Reggio Emilia, an approach to early childhood that was developed in a Northern
Italian city of the same name, is highly regarded as acknowledged by educators
and researchers world-wide (Gandini, 1993). The Reggio Emilia philosophy is
distinguished by the presentation of an image of children as being strong, rich
and powerful learners (Hendricks, 2004; Millikan, 2003). This approach is marked
as being adopted and adapted to suit particular cultural and educational settings.
These situation sensitive approaches are noted as being Reggio Emilia inspired.