A festive thought – visual metaphor in children’s learning processes

This catalogue presents research carried out by Reggio Children, the Istituzione of Preschools and Infant-Toddler Centres of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia’s Department of Education and Human Sciences, which tried to reflect on and make visible the mental processes activated in young children by their understanding and producing visual metaphor in the context of early years services.

Creativity, irony, the capacity for creating analogy and harnessing paradox are presented here, for us to welcome them into daily life with more awareness.

Edited by Elena Corte, Sara De Poi, Claudia Giudici, Vea Vecchi, Annamaria Contini
Reggio Children, Italy, 2022; 216 pages
English version