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expectations of young children (The Hundred Languages of Childhood)

  • 15-08-2014 9:01pm
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    ene
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    Having worked in many creches and nursery both in Ireland and the UK i have seen many incidences of preschool children's creativity being stopped.

    To tell a child to draw something that we see or the way we see it, sculpt something into our idea of shapes or colour in certain colours does not allow there imagination and creativity to develop.

    My manager just sent me this poem and i think everyone would benefit in reading it as it makes some really good points! It is written by the founder of nurseries in Reggio Emilia in Italy were they are said to have the best preschool facilities in the world.


    The Hundred Languages of Childhood

    The child
    is made of one hundred.
    The child has
    A hundred languages
    A hundred hands
    A hundred thoughts
    A hundred ways of thinking
    Of playing, of speaking.
    A hundred always a hundred
    Ways of listening of marveling of loving
    A hundred joys
    For singing and understanding
    A hundred worlds
    To discover
    A hundred worlds
    To invent
    A hundred worlds
    To dream
    The child has
    A hundred languages
    (and a hundred hundred hundred more)
    But they steal ninety-nine.
    The school and the culture
    Separate the head from the body.
    They tell the child;
    To think without hands
    To do without head
    To listen and not to speak
    To understand without joy
    To love and to marvel
    Only at Easter and Christmas
    They tell the child:
    To discover the world already there
    And of the hundred
    They steal ninety-nine.
    They tell the child:
    That work and play
    Reality and fantasy
    Science and imagination
    Sky and earth
    Reason and dream
    Are things
    That do not belong together
    And thus they tell the child
    That the hundred is not there
    The child says: NO WAY the hundred is there--

    -Loris Malaguzzi
    Founder of the Reggio Approach


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