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
Similar to the portfolio approach, documentation of children's work in progress is viewed as an important tool in the learning process for children, teachers, and parents. Pictures of children engaged in experiences, their words as they discuss what they are doing, feeling and thinking, and the children's interpretation of experience through the visual media are displayed as a graphic presentation of the dynamics of learning.
The children make all their own equipment