The Reggio Emilia Approach was created by Loris Malaguzzi. The Reggio Emilia Approach is an educational philosophy focused on young children’s education. It is a teaching strategy based around the student and what knowledge they hold. The bases of the program is the principles of respect, responsibility, and community through exploration and discovery through a self-guidance. At the core it assumes children form their own personality during the early years of development, children are given "a hundred languages", through which they can express their ideas.
Loris Malaguzzi and her parents came up with the name “Reggio Emilia” from the villages around Italy. It was developed right after World war ll with a desire to bring change and anew economic
