{"id":186990,"date":"2023-05-26T06:52:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T06:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siit.co\/guestposts\/?p=186990"},"modified":"2023-05-26T06:52:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T06:52:18","slug":"loris-malaguzzi-the-story-behind-the-reggio-emilia-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siit.co\/guestposts\/loris-malaguzzi-the-story-behind-the-reggio-emilia-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"LORIS MALAGUZZI: THE STORY BEHIND THE REGGIO EMILIA APPROACH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theodyssey.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ODM-Article-8-Header.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hundred Languages<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<h4><em>NO WAY.<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><em>The hundred is there.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The child is made of one hundred.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The child has a hundred languages<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A hundred hands, a hundred thoughts,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>a hundred ways of thinking,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Of playing, of speaking.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A hundred, always a hundred<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ways of listening<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\"><em>Of marvelling, of loving<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A hundred joys<\/em><br \/>\n<em>For singing and understanding<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A hundred worlds to discover<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A hundred worlds to invent<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A hundred worlds to dream.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The child has a hundred languages<\/em><br \/>\n<em>(and a hundred hundred hundred more)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But they steal ninety-nine.<\/em><br \/>\n\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Loris Malaguzzi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Beginning of a revolution: How it all began?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12516\" src=\"https:\/\/theodyssey.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ODM-Article-8-Image-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Born in Correggio, Italy in 1920, Loris Malaguzzi was raised in an environment that was severely affected by the consequences of World War II. In 1939, Malaguzzi decided to enrol in a training course for teachers after being encouraged by his father. During the war, he completed a degree in Pedagogy from the University of Urbino and a degree in Psychology from Italian National Research Center in Rome. He also participated in teaching both elementary and middle school in the city of Reggio Emilia at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theodyssey.my\/reggio-emilia-an-emergent-curriculum\/\">Reggio Emilia approach<\/a>\u00a0was laid in Northern Italy in a small town known as Villa Cella. A few days after the end of World War II, a group of women in the town decided to build a school to ensure education for their children so that the next generation didn\u2019t suffer from any form of injustice. They sold two military trucks, nine horses and an abandoned German tank for the construction of the school. Soon, rumours spread across the land and intrigued by the news, Malaguzzi rode to the town to find the truth. After having a conversation with the mothers, Malaguzzi was highly influenced and decided to stay back and help them in their mission to reconstruct the city.<\/p>\n<p>In the words of Loris Malaguzzi, \u201cIt was the women\u2019s first victory after the war because the decision was theirs. The men might have used the money differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The initial days were tough and the parents contributed all that they had to ensure that the school survived against odds. The next two decades witnessed the spread of Reggio Emilia philosophy across the land and many new schools were started. In 1963, the first chain of municipal preschools was established and Loris Malaguzzi was appointed as the director. Until his retirement in 1985, Malaguzzi was deeply committed to his purpose and continued to expand the network of preschools along with centres for infants and toddlers. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theodyssey.my\/reggio-emilia-an-emergent-curriculum\/\">Reggio Emilia<\/a>\u00a0approach still echoes the promise that he made to the mothers the first time they asked him to teach their children, \u201cI\u2019ll learn as we go along, and the children will learn everything I learn working with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Italy to Malaysia: How was Odyssey, The Global Preschool established?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12517\" src=\"https:\/\/theodyssey.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ODM-Article-8-Image-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Established in 2008 in Singapore,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theodyssey.my\/\">Odyssey<\/a>\u00a0was the brainchild of Ms June Rusdon, Chief Executive Officer, Busy Bees Asia.\u00a0Back then,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theodyssey.my\/preschool-years\/\">preschool programmes<\/a>\u00a0in Singapore that catered to the innate curiosities of the children, differentiated learning, creative expressions and character development were few and far between.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12518\" src=\"https:\/\/theodyssey.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ODM-Article-8-Image-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2007, the team journeyed to Reggio Emilia, where Loris Malaguzzi was inspired to create a difference, to study the approach and brought back the best practices experienced there.\u00a0 These Reggio inspirations were incorporated into the local expectations of early childhood education in Singapore. This formed the foundation of Odyssey\u2019s philosophy and pedagogy and it set out to be a preschool that makes a distinction in the lives of the children.<\/p>\n<p>Loris Malaguzzi, the founder of Reggio Emilia approach believed that every child is powerful and can have a hundred different ways of learning, discovering and thinking. This means they can express their understanding, curiosity and thoughts in many different ways or \u2018one hundred languages\u2019. Odyssey\u2019s ethos of \u2018Learning without Boundaries\u2019 encompasses what parents in Singapore and Malaysia look for in early education.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12520\" src=\"https:\/\/theodyssey.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ODM-Article-8-Image-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The approach is a balanced amalgamation of play, skills and interactions based on a compendium of learning objectives for each level of children from 18 months to 6 years.\u00a0 The innovative curriculum evolves and accommodates interests initiated by the children\u2019s responses while accomplishing the expectations of formal school readiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hundred Languages NO WAY. The hundred is there. The child is made of one hundred. The child has a hundred languages A hundred hands,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2474,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4,350590,20755],"class_list":["post-186990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-education","tag-reggio-emilia-approach","tag-school"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LORIS MALAGUZZI: THE STORY BEHIND THE REGGIO EMILIA APPROACH - SIIT - Tech Guest Posts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/siit.co\/guestposts\/loris-malaguzzi-the-story-behind-the-reggio-emilia-approach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LORIS MALAGUZZI: THE STORY BEHIND THE REGGIO EMILIA APPROACH - SIIT - Tech Guest Posts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Hundred Languages NO WAY. 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