My past student wrote a paper on Reggio Emilia. It's posted at
http://www.ematusov.com/final.paper.pub/_pwfsfp/0000002e.htm
I found it interesting.
Eugene
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Lemke <jllbc who-is-at cunyvm.cuny.edu>
To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Date: Tuesday, November 04, 1997 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: re-designs & anarchy
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>Someone who knows more about it might tell us how the Reggio Emilia schools
>in Italy and others developed after the war in the absence of central state
>control may have realized the ideals which Diane and others have sketched.
>
>I believe that before, and after, schools were mostly under Church or state
>control, but that in the aftermath of the war, with normal schools not
>operating, cooperative groups of parents and members of communities set up
>their own schools, and later built their own buildings, evolved their own
>style of curriculum and teaching and so on.
>
>Nothing like broken eggs for making an omelet, eh?
>
>JAY.
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