Reggio Emilia

REGGIO EMILIA APPROACH 

At Holy Family we are influenced by the Reggio Emilia Approach. The Reggio Emilia Approach® is an educational philosophy based on the image of a child with strong potentialities for development and a subject with rights, who learns through the hundred languages belonging to all human beings, and grows in relations with others.

Hundred Languages

The hundred languages of children are symbolic and are open to the endless potentials in children, focusing on the belief in the potential of a child’s ability to wonder. It is the belief that there are ‘multiple ways of seeing and multiple ways of being’.

Reggio Emilia in South Australia

During 2012-2013 Professor Carlo Rinaldi (a world leader in education for children in the early years, who has worked as pedagogist at Reggio Emilia Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres  since 1971) was invited by the South Australian Government to be an Adelaide Thinker in Residence.

At the close of her residency, she provided recommendations about strengthening early childhood across the state through the Re-imagining Childhood: The inspiration of Reggio Emilia education principles in South Australia report. The Report offers South Australians profoundly challenging questions to provoke the state’s thinking about childhood. Professor Rinaldi continues to support South Australia in “re-imagining childhood.”

In 2018, educators at Holy Family Catholic School attended a conference on Reimagining Childhood, at which Professor Rinaldi and others spoke.

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In 2019 Kerry White (Principal), Nicole Tropeano-Atyeo (Director, Alive Early Learning Centre at HFCS) and Elyse Nicosia (Teacher) all visited Reggio Emilia in Italy, undertaking professional development in relation to the Reggio Emilia approach to teaching and learning.

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