So yeon Son
(director) So Yeon is the director of Little Atelier. She believes early childhood education should encourage children truly to be children:giving them time to explore, play, wonder, make choices, feel emotions, express ideas, and be loved. Her first encounter with the Reggio Emilia philosophy was during an internship at a Reggio-inspired school in NYC in her master's program. Deeply inspired, she joined the North America Reggio Emilia Alliance study group and visited the preschools in Reggio Emilia, Italy, to see how the original Reggio schools are like. There she discovered the richness of the Reggio Emilia approach, and how the educators enjoyed facilitating open-ended art projects with small groups of children, and how they put their effort to awaken and cultivate each child’s imagination, curiosity, confidence, empathy, and joy. Based on these experiences, her genuine love and passion for the children have blossomed in her own practice in Little Atelier of Young Children.
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