Reggio Emilia

World's Best Practice

Emergent Curriculum

Project Work

Representational Development

Collaboration

Teachers as
Researchers

Documentation

Environment

Features of the Reggio Emilia Approach and Further Reading

Representational Development

Consistent with Howard Gardner's notion of schooling for multiple intelligences, the Reggio Emilia Approach calls for the integration of the graphic arts as tools for cognitive, linguistic, and social development. Presentation of concepts and hypotheses in multiple forms of representation -- print, art, construction, drama, music, puppetry, and shadow play -- are viewed as essential to children's understanding of experience.

Creative expression through finger puppets