For those of you who were watching “Kath and Kim” that aired on channel seven last week you may have picked up a humorous reference to our centers guiding philosophy. In last weeks episode Kim was looking for a suitable Kindergarten for her daughter Eponee-Rae. She was quite excited about a centre that “had that Reggiana Parmigiana!”
Kimmy was, of course, referring to the world renowned approach to early childhood development from the Italian province of Reggio Emilia.
At Little Princes our philosophy about how children learn is heavily influenced by this ground breaking approach. We believe:
- children are unique individuals who are competent learners
- the environment plays a pivotal part in the facilitation of child development
- that Teachers are facilitators on the journey of investigation
- children can find beauty and inspiration in the natural world
- that we are developing competent citizens as well as educated beings
Overall we believe that children are not vessels that we need to fill but that we are, in fact, drawing from their existing knowledge and scaffolding this into a greater understanding.
It's nioce, it’s different, it’s unusual, yeah, it’s noice!
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