Tiziana Filippini
Reggio Italy
Tiziana Filippini is a pedagogista who collaborates with Reggio Children with regard to research, conferences, and consultancies in Italy and abroad.
She worked for the Municipality of Reggio Emilia from 1978 to 2015 as a member of the Pedagogical Coordinating Team of the Istituzione – Preschools and Infant Toddler Centres of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia.
Tiziana coordinated the Documentation and Educational Research Centre of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia (1994-2009) as well as professional development activities for teachers and atelieristas of the infant-toddler centres and preschools.
She was referent for the exhibit, “The Hundred Languages of Children” and is currently one of the curators of the new version of the exhibit, “The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children.”
For some years she was the pedagogical supervisor of Officina Educativa, the department of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia that works with the compulsory school (6-14 years).
Tiziana was part of the original research group of Making Learning Visible, a collaboration between Reggio Children and Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The collaboration resulted in a book, Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners, which became very well known in North American early childhood circles and all over the world.
My Sessions
PAM2 How documentation changes the way we think of the relationship between teaching and learning
Our educational approach is based on an idea of learning as an active process that is contextualized and always happens in interaction/ interdependency . How we are able to built and conduct educational contexts that are able to welcome the nature of of the learning processes of our children/students, it our big challenge and commitment.
PPM2 Presentation of project
The documentation of experiences realized with children/ students can offers important moment to reflect and rethink our way of teaching and therefore can become powerful occasion for professional learning.
PAM2 How documentation changes the way we think of the relationship between teaching and learning
Our educational approach is based on an idea of learning as an active process that is contextualized and always happens in interaction/ interdependency . How we are able to built and conduct educational contexts that are able to welcome the nature of of the learning processes of our children/students, it our big challenge and commitment.
Panel How the Reggio Approach has influenced learning beyond the early years at Bialik
Tiziana Filippini will be joined by Bialik Staff Daphne Gaddie and Helene Oberman on this panel discussion on how the Reggio Approach has influenced learning beyond the early years, at Bialik College.
PPM2 Presentation of project
The documentation of experiences realized with children/ students can offers important moment to reflect and rethink our way of teaching and therefore can become powerful occasion for professional learning.
MC03 The Reggio Approach: An educational project based on exchange, collaboration and interdependence
In this masterclass, delegates will:Share fundamental key factors of The Reggio Emilia Approach including the image of the child, the role of the school and of the teacher the role of the environment the role of documentationWork in small groups to formulate practical ways to contextualise a Reggio Emilia Approach within your own school environment.