As part of building up the local network of Reggio-inspired educators, a collection of schools sometimes work on shared projects.

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Current projects

Africanarra, a weekend of storytelling by people inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach in South Africa, is held wherever there were people and learning centres inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach and a love of storytelling. The first edition of Africanarra was in 2024 and was timed to coincide with Reggionarra, the original storytelling event happening in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Here are some of the highlights. Africanarra 2025 will be held from 23-25 May, with the theme “Through the Eyes of a Child: Everything is possible”. Here are more details for those who’d like to get involved.

Historic projects

In 2016, collaboration culminated in the Jozi through the eyes of the child exhibition.

In 2017, schools were investigating how children see the rights of trees, as a lens into their own rights. The beginnings of this collaborative project – in which six schools and one NGO participated – was showcased at the 2017 conference in Johannesburg.

“All of this is a great forest. Inside the forest is the child. The forest is beautiful, fascinating, green, and full of hopes; there are no paths. Although it isn’t easy, we have to make our own paths, as teachers and children and families, in the forest. Sometimes we find ourselves together within the forest, sometimes we may get lost from each other, sometimes we’ll greet each other from far away across the forest; but its living together in this forest that is important. And this living together is not easy.”

– Loris Malaguzzi, Your Image of the Child: Where Teaching Begins (June 1993)