Who is this course for?

The course The Organization of Environments: Reggio and Pikler Inspirations offers an immersion in participatory pedagogies that recognize the environment as the “third educator”. Drawing on the inspirations of Emmi Pikler and Loris Malaguzzi, you will learn to plan spaces that welcome, inspire, and foster meaningful learning. With a focus on aesthetics, sensitive listening, and pedagogical intentionality, the course shows how educational environments can transform practices, strengthen bonds, and promote children's autonomy.

What you will learn

Foundations of Participatory Pedagogies

An introduction to participatory pedagogies, their origins, and contexts, recognizing the child as a rights-bearing individual and protagonist of their own learning process.

The child as protagonist

Autonomy, listening, and participation, valuing children's voices and multiple languages.

Reggio Emilia: the environment as the third educator

How to configure environments that welcome, stimulate, and express the aesthetics of encounter, curiosity, and collective creation.

The Pikler approach

Care, bonds, predictability, and spaces for free movement, strengthening autonomy and confidence.

The educator's role and pedagogical documentation

Sensitive observation, listening to the body and movement, and photographic, audiovisual, and written records to reflect on learning processes.

Organization and planning of educational environments

Exploring learning environments, the environment as an active educator, aesthetics, topophilia, a sense of belonging, and the integration of indoor and outdoor spaces.

Book included

Spaces in Harmony: proposals for action in environments for childhood, by Beatriz Trueba Marcano. A 208-page book, 1st edition.

Certificate

Course completion certificate for use as a bank of hours.