This paper aims to explore which aspects of the related theories of `Social Constructivism` and the `Reggio Emilia approach` may be adaptable in our own context. For this purpose, the learning theories in the frame of the recent trend Social Construct...
This paper aims to explore which aspects of the related theories of `Social Constructivism` and the `Reggio Emilia approach` may be adaptable in our own context. For this purpose, the learning theories in the frame of the recent trend Social Constructivism were examined and the educational elements that contribute to the Reggio Emilia Approach were surveyed. The present study emphasizes that the Reggio Emilia Approach is not a simple educational program which can be imitated but that in the beginning stages, it is on the micro-level that lasting changes can be made, with receptive attitudes transforming the framework of traditional concepts of education. From this perspective, this study suggests that micro-level changes rest in the teachers, meso-level changes in the schools, and macro-level changes in the hands of government.