Nursery World - Out of curiosity

Some early years settings in Britain are now engaged in projects that attempt to put the Reggio approach into action as a creative process Central to the Reggio approach is a respect for children's natural curiosity and creativity and their ability to produce powerful theories about the world and how it works. Many of these theories become the basis for long-term projects which provide opportunities for children to express their ideas, reflect, and discuss, question and advance their own understanding.

Central to the Reggio approach is a respect for children's natural curiosity and creativity and their ability to produce powerful theories about the world and how it works. Many of these theories become the basis for long-term projects which provide opportunities for children to express their ideas, reflect, and discuss, question and advance their own understanding.

The trigger for a long-term project, the provocation, may come directly from an experience or encounter had by the children, or occasionally from a proposition made by one of the staff. The next stage involves extended discussion so that adults and children can share ideas, information, theories, attitudes and intelligences and begin to predict what might happen next.

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