"The Role of the Pedagogista in Reggio Emilia offers unparalleled insight into the interactions between teachers and pedagogista in the world-renowned early years settings of Reggio Emilia. It sheds light on the system and culture that cares for and sustains an enduring educational experience, for the common good. Emerging from a collaborative research project with Reggio Children and the city's pre-schools, this book has in-depth observations of pedagogista and teachers, as well as interviews with key figures in Reggio ...
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"The Role of the Pedagogista in Reggio Emilia offers unparalleled insight into the interactions between teachers and pedagogista in the world-renowned early years settings of Reggio Emilia. It sheds light on the system and culture that cares for and sustains an enduring educational experience, for the common good. Emerging from a collaborative research project with Reggio Children and the city's pre-schools, this book has in-depth observations of pedagogista and teachers, as well as interviews with key figures in Reggio Emilia. The authors illuminate how Reggio Emilia's system sustains reciprocal professional formation through progettazione. Drawing from a collaborative research project, each chapter conveys the voices and ideas of key protagonists through interview excerpts and rich documentation, with children's learning being centralised. Chapter authors contest dominant marketplace discourses of early childhood education as a commodity, re-imagining settings driven by values of reciprocity, artistry, culture, and the common good. By challenging conventional views on education and care, professionalism of teachers, and educational leadership, this book will appeal to all those who long for something different and hope to shift the field of possibility for early education culturally, socially, pedagogically and politically. It will be key resource for teachers, educational leaders as well as policy makers"--
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