This book presents a research carried out by Reggio Children, the Preschools and Infant-Toddler Centres of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, Italy, and the University of Modena and Reggio’s Department of Education and Human Sciences, which tries to reflect on and make visible the mental processes activated in young children by their understanding and producing visual metaphor in the context of early years services.
Creativity, irony, the capacity for creating analogy and harnessing paradox are presented here, for us to welcome them into daily life with more awareness.