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Cross-border and Innovation – Exploring an Atelier in the Reggio Emilia Approach (跨界与创新——探索瑞吉欧艺术工作室)

Cross-border and Innovation – Exploring an Atelier in the Reggio Emilia Approach (跨界与创新——探索瑞吉欧艺术工作室)

During the two-day training session, participants were invited to immerse themselves in and operate rich materials and tools, this also led them to deeply analyse the Reggio Emilia Approach–explore the relationship between art and pre-school education, reflect on the role of teachers, and rethink how to better support children’s independent thinking and active creation in the future.

在这两天的培训中,我们不仅邀请参会者对丰富的材料和工具进行了浸润式地体验和操作,同时还带领他们深度解析瑞吉欧经典案例,探索艺术与学前教育的关系,从而不断反思教师角色,重新思考今后如何更好地支持儿童独立思考和积极创造。

– EtonHouse International Education Group China Early Childhood Education Research Centre (新加坡伊顿国际教育集团中国区学前教育研究中心)

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Exploring the Meaning of Mark-Making

This exhibition presents:

  • moments of the Earliest Encounters with marks, realised by children from 6 to 18 months
  • learning journeys of children from 4 to 6 years old, making sense of The Marks of Culture using culturally significant mark-making materials.

This exhibition aims to make visible how mark-making offers opportunities for children to develop understandings about functions of tools, cause and effect, imaginative expressions, social relationships and the joy of simply being with familiar people and places.

– E-Bridge Pre-Schools

By invitation from REACH in the spirit of the 2024 conference ‘In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia: Listening to Children’s Languages through the Mosaic of Marks, Words, Material’, we were very excited to bring together our very own poetic mosaic with thoughtful projects that captured the complexity of children’s thinking and learning. 

Our exhibition celebrated the many ways children notice, analyse and communicate with the magic and unlimited potential of marks in diverse ways!

As we pondered about marks and their powerful potential, we invited our EtonHouse educators to discuss and dialogue as we asked, ‘What does a mark mean to you? Using responses from our educators, we were excited to launch our ‘More than just a Mark’ poem as a celebration of perspectives to honour the exhibition and provoke many conversations into the future.

“Marks are clues! They are messages… but you have to slow down to see them!” Willow, 7 years old

– EtonHouse International Schools and Pre-Schools

Many people may not know Reggio Emilia. Reggio Emilia is a small town, but for us preschool educators, it is a place where a legend began.

I feel like the whole town is maintaining, developing, and running this education system as a big group. Reggio Emilia people turn their educational “characteristics” into a “highlight”, and eventually build a “selling point” and promote it to the world.

We don’t just need to learn from Reggio Emilia’s approach that “every child is unique” and how to integrate the natural environment into our teaching; It is also important to learn from the efforts of Reggio Emilia educators in promoting their own teaching systems.

或许并没有很多人知道瑞吉欧.艾米利亚这个小城市,但是对于我们幼教者而言,却是一个传奇开始的地方。

我觉得整个小镇都在维持、发展、经营这个教育理念。瑞吉欧人把自己在教学上的“特点”变成一个“亮点”,最终打造成一个“卖点”,并推广到全世界。

我们不止要学习瑞吉欧在教育理念中所提倡的“每个孩子都是独一无二的”、学习如何将自然环境融合在教学中;同时也要学习瑞吉欧的教育工作者在推广自身教学体系中所付出的努力。

Reflection by:
Xu Liping 徐莉萍
Mandarin Curriculum Coordinator
EtonHouse Pre-School Newton