Bringing Learning to Life

by Cadwell, Louise Boyd; Rinaldi, Carlina

• ISBN13: 9780807742969
• ISBN10: 0807742961
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

Building on her enormously popular book, "Bringing Reggio Emilia Home, Louise Cadwell helps American educators understand what it means to use ideas from the Reggio Approach in their classrooms. In new and dynamic ways, Cadwell once again takes readers inside the day-to-day practice of a group of early childhood educators. This time she describes the growth and evolution of the work in the St. Louis Reggio Collaborative over the past 10 years.

Author Biography

Louise Boyd Cadwell is a studio teacher/researcher in all three schools of the St. Louis Reggio Collaborative in St. Louis, Missouri

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Carlina Rinaldi
Acknowledgments	xii
Prologue	1	(1)
A Brief History of Reggio Emilia, Italy	2	(2)
Ideas Integral to the Reggio Approach	4	(2)
The Context for Our Work and This Book	6	(2)
The Fall of 2001: A Turning Point	8	(3)
January---The Arc of a Day	11	(31)
The Start of the Day	12	(11)
Beginning with the Kindergarten	23	(8)
Moving to the Newport Room	31	(8)
Midday	39	(1)
The Afternoon	40	(2)
February---The Power of Partnership with Parents	42	(25)
Building Relationships: The Parents and the School	44	(2)
Forms and Structures for Parent Participation	46	(13)
Parents Speak to Visiting Educators	59	(7)
Reflections on Our Lives with Parents	66	(1)
March---Teachers Living in Collaboration	67	(34)
Learning Together Away from Home	67	(12)
Looking at Ourselves Through Amelia's Eyes	79	(6)
Organizing Our Work and Making It Visible	85	(12)
Growing and Changing over Time	97	(4)
April---Living in a Place That Is Alive	101	(27)
Roots: Developing a Sense of Place	102	(4)
Transforming Our Spaces: Transforming Ourselves	106	(12)
Atelier Room Parents	118	(8)
Atelier Metaphors	126	(2)
May-What Are the Children Learning?	128	(32)
``The Pattern That Connects''	129	(2)
World-Making	131	(15)
The Scent Project	146	(14)
June-Returning to Italy	160	(35)
Meeting the Town and the Group	161	(1)
A New View of School	162	(5)
Theory and Practice	167	(5)
Going Deeper	172	(16)
A Day of Rest and Reflection	188	(4)
Nostalgia for the Future	192	(3)
Epilogue	195	(10)
References	205	(3)
Index	208	(4)
About the Author	212