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This episode is the final in our mini-series that I hope will help you to think through the options you might have for your child’s preschool. In previous episodes we looked at Waldorf and Montessori approaches to early childhood education; today we examine the Reggio Emilia-based approach with Suzanne Axelsson, who studied it for her Master’s degree in early childhood education and is well-respected in the Reggio field.  She helps us to understand how the “concept of the child” impacts how we see the child and support their learning, and what are the “hundred languages of children”… References Bodrova, E., & Leong, D.J. (2006). Tools of the mind: The Vygotskian approach to early childhood education (2nd Ed.). New York, NY: Pearson. Edwards, C., Gandini, L., & Forman, G. (Eds.). (2012). The hundred languages of children: The Reggio Emilia experience in transformation.   Read Full Transcript Transcript Jen:                                      https://www.temi.com/editor/t/7JYCugmQ1A92oLkIcXO3GCaAdHUvfOE3E3uxOIQqj_UiOqU7jmpuT2WIxlug0ZZZIi0gKqtTOJ4fj6Z8HpNjdfJWlSM?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=27.54 ([00:27])                   Hello and welcome to today’s episode of Your Parenting Mojo, which is called Is a Reggio Emilia Preschool Right for My Child. So this is the third in our mini series about different approaches to preschool education and today’s episode is going to be a little bit odd for me because I actually know a fair bit about the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education, but I went out and found us a real expert to talk with and I’m going to pretend like I don’t know very much so that we can ask the kinds of questions that people here are new to Reggio Emilia might ask. Our guest today, Suzanne Axleson received her master’s degree in early childhood education at Sheffield University in England, where she specialized in Reggio Emilia language and communication and documentation as a tool to aid memory and deepen children’s learning. She has 20 years of experience teaching in a variety of early years settings including traditional Swedish preschool and Montessori. Suzanne recently worked at Filosofiska, which I hope I’m pronouncing correctly, Sweden’s first preschool with a philosophical profile where she developed an approach to use philosophy as a pedagogic tool for young children, but she recently decided to spend some time collecting her thoughts in preparation for writing a book on how to use listening to improve pedagogical outcomes. Welcome, Suzanne. Suzanne:                            https://www.temi.com/editor/t/7JYCugmQ1A92oLkIcXO3GCaAdHUvfOE3E3uxOIQqj_UiOqU7jmpuT2WIxlug0ZZZIi0gKqtTOJ4fj6Z8HpNjdfJWlSM?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=99.86 ([01:39])                   Thank you. Jen:                                      https://www.temi.com/editor/t/7JYCugmQ1A92oLkIcXO3GCaAdHUvfOE3E3uxOIQqj_UiOqU7jmpuT2WIxlug0ZZZIi0gKqtTOJ4fj6Z8HpNjdfJWlSM?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=100.91 ([01:40])                   Thanks so much for joining us today. I wonder if you could tell us about how you first learned about the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education and what about it spoke to you? Suzanne:                            https://www.temi.com/editor/t/7JYCugmQ1A92oLkIcXO3GCaAdHUvfOE3E3uxOIQqj_UiOqU7jmpuT2WIxlug0ZZZIi0gKqtTOJ4fj6Z8HpNjdfJWlSM?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=109.26 ([01:49])                   It was round about 2007 when I was working in a preschool and there were teachers talking about that this is a new approach to this preschool should take and we looked into it so we realized this was something we were going to do and so I looked more into it and realized it spoke to me because it’s more or less what I’ve been doing all the time. It was about observing the children and listening to the children and making sure that the...