Talk:Reggio Emilia approach

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hi, i am currently doing an individual research proposal on the Reggio approach, on how effective their methods are in meeting the needs of the children. i have been searching the net for weeks looking for articles. do you know of any sites that may contain them or any other way of getting some?

== why do you think the Reggio approach is not international?

-the difficulty is that you cannot "do Reggio". it is a town in Italy :). Though many of the ideas and concepts used in Reggio Emilia can be adapted for use outside of Italy, it exists as it does due to the very nature of the culture it is embedded in...we can't copy the culture without changing our towns, neighborhoods, politics, parents, way of life...we can (and do, internationally) take what we see as the best parts that can be adapted and explore ways to introduce them in our own classrooms.... --71.104.42.35 05:18, 24 January 2006 (UTC)(-written by a public kindergarten teacher who no longer has any power to teach this way due to the political landscape associated with education)

It would be nice if this article actually DESCRIBED the "R-E approach" in the top section, as is, well, sort of the NORM for Wikipedia entries. (Yes, I'm being snide - sorry - this article is insufferably pedantic and obtuse.)

== I found this article very tedious and vague, as well as obsessed with the contrast between American pedagogy and Reggio Emilia, as though the author had an axe to grind. It should be drastically improved and flagged as such, I think.