The importance of looking at yourself for constructing your identity.

An A3 folder collection of portraits made by the children at Pablo Neruda Preschool for giving themselves a face, a body, speech, thought, and emotion.

Published by Reggio Children (1995)

A collection of articles exploring movement and dance in early years education:

• A Dancing Journey - Rachel Kurts, BareToed Dance Co.
• Talking in Children's First Language -  Jasmine Pasch
• A Tool to Liberate - Angela Kennedy
• Expertise? Guy Dartnell, Oogly boogly
• Footsteps to Exuberance - Maria Mernin
• Making Moves - Ruth Nichols
• Don't Move Just Sit - Ruth Spencer
• Moving in Time; The Many Messages of a Body Dancing - Prof. Colwyn Trevarthen

This recounts the story of the birth and development of Reggio Emilia's early years services, the nido and scuola d'infanzia.  It brings together the voices and thoughts of many 'protagonists' and which refers to many sources.

A collective autobiography, an impassioned history that weaves with other histories, in a long and subtle skein of what Loris Malaguzzi called threads of silk: "A history made in this way could pass for a history that has travelled down the years and seasons without a cloud... Instead experiences of this kind, so anomalous, always walk on threads of silk." (Loris Malaguzzi, 1993)

The narrative is developed through a number of broad themes: city and families participation, the active role of women and women's movements, the politics of education in the city's municipal administration, the ties between pedagogy and politics, the originality of pedagogical thinking of Loris Malaguzzi and of the Reggio Emilia education project, and the strongly international identity of what is a local experience.

These themes, all topical and capable of generating new questions on education, on the role of schools, and as their highest aspiration, on the culture of children and human beings, are explored more deeply through contributions and considerations from architects, atelieristas, designers, academics, philosophers, photographers, teachers, pedagogues and pedagogistas, poets, film directors, scientists, writers and historians: the theory of the hundred languages of children here shapes the construction of the narrative form. Certainly, a book which takes sides, on and by the side of all children.

With interviews and texts by Renzo Bonazzi, Simona Bonilauri, Ettore Borghi, Jerome Bruner, Antonio Canovi, Luciano Corradini, Gunilla Dahlberg, Graziano Delrio, Paul Ginsborg, Loris Malaguzzi, Carla Rinaldi, Vea Vecchi.  Edited by Rolando Baldini, Ilaria Cavallini, Peter Moss and Vania Vecchi. English translation Jane Mc Call.

ReFocus is the UK network of early childhood educators, artists and others influenced in their practice by the preschools of Reggio Emilia

Articles include:

• 'Everything is a Beginning'  by Mary Jane Drummond
• 'In the Jungle with the Children of Adderley' by Debi Keyte-Hartland
• 'The Racing Car Boys' by Jude Noble, Nicola Balfour, Chris Holmes
• 'Practically Speaking' by Emma Pace
• 'The Four Beasts and the one Dad with No Child' by Sasha Laskey and Ed Harker
• 'Focus on Cambridge' by Mary Jane Drummond and Sue Bainbridge
• 'Dedicated to Loris Malaguzzi, the town of Reggio Emilia and its Schools' by Peter Moss

ReFocus is the UK network of early childhood educators, artists and others influenced in their practice by the preschools of Reggio Emilia

Articles include:

• 'Woodland Kids' by Linda Lines
• 'Making Learning Intriguing' by Ed Harker
• 'Bilston Nursery School' by Catherine Webb
• 'Practically speaking - Clay reigns supreme' by Elaine Mason
• 'Creature Worlds' by Chris Holmes and Elaine Mason
• 'The Life of an Idea' by Robin Dickett and Elaine Mason
• 'A knowledge building project about birds' by Ann Aberg
• 'In the Best Interests of Children' by Jenny Brain

ReFocus is the UK network of early childhood educators, artists and others influenced in their practice by the preschools of Reggio Emilia

Articles Include:

• ' Learning from Laos: Children and environments' by Architect John Waldron
•  'ReMida Denmark: The function of materials in places of imagination' by  Karen Eskesen
• 'Danish Preschools UK Study Week reviews' by Sarah McGahern, Sue Cleaver and Tricia Yates
• 'Focus on Herefordshire' by Sue Peasgood
• 'Elemental materials'  by Robin Duckett 
• The Drama of Clay'  by artist Sally Brown
• 'Open Space, Open Air, Open Minds' by (Kingswood Centre) by Rachel Wells
• 'Sophie's Story' by Trish Prescott and Wendy Lowe

ReFocus is the UK network of early childhood educators, artists and others influenced in their practice by the preschools of Reggio Emilia

 Articles include:

• 'The House of Objects' by  Elaine Mason
• The 'Inside-Out' Project: Can the physical environment be a 'teacher' in itself?' by Mary Featherstone
• 'Focus on Buckinghamshire' by  Yvonne Davies
• 'Learning Journeys: Green Croft Children's Centre'  by Catherine Davenport
• 'Uncertainty and Knowing' by Annette Poulson and Cath Dennis
• 'Placing and Arranging, No Glue' by Solveig Morris
• 'The Role of the Educator is to Stir Things Up'  by Marika Gedin
• 'Threads: The Real and Hidden World of Nature' by Linda Lines

ReFocus is the UK network of early childhood educators, artists and others influenced in their practice by the preschools of Reggio Emilia

Articles include:

• 'Professional Amnesia: A suitable case for treatment'  by  Mary Jane Drummond
• 'Acting Up: Leadership and responsibility'  by Peter Dixon
• 'Playing and Learning Outdoors'  by Jan White
• 'Pedagogical Documentation' by Chris Holmes and Chris Merrick
• 'Community of Enquiry: Do hedgehogs dream?' by Adam Turner
• 'The Energy of Conviviality and Imagination: Exploring and developing ideas through dance and music' by Maria Mernin and Cath Reding
• 'Acting up: Leadership and Responsibility' by Peter Dixon

ReFocus is the UK network of early childhood educators, artists and others influenced in their practice by the preschools of Reggio Emilia

Articles Include:

• 'When Pedagogy and Atelier Meet'  by Claudia Guidici 
• 'From Display to Visable Thinking' by  Debi Keyte Hartland
• 'Making Art: Beauty, Metaphor and Relationships'  by Jess Tomlinson
• 'Rethinking Resources'  by  Emma Pace
• 'Non-Verbal Storytelling' by Mike Akers and Sandra Barefoot
• 'Everyday Creativity''  by  Melodie Glass and Eloise Robinson
• 'With Inclusion and Creativity in Mind'  by Louise Jackson

ReFocus is the UK network of early childhood educators, artists and others influenced in their practice by the preschools of Reggio Emilia

Articles Include:

• The Fascinator Trap - Jane Bravery
• Exploring in a Cambridge Forest - Ruth Sapsed and Filipa Pereira-Stubbs
• What's the problem, guys? - Mariette Heaney
• Exchange and dialogue with Sweden - Emma Pace
• Ready-packaged or well-rooted? - Annica Wennstrom
• The Wonder of Learning: The Cultural Challenge from Reggio - Speech by Harold Gothson
• Interview with Jan Millikan - Lella Gandini, Elin Swedenmark and Judith Allen Kaminsky
• Spirals - Kirsty Liljegren

ReFocus is the UK network of early childhood educators, artists and others influenced in their practice by the preschools of Reggio Emilia

Articles Include:

• Conversations with Loris Malaguzzi - Jorn Moestrup and Karin Eskesen 
• A Generous Environment - Diane Rich, Mary Jane Drummond and Cathy Myer
• On an education for being -Jacqui Cousins
• A Place to Be - Review - Emma Pace
• Reflecting on the Refelective Cycle - Deborah Aguirre Jones and Liz Elders
• Careless talk costs lives - Robin Duckett
• What's in a name ? - Mick Waters

ReFocus is the UK network of early childhood educators, artists and others influenced in their practice by the preschools of Reggio Emilia

Articles include:

• Ways into the Woods by Deb Wilenski
• Inspiring Creativity by Johanna Scott
• Reggio Children International Network by Debi Kyte Hartland/Emma Pace
• Traces from Reggio by Margot Meuwig and Tienke Van Der Werf
• Venturing out by Chris Holmes
• Opening up to ideas by Tracey Hutchinson
• Focus on North Yorkshire by Paula Willis
• Artists' Interventions by Penny Hay
• Materials and Imagination by Gail Alder
• Watch the Ripples Spread by Andrea Gray
• A Community of Learners by Nicki O'Brien and Vicki Whittaker
• The Developing Brains and Minds of Young Children by Mary Fawcett