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to learn and develop since the very first
day of their arrival among us, our children
are naturally creative, willing to learn
and curious. They try in their own way,
-playing- to get to know about life and
how to live it. Children are capable of
learning under every circumstance. Yet,
there are as well some milieux that can
even back the process up more by offering
many more and appropriate stimuli.
Basics
of our understanding of education is rooted
in the ‘Reggio Emilia Approach’
(http://zerosei.comune.re.it)
that
has flourished in the early nineties and
which, according to research on early
infance education, has been approved to
be the most appropriate supportive approach
concerning child development (http://www.reggioalliance.org).
According
to our consideration of education, the
child, the parents, the teacher and the
environment are the four essentials of
the chain of education. No matter the
infant or the grown up, we are all inclined
to learn only what we are interested in
and curious about; thus each child brings
about his or her own personal interests
and needs. The chain of education starts
with the child as the decisive factor
of the process.
What
the teachers are expected to put in is
intimate, tender and supportive a relation
with the child in order for a better understanding
of their personal diversities and to guide
them through their education by listening
and understanding them the best. Teachers
should provide children with guidance
by sharing and motivating their interests
and enthusiasm and assuring the longevity
of the required support.
Achievement
of the optimal plans for our precious
children can only be possible through
effective parent-teacher-environment relationship
based on mutual understanding, support
and information exchange. Early infance
is when children are the most overt to
reception that is fundamental in their
future characters. Our mission in being
a school, is to reinforce all four essentials
of the chain of education.
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