Happy Holidays Reading List

This comes from Julianne Wurm, who wrote Working in the Reggio Way. Hopefully this will feed your professional development needs!

Here are some of the things I have been reading and would recommend:
Cadwell, L. B. (1997). Bringing Reggio Emilia home. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Cadwell, L. B. (2003). Bringing learning to life. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Carini & Himley. (2000). From another angle: Children’s strengths and school standards: The Prospect Center’s descriptive review of the child (Practitioner Inquiry). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Cochran-Smith, M., & Lytle, S. L. (1993). Inside out: Teacher research and knowledge. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Cohen, D. H., Stern, V., & Balaban, N. (1997). Observing and recording the behavior of young children. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Cox, S. S. (2006). Making learning visible through documentation: Creating a culture of inquiry among pre-service teachers. New Educator, 2(1), 33-55.
Crain, W. (1980). Theories of development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Dewey, J. (1933/1960). How we think. Lexington, MA: Heath.
Dewey, J. (1944/1961). Democracy and education. New York: Macmillan.
Donovan, M., & Sutter, C. (2004). Encouraging doubt and dialogue: Documentation as a tool for critique. Language Arts, 81(5), 377-384.
DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., & Many, T. (2006). Learning by doing: A handbook for professional learning communities at work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree.
Edwards, C., Gandini, L., & Forman, G. (Eds.). (1993). The hundred languages of children: The Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Edwards, L. G. (2000). Bambini: The Italian approach to infant/toddler care. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Gandini, L., Cadwell, L. B., Hill, L., & Schwall, C. (2005). In the spirit of the studio: Learning from the atelier of Reggio Emilia. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Gandini, L., & Goldhaber, J. (2001). Two reflections about documentation. In L. Gandini & C. Pope Edwards (2001). Bambini: The Italian approach to infant/toddler care. New York: Teachers College Press.
Goldhaber, J., & Smith, V. R. (2002). Application of the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood science curriculum. Early Childhood Education Journal, 30(3), 163-169. DOI: 10.1023/A:1022013905793
Helm, J. H. (2007a). Energizing your professional development by connecting with a purpose: Building communities of practice. Young Children, 12-17.
Helm, J. H. (2007b). Windows on learning: Documenting young children's work. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Helm, J. H., & Beneke, S. (2003). The power of projects: Meeting contemporary challenges in early childhood classrooms. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Helm, J. H., & Helm, A. (2006). Building support for your school: How to use children's work to show learning. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Helm, J. H., & Katz, L. (2000). Young investigators: The project approach in the early years. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Katz, L. G., & Cesarone, B. (Eds.). (1994). Reflections on the Reggio Emilia approach. Champaign, IL: ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education.
Lewis-Benham, A. (2006). Possible schools: The Reggio approach to urban education. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Piaget, J. (1967). Biology and knowledge. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Project Zero and Reggio Children. (2001). Making learning visible: Children as individual and group learners. Reggio Emilia, Italy: Reggio Children.
Rinaldi, C. (1998). Projected curriculum constructed through documentation—Progettazione. In C. Edwards, L. Gandini, & G. Forman (Eds.), The hundred languages of children: The Reggio Emilia approach—Advanced reflections (2nd ed., pp. 113-125). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Schon, D. A. (1983). The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Schon, D. A. (1987). Educating the reflective practitioner. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Weber, E. (1984). Ideas influencing early childhood education. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

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Hope all is well and that you are continuing to be inspired in your Reggio practices!

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