"If I listen, I forget. If I see, I remember. If I do, I understand"
CREO: BimBi Italiani’s cultural labs enable children to learn through expressive arts. CREO labs stimulate personal growth, creativity, and exploration.
Through CREO children learn Italian language, culture, and traditions by doing and creating new things.
CREO is based on two main approaches:
The Reggio Emilia approach by Loris Malaguzzi, which favors the use of “ateliers” (workshops) and the environment to stimulate learning through exploration.
The Children’s Worshops by Bruno Munari, which use visual and experimental arts to develop observation, analytical, projectile, and tactile skills.
Children learn and communicate through mini-workshops and creating projects. The focus is the process not the product.
Mini workshops: Children explore art, culture, and traditions through theme-based workshops using music, movement, design, photography, and cooking, among other things.
Projects: Children communicate and interact with peers, materials, and their environment to create projects and stimulate new ideas.
WHY “CREO”
CREO comes from the word “create,” and create comes from the Sanskrit Kar which means MAKE. Kar-tr refers to someone who is able to create something out of nothing.
WHY WAS "CREO" DEVELOPED
Italian children living abroad have limited access to extracurricular activities focusing on their culture, language, and traditions. Through workshop-style, experimental activities, they can do this in a stimulating and interactive way.
CREO'S OBJECTIVE
Ensure children learn about Italian culture and traditions while developing phonetic and language skills through activities that are fun and interactive and focus on personal growth and development.
CREO teaches children about Italian culture and traditions through creative, interactive workshops.
THE VALUES
Ensure children learn about Italian culture and traditions while developing phonetic and language skills through activities that are fun and interactive and focus on personal growth and development.
Diversity
Emphaty
Respect
Interdependence
Pedagogical documentation makes learning visible
HOW IS THE CREO CHILD?
Curious: He likes to learn and experiment new things.
Creative: She uses her imagination to create and learn.
Enterprising: She’s inventive and resourceful.
Active: He likes to learn by doing.
Interactive: She likes to engage with the artist that guides him, with the environment, with the materials and with the children he is co-creating with.
The CREO child learns Italian language and tradition through different form of expressive arts
THE ELEMENTS
Environment and materials: Facilitators hold CREO Labs in a safe and creative environment where children can access explorative and natural materials. The environments are in the form of ateliers
Visual: Facilitators expose children to visual inputs including drawings and written words.
Use of expressive arts: Children use various forms of expressive arts. These include photography, painting, design, music, movement, cooking, theatre, and storytelling etc.
Interactivity: Children interact with one another, with the environment, and the facilitator guiding them. Children are active. They collaborate and co-create.
Fun: Labs are never boring. Children have fun!
CREO is based on pedagogical approach that stimulates the learning of culture, language and tradition through project-based activities and mini-workshops. Children create and communicate. The focus is on the process not the product.
THE PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES
Mini workshops: Children explore art, culture, and traditions through theme-based workshops using music, movement, design, photography, and cooking, among other things.
Projects: Children communicate and interact with peers, materials, and their environment to create projects and stimulate new ideas.
WHO FACILITATES THE LABS?
Theme experts facilitate the CREO labs. The CREO team plans the content and structure of each lab to ensure each mini workshop is in line with the pedagogical approach and BimBi Italiani vision and objectives.
The CREO Lab are conducted:
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IN WHAT LANGUAGE ARE THE CREO LABS AVAILABLE?
The CREO cultural lab are available in Italian, for Italian children, and in English for non-Italians interested to learn about Italian language, culture, and arts.