi, the founder of the Reggio approach.
I think this article can offer readers an example of what I have just shared. Graphic representations become a “language” for children to observe, read, and interpret aspects of ...