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The Reggio Approach

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An enabling environment is a way where the environment is used in a way to support children’s learning. The environment must be a supportive one which is catered to children’s individual needs to ensure that a child thrives and develops to their full potential. The Reggio approach provides an enabling environment, the characteristics of the Reggio approach is the environment which is classed as the third teacher.
This is an open approach to learning, it is a very child initiated approach; the setting is organised to give the child as much independence as possible. According to ‘Early Education Support – The Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Years Education’ [2000], “The youngest children sleep in cocoon-like open-ended beds that allow them to …show more content…

According to Meggitt [2015], with an outdoor environment “children’s curiosity can be nurtured and their physical skills developed. Also, behaviour that may seem inappropriate or too boisterous indoors becomes perfectly natural when playing outside.” Some parents often don’t understand the benefits of playing outdoors and think it is dangerous, however it is important that EYPs express the importance of risk and challenge in a child’s learning and development; through expressing the importance of risk and challenge to parents it may carry the enabling environment from nursery to home and stimulate a child’s development even more. According to Meggitt [2015], “Children who are sheltered or overprotected from risk and challenge when young will not be able to make judgements about their own strengths and skills, and will not be well equipped to resist peer pressure in their later years.” Therefore, it is important that EYPs communicate to parents that it is important that children play in different areas which could represent risk to give them risk and …show more content…

In relation to the title, EYPs must learn how to ensure that the environment is safe, according to Meggitt [2015], “Babies should not be able to reach or pull down anything which may harm them, cover all electrical sockets and keep cupboards locked and ensure that there are no small items left lying around, as babies put everything in their mouths.” Through risk assessing the environment it becomes safer and safeguard a child’s health and safety. On the other hand, if a nursery does not risk assess the environment can be dangerous to a child’s safety and

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It is important that when practitioners create the indoor environment they take into account of the children and young people’s interest, age and their individual needs. This will help the child to feel valued when going into the setting. The practitioner can plan activities within the environment as this can help a child to learn new skills. A practitioner can do this by using the indoor or outdoor environment, this could be by allowing the child to go on bikes. This will help the child to develop their physical development without them knowing and using play.

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When you think of preschool and education many may think of children ages four to six starting in a school and learning new engaging things. The Reggio Emilia philosophy is a path to teaching, learning, and an advocacy for children (Harth). The Reggio Emilia approach was founded by the visionary teacher and humanitarian, Loris Malaguzzi; the approach she founded refers to the philosophy of early childhood education that originated in Reggio Emilia, Italy (NAEYC). “This unique approach to education begins with a particular and strong image of children, of adults, of education, and of life, and flows from a set of guiding principles” (NAREA). The Emilia program is a way of recognizing what the children know, what they are questioning, and what challenges them as an individual.

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In Reggio Emilia approach, there are many strengths as it supports children that a child’s image is viewed as having rights and not just needs and child has been viewed as beautiful, competent, powerful, curious, creative as well as full of ambitious desires and potentials. In addition, it supports children’s individual differences and needs, documentation that Reggio teachers collect about their students and a mix of long- and short term projects which provide students with a deeper understanding of the subject matter. While the strength in Montessori curriculum is children are 5 prepared for the real world, where they work side by side with people of all ages, they develop self-discipline, independence and analytical thinking, all materials in a Montessori classroom have a proper place, and it is the responsibility of each student to properly store their materials when they are done to maintain order, independence is greatly emphasized and focuses on individual intelligences. The weakness point in Montessori and Reggio Emilia Curriculum: There are some weakness point in Reggio Emilia approach such as this approach puts a lot of emphasis on the importance of large space as is considered educational, Reggio Emilia schools are found in wealthy countries and are attended by children from wealthy families while the poor cannot opt for the Reggio Emilia approach, public schools get limited funding while private schools mostly focus on results and not process and also the

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