The Beginning

The Reggio Approach was first founded in Reggio Emilia, a small city in northern Italy, by Loris Malaguzzi and the parents of Reggio Emilia. The approach was started shortly after World War Two because they wanted to provide child care for their young children, and also women needed a way to return back to the workforce. The Reggio preschool was a parent run school. Loris Malaguzzi was an elementary school teacher who not only founded the Reggio Approach, but also wrote The Hundred Languages of Children poem.