First Steps Toward Teaching the Reggio Way

I. INTRODUCTION TO REGGIO EMILIA. 1. The Reggio Emilia Story: History and Organization. Lella Gandini. 2. Foundations of the Reggio Emilia Approach. Lella Gandini. 3. Lessons From an Exhibition: Reflections of an Art Educator. Pam Houck. 4. Reggio Emilia and American Schools: Telling Them Apart and Putting Them Together, Can We Do It? Joanne Hendrick. II. APPLYING KEY CONCEPTS OF THE REGGIO APPROACH. 5. Reflections on a Year in Reggio Emilia: Key Concepts in Rethinking and Learning the Reggio Way. Eva Tarini. 6. Collaboration as the Foundation of the Reggio Experience: Learning From and Building on Dewey, Vygotsky, and Piaget. Baji Rankin. 7. Conversations With Children. Louise Boyd Cadwell & Brenda Varel Fyfe. III. AMERICAN INTERPRETATIONS OF THE REGGIO APPROACH. 8. The Challenges of the Reggio Emilia Approach. Lilian Katz. 9. The Challenge of Reggio Emilia's Research: One Teacher's Reflections: Preschool. Donna Carloss Williams & Rebecca Kantor. 10. Implementing the Process of Change in a Public School Setting. Cheryl Breig-Allen & Janis Ullrich Dillon. 11. Implementing Reggio in an Independent School: What Works? Barbara Geiger. IV. WORKING WITH STAFF TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE. 12. How the Reggio Approach Has Influenced an Inner-City Program: Exploring Reggio in Head Start and Subsidized Child Care. Karen Haigh. 13. The Reggio Emilia Influence at the University of Michigan Dearborn Child Development Center: Challenges and Change. Rosalyn Saltz. 14. Using the Reggio Approach in a Children's Museum. Frances Donovan. V. WORKING WITH STUDENT TEACHERS TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE. 15. Observing, Recording, Understanding: The Role of Documentation in Early Childhood Teacher Education. Jeanne Goldhaber, Dee Smith, and Susan Sortino. 16. Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Teacher Education: Preservice Teachers as Ethnographers. Mary Jane Moran. VI. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? 17. Next Steps in Teaching "The Reggio Way": Advocating for a New Image of Children. Rebecca New. 18. Why Not? Joanne Hendrick. References. Index.