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Pre-schools in Reggio Emilia lead the way in using photography to enrich young children's life and learning, say Linda Thornton and Pat Telfer Brunton With an advanced level of automation and simplification in camera design, photography has never had a wider scope for use within the early years nor been more easily within the reach of the least technically minded. Now practitioners can take full advantage of photography as a powerful tool both in developing young children's thinking and learning and in assessing a child's work and progress.

With an advanced level of automation and simplification in camera design, photography has never had a wider scope for use within the early years nor been more easily within the reach of the least technically minded. Now practitioners can take full advantage of photography as a powerful tool both in developing young children's thinking and learning and in assessing a child's work and progress.

Photographs and photography can promote learning across the early years curriculum, with photographic images for the child, by the child and of the child all playing an important role in enabling children to develop their understanding of themselves, others and the world around them (see pages 20, 21 and 22).

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