The Nobel Preschool programme are inspired by the integration of the worldwide recognized Reggio Emilia Approach developed in Italy and the Multiple Intelligences Theory investigated by Dr. Howard Gardner from Harvard University.
Philosophy
Educational idea
Characteristics of Multiple Intelligences theory
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1.Linguistic intelligenceThe ability to understand and use language and its structure.
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2.Logic - Mathematical intelligenceAbility to work with numbers, reasoning logic and categorization.
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3.Visual spatial intelligenceCan accurately grasp and clearly express visual space, including the relationship between lines, shapes, and distances, and can also present the above things in the mind with fantasy.
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4.Music intelligenceThe ability to distinguish, appreciate, express and create musical rhythm, tone and melody.
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5.Limb motor intelligenceIt refers to the use of hands and feet, movement, and body language to express thoughts and feelings. It includes the ability to flexibly use body coordination, balance, elasticity, speed, strength and so on.
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6.Interpersonal social intelligenceIt refers to the ability to deal with interpersonal relations, including the ability to detect, distinguish and feel the emotional reactions of others, and the ability to maintain good communication with people.
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7.Personal introspective intelligenceUnderstand your emotional feelings, motivations, and goals in your own Detail.
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8.Nature observation and exploration intelligenceThe ability to understand plants, animals, and other natural environments, as well as the ability to explore both society and nature.
A hundred languages of children
There are a hundred kinds of children
There are a hundred languages, a hundred hands, a hundred thoughts, a hundred ways of thinking, playing, and speaking. There are always a hundred ways to listen, a hundred ways to be surprised, and a hundred ways to love, and a hundred ways to be happy To sing, to Detail a hundred worlds, to explore a hundred worlds, to create a hundred worlds, to dream. Children have a hundred languages (and a hundred, and a hundred, and a hundred), but they steal ninety-nine. School and culture cut the mind and body apart.
hey tell children: don't think with your hands, don't do with your head, just listen, don't talk in Detail, don't rejoice, love and surprise are saved for Easter and Christmas.
They tell the child to discover a world that already exists, a world from which they have stolen ninety-nine of their hundred worlds, they tell the child that work and play reality and fantasy science and imagination sky and earth reason and dream these things do not go together.
So they told the child that there was no hundred, and the child said, "No, the hundred is right here." Loris Malaguzzi Founder of the Reggio Approach.
Cited in: Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica (2009). Let the gift be free. Translated by Katy Xie, Taipei: Tianxia.