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
Teachers as Researchers
The teacher's role within the Reggio Emilia approach is complex.
Working as co-teachers, the role of the teacher is first and foremost to be that of a learner alongside the children.
The teacher is a teacher-researcher, a resource and guide as she / he lends expertise to children (Edwards, 1993).
Within such a teacher-researcher role, educators carefully listen, observe, and document children's work and the growth of community
in their classroom and are to provoke, co-construct, and stimulate thinking, and children's collaboration with peers.
Teachers are committed to reflection about their own teaching and learning.
