Application Of The Children's Graphic Language In Reggio Emilia: Review And Use As A Reference

"Graphic language" is a symbol system which enables preschool children to express themselves in a visual way through drawings and illustrations. What will be mainly discussed here is the graphic language that comes from the preshccols in Reggio Emilia, Italy.Firstly, this dissertation reviews the application of children's graphic language in Reggio Emilia by focusing on three topices: the process in that children use it in a tiypical project program, its characteristics concluded from various examples, and four significant factors that affect children in their graphic language development and application.Following the review on practice, the author analyses the function of the graphic language in children's cognition development theoretically. According to Piaget, Vegotsky, some art educators and Reggio educators' idea, graphic language is the result of symbolizing and a useful facility for young children when they are in preschool ages.In the last part, there's an art education reform carried out in one of the kindergartens in Shanghai, China. Aparting from the traditional way, it uses the Reggio Approach, especially the way through which Rggio children apply graphic language, as a reference. This experiment makes us wake up to the existing problems and the direction of further amelioration in our preschool education.