Book review[001]

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1、EarlyChildhoodResearchQuarterly,14,No.2,275-279(1999)©1999ElsevierScienceInc.ISSN:0885-2006AllrightsinanyformreservedBookReviewTheHundredLanguagesofChildren:TheReggioEmiliaApproach—AdvancedReflections^2ndEditionEditors:CarolynEdwards,LeilaGandiniandGeorgeForma

2、n.Greenwich,CT:AblexPublishing,1998;488pp.(Price:$73.25hardcover,$39.50paperback)Reviewedby:MaraKrechevskyandJanetStork,HarvardUniversityFiveyearsago,thefirsteditionofTheHundredLanguagesofChildrenwaspublished.ThisvolumewasthefirstEnglish-languagebookdescribing

3、theinnovativeapproachtoearlychildhoodeducationofthemunicipalpreprimaryschoolsandinfant-toddlercentersofReggioEmilia,Italy.ThebookfilledanimportantinformationgapregardingtheeducationaltheoiyandpracticeoftheReggioEmiliaschoolsandcenters;itbecameakeyresourceforan

4、yoneinterestedinthecuttingedgeofearlychildhoodeducation.Now,asecondeditionofTheHundredLanguagesofChildren,subtitledTheReggioEmiliaApproach—AdvancedReflections,hasbeenpublished,editedbythesametriowhoeditedthefirstbook.Bothofthesevolumeschallengeourassumptionsab

5、outteachersandchildren—theiridentities,theircapacities,theirheartsandminds.Inthissense,theyareinvaluable.Thefirsteditionemphasizedrethinkingourimageofthechild;thesecondmorefullyaddressesourimageofadultsasteachers,parents,andcitizens.Hiesecondeditionalsohighlig

6、htstheindispensableroleofdocumentationinteachingandlearning,forbothchildrenandadults.Documentationisthekeytomakingthelearningofchildren,teachers,andparentsvisible;inRinaldi^swords,it“sustainstheeducationalprocess”（p.120).AdvancedReflectionsaddsanumberofimporta

7、ntnewinsightstotheearlierbook.Thefirsteditionwasintendedasa"startingpoint/'Inthesecondedition,allbutfourofthechaptersfromthefirstbookhavebeenretained—thoughmanyaresubstantiallyreworked—andtennewchaptershavebeenadded.Thesecondeditionisdesignedtobebothprimeranda

8、dvancedreflection.Whileitservesthesepurposesadmirably,moreknowledgeablereadersmayhaveasenseofmissedopportunity:WiththepassageoftimeandtheexistenceofsomanyReggiocollaborationsandexp