ReFocus is the UK network of early childhood educators, artists and others influenced in their practice by the preschools of Reggio Emilia

Articles Include:

• 'When Pedagogy and Atelier Meet'  by Claudia Guidici 
• 'From Display to Visable Thinking' by  Debi Keyte Hartland
• 'Making Art: Beauty, Metaphor and Relationships'  by Jess Tomlinson
• 'Rethinking Resources'  by  Emma Pace
• 'Non-Verbal Storytelling' by Mike Akers and Sandra Barefoot
• 'Everyday Creativity''  by  Melodie Glass and Eloise Robinson
• 'With Inclusion and Creativity in Mind'  by Louise Jackson

ReFocus is the UK network of early childhood educators, artists and others influenced in their practice by the preschools of Reggio Emilia

Articles Include:

• The Fascinator Trap - Jane Bravery
• Exploring in a Cambridge Forest - Ruth Sapsed and Filipa Pereira-Stubbs
• What's the problem, guys? - Mariette Heaney
• Exchange and dialogue with Sweden - Emma Pace
• Ready-packaged or well-rooted? - Annica Wennstrom
• The Wonder of Learning: The Cultural Challenge from Reggio - Speech by Harold Gothson
• Interview with Jan Millikan - Lella Gandini, Elin Swedenmark and Judith Allen Kaminsky
• Spirals - Kirsty Liljegren

ReFocus is the UK network of early childhood educators, artists and others influenced in their practice by the preschools of Reggio Emilia

Articles Include:

• Conversations with Loris Malaguzzi - Jorn Moestrup and Karin Eskesen 
• A Generous Environment - Diane Rich, Mary Jane Drummond and Cathy Myer
• On an education for being -Jacqui Cousins
• A Place to Be - Review - Emma Pace
• Reflecting on the Refelective Cycle - Deborah Aguirre Jones and Liz Elders
• Careless talk costs lives - Robin Duckett
• What's in a name ? - Mick Waters

ReFocus is the UK network of early childhood educators, artists and others influenced in their practice by the preschools of Reggio Emilia

Articles include:

• Ways into the Woods by Deb Wilenski
• Inspiring Creativity by Johanna Scott
• Reggio Children International Network by Debi Kyte Hartland/Emma Pace
• Traces from Reggio by Margot Meuwig and Tienke Van Der Werf
• Venturing out by Chris Holmes
• Opening up to ideas by Tracey Hutchinson
• Focus on North Yorkshire by Paula Willis
• Artists' Interventions by Penny Hay
• Materials and Imagination by Gail Alder
• Watch the Ripples Spread by Andrea Gray
• A Community of Learners by Nicki O'Brien and Vicki Whittaker
• The Developing Brains and Minds of Young Children by Mary Fawcett

The ReFocus Journal is Sightlines Initiative’s early years publication exploring reflective and creative pedagogical practice in the UK: it draws on the wealth of experience and expertise developed in the UK and is a means of sharing learning journeys, philosophy, and experiences amongst the ReFocus Network and wider and international early years community.

The set contains issues 1 to 10 of the Journals, and is a massive resource bank of articles exploring  creative and relational pedagogy, book reviews, position pieces, articles project accounts and much more.

A downloadable full list of all the articles in ReFocus journals 1 - 10 is HERE . 

Commissioned by Reggio Emilia's tourist board, the children of Reggio Emilia's preschools have made a  portrait of the city, along with essays, contributions, and notes on the educational context.

"At night the sky talks to the trees. The trees make a kind of music that comes out of their leaves and the flowers, too; the wind is the loudest music, the air is softest. It's the seed that, when it gets big, says "pine", but in silence, under the ground, and then the tree remembers its name.. "
The way the children recount their personal experiences and sentiments  depict  a city that is positive, livable, and welcoming: drawings of streets, squares, monuments, churches and buildings.

Published by Reggio Children (2001)

Story of a project carried out when children at Villetta Preschool decided the birds visiting the schol gardens needed an amusement park

The idea of 'what to do' begins to take shape during the class assembly. What this idea will turn out to be, if and when the children decide on it,.... In this project the initial idea was to create a freshwater lake for the thirsty birds that inhabit the school grounds.

An account of a creative investigation into water cycles - a scientific & geographic learning experience.

Published by Reggio Children (1995)

From a project carried out in the Fiastri and Rodari Municipal Preschools of Sant Ilario d'Enza (Province of Reggio Emilia), a book that collects thoughts and predictions on the future by five- and six- year-old children.

"The future can only be seen in the witch's glass ball. We can't see it: I don't know if I'm going to be good tomorrow! To know that you have to study, to think with your head. The future is tomorrow 'cause the glass ball shows you what there'll be tomorrow or what there was before."

Published by Reggio Children (2001)

An inventive and profound presentation of the depth of children's learning, imagination, undertanding as philosophers and thinkers. Once you read this you will be unable to regard children as 'infantile thinkers.'

A Woodland Children booklet: it tracks the development of one of the many ideas that the children conceived, and is an interplay between staff and children, the environment and the imagination.

The narrative focusses on the growth of one boy's imagination, and the developing relationship, through it, between him and the group.  Included also is a book of his stories, written two years after his 'mouse house' project.

Everything in this document belongs to the thoughts, discussions, and interpretations of five and six-year-old children, on themes that deal with their desires and expectations, and especially with their requests made to the adult world.

It was a trial of faith and hope, a desire to learn more about the children's maturity and inner logic. We were fully prepared to discover the black holes in our knowledge of children.

A book created by the Diana Preschool

Published by Reggio Children (1995)

Children and adults make the time and focus to talk about rights and what children's rights might be. 

The catalogue of an important exhibition (2007) which is already travelling around the world; it speaks about the developments and the innovative flair of the educational experience in Reggio Emilia.

Recent projects carried out in the municipal Infant-toddler Centres and Preschools of Reggio Emilia are presented in five different sections: a wide interdisciplinary kaleidoscope crossing different languages and media. The metaphor well representing the whole cultural project is the one of the democratic piazza, a place open to the exchange of opinions so as to build up a new idea and a new experience of citizenship.
Edited by Ilaria Cavallini, Tiziana Filippini, Vea Vecchi and Lorella Trancossi
Graphic design by Rolando Baldini and Vania Vecchi
2011, 216 pages