Emergent Curriculum in the Primary Classroom: Interpreting the Reggio Emilia Approach in Schools

by Carol Anne Wien

Book Overview

How is a compelling, exemplary curriculum created in schools in spite of the pressures to implement a standardized one? In this book, teachers and principals share their experiences with emergent curriculum, and with the creative practices they've developed in urban classrooms kindergarten to 3rd grade. We learn what they were trying to do, how they began the process, the challenges they faced, the decisions they made, and what happened to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807748870
• ISBN13: 9780807748879
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.8"