Graduate Diploma in Early Childhood Education

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Graduate Diploma in Early Childhood Education
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Personal language learning
Before beginning with my journey of learning I would like to give a brief introduction
to my educational background. I completed my Bachelor in Commerce from India, but I did
my Masters in English. Since, my bachelor's degree in commerce, I had to struggle to carry
on with my M.A. However, after visiting Australia, I have been enrolled in the course of
Early Childhood learning. But in this assignment, I will not focus on my English learning.
Rather, I would focus on my unique learning experience of Children's hundred languages or
the ways of unique communication that they follow. Understanding their languages and
gestures is a wonderful learning experience indeed.
The hundred languages are the main principle of the Reggio –inspired classroom.
Learning these modes of communication is not only important for early childhood educators
like me but is also challenging. Before proceeding to the personal details of my journey. It is
necessary to understand what is actually "a hundred languages". It can be referred to as the
method of communication and mainly emphasizes on the importance of providing children
with more than hundred ways of sharing their thinking about the world that is around them
(Wien 2015). The hundred languages also refer to the infinite amount of potential that each of
the children naturally possesses and also considers the view of each of the child about their
community (Edwards, Gandini and Forman 1998).
Once Lorris Malaguzzi wrote a poem named The One Hundred Languages of Children, and a
Hundred, Hundred More. In that book, it has been described how children learned through
and in a hundred languages, interweaving their ways of meaning-making and enquiring about
the world. It has been stated in the poem that a school steals ninety –nine of these ways of
learning (Edwards, Gandini and Forman 2012). Like any other teacher, I have also learned
children find their way to the world, the way they express themselves and the way they

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express themselves. I firmly believe that the key to the success of a child in school is an
inspiring teacher, who will be able to develop a strong and trusting relationship, who will
facilitate a learning environment which would promote creativity.
The Hundred Languages
My understanding and embracing of this approach were not easy and my literacy about this is
still an ongoing process. However, while learning about this, I have understood several
things, like how a classroom environment can impact on the learning of children. Initially,
my learning was confined to traditional classroom learning, where most of the time the