This document provides a list of references related to early childhood education design and the Reggio Emilia approach. It includes books and articles about child development, designing developmentally appropriate environments, the creative curriculum, the hundred languages of children, aesthetics in early learning, and the educational impact of adapting the Reggio Emilia documentation process. The list of sources would be useful for researching learning designs and the Reggio Emilia philosophy in early childhood education.

1. ECE 417 – Learning Designs in Early Childhood
Education

12. Does the environment reflect tendencies of the developmental age
level of the children that are going to use the environment?

16. Reflection and Conclusion

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approach – advanced reflections. New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
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42(6).
Greenman, J. (1988). Caring spaces, learning places: Children’s environments that work.WA: Exchange
Press, Inc.
Katz, L. (1993). Dispositions: definitions and implications for early childhood practice (Catalog #211). ERIC
Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education. Urbana, IL.
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on young children with special needs. University Park Press.
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Rui Olds, A. (2000). Child care design guide. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Sommer, R. (1969). Personal space. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Sussna, A.G. (February 1993) participant in delegation studying the Reggio Emilia schools.
Sussna, A.G. (1995). The educational impact on preschool teachers of adaptation
of the Reggio Emilia documentation process. (UMI No. 9606570)
Sussna, A.G. (1997) Personal visit to the Bing School at Stanford.University Sussna Klein,
A.G. (January/February 2002). Preschool program models. EarlychildhoodNews.
Sussna Klein, A.G. and Miller, M. (March/April 2002). Supporting parent and teacher
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