The Hundred Languages of Children
Thinking, playing, speaking, creating, dreaming.
Loris Malaguzzi’s “The Hundred Languages of Children” expresses a central Reggio Emilia belief: children communicate, understand, and imagine through far more than spoken or written words.
- Many ways of knowing.Children explore ideas through hands, movement, drawing, building, music, play, conversation, and imagination.
- Joy and wonder belong in learning.Reason and dream, science and imagination, work and play need not be separated.
- Adults protect possibility.Education should make room for children’s many forms of expression rather than narrowing them.
This page is an original summary of “The Hundred Languages of Children” by Loris Malaguzzi, previously published in full on Laurelwood’s site.
