Reggio Emilia is an Italian education framework based around a dialectic of theory and praxis. Or, in Reggio terms "observation and provocation." It is radically democratic as all classroom materials are made accessible, our notes on the kids are accessible, and the curriculum is based on child interest. It was created by the community in the famously red Reggio Amelia using post WWII reconstruction money, and based on the ideas of a Marxist educator and theater critic. If any of you teach or have young children, this shit is worth checking out.
i generally just talk about freire because i am brazillian and fuck the discourse about him in brazil is so bad which is fun because he is really well regarded outside brazil when people know who he is anyway will give it a look