ABSTRACT
The year is 1996. Loris Malaguzzi, who in 1963 inspired the pedagogy of the first municipal school in Reggio Emilia and who would guide the experience from that moment on for nearly 30 years, had died two years previously. A sudden death, an enormous vacuum, arousing fear that we will lose the sense of the experience itself. I had worked with him side by side for 24 years. I had learned many things, but not how to do without him. They were hard months and years on a personal and on a professional level but we got through them thanks to our deep conviction that the knowledge, the things we had learned together in those years, was a living heritage, permanent research, an act of vitality expressed in the daily work done by each one of us. And the first, real authors of this continuity, of this vitality, were the teachers who had always been the first, fundamental inspirers and authors of Loris Malaguzzi’s pedagogy and the Reggio experience.
