The Role Of The Pedagogista In Reggio Emilia Voices And Ideas For A Dialectic Educational Experience | Education

The Role of the Pedagogista in Reggio Emilia offers unparalleled insight into dialectic encounters between teachers pedagogistas and atelieristas in the world-renowned municipal early childhood services of the city 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 Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres – Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia this book features in-depth observations of pedagogistas teachers and atelieristas as well as interviews with key figures in Reggio Emilia. Children’s learning is thoughtfully emphasised as the authors render the inextricable connection between theory-practice-research framing documentation and progettazione as artful collective experimentation. The authors illuminate how Reggio Emilia’s system sustains reciprocal professional formation through progettazione contesting dominant marketplace discourses of early childhood education as a commodity and re-imagining settings driven by values of reciprocity artistry culture and the common good. By troubling 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 childhood education culturally socially pedagogically and politically. It will be a key resource for teachers leaders policy makers and scholars in the whole field of education. |The Role of the Pedagogista in Reggio Emilia Voices and Ideas for a Dialectic Educational Experience | Education