Lella gandini biography of nancy

Lella Gandini, the United States liaison for the dissemination of the early-childhood education known as the Reggio Emilia approach.

• A native of Italy, she was connected early with the Reggio Emilia approach, which focuses on fostering relationships and learning among children, teachers, parents and community.

Buy Bambini: The Italian Approach to Infant/Toddler Care By Lella Gandini.

Insights and inspirations from Reggio Emilia: stories of teachers and children from North America / edited by Lella Gandini, Susan Etheredge and Lynn Hill.

I had the amazing good fortune to spend time with Lella Gandini, North American Liaison for the Dissemination of the Reggio Emilia Approach this.

A student of children's folkways, Italian author and teacher Lella Gandini is best known in the United States as the leading advocate for the Reggio Emilia.

Nancy Sparrow was born in Lima, Peru.

She would later become the point person for the approach in the United States.

• Gandini’s description of the Reggio Emilia approach: “The starting point is to be convinced that children have tremendous potential already when they are born, so that - in a preschool - rather than thinking ‘What can I teach these children?’ teachers observe and listen to children and construct learning with them.”

• She moved to Massachusetts after meeting and marrying a professor at Smith College in Northampton.

She became an Italian instructor there while completing her Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree. She received her Ed.D. at the Universit