ABSTRACT
The hundred languages is a concept, a wide range of enacted practices, and was a traveling exhibition of young children’s art works explaining and foregrounding the work and ethos of the children, families, educators, and municipal schools of Reggio Emilia. Children tell small stories all of the time and they are woven into their meaning making. Tracing the roots and trajectories of these stories can be interesting in research by documenting how stories are told and whether stories materialize in the kinds of texts that they produce. The supporting curriculum documents exist, in the visual-textual-digital form they do, because of the generosity and willingness of child care educators and families to contribute stories, images, re-tellings, and pedagogical documentation from their daily work. Characters from different stories combined with media-referenced characters and storylines resulted in a variety of mashups indoors and out, with digital cameras and overhead projectors in the children’s hands, playing a critical role with storied and re-storied movements.
