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Overcoming Religious and Racioreligious Othering in Preschools: Transforming Educational Policies for More Social Just Pedagogies
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Nadja Thoma – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
The article addresses religious and racioreligious othering in preschools in South Tyrol, an autonomous province in Northern Italy with a predominantly catholic population in which migration is still discussed as a rather "new" phenomenon. Theoretically, the article draws on education policy research and on migration pedagogy as a way to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Educational Policy, Migration
Promotion of Migrant Children's Epistemic Status and Authority in Early School Life
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Baraldi, Claudio – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2015
Migrant children may display problems of participation in school interactions with adults and peers, depending on their difficulties in speaking the host country's language and understanding its culture. This condition amplifies the general view of children as incompetent in producing and acting knowledge. This paper analyses video-recorded…
Descriptors: Migrant Education, Interaction, Interpersonal Relationship, Immigrants
Utilizing a Global Environmental Assessment Tool to Facilitate Professional Development: The Voices of Kindergarten Teachers in Italy
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Cecconi, Luciano; Stegelin, Dolores A.; Pintus, Andrea; Allegri, Rossana – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2014
This international research project examined the value of utilizing an early childhood program assessment instrument as a tool for in-service professional development and self-reflection for kindergarten teachers in Parma, Italy. Teacher educators from universities in Italy and the USA conducted the study collaboratively. Goals of the study were…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development
Early Education in Italy: Research and Practice
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Musatti, Tullia; Picchio, Mariacristina – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2010
This article provides an overview of Italian ECEC services, their development and educational culture. In Italy, out of home day care for children under 3 became a quantitatively significant phenomenon in the last 30 years. Its development was characterized by the close collaboration between research agencies and ECEC services. A rich variety of…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Child Care, Predictor Variables
Five Preschool Curricula--Comparative Perspective
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Samuelsson, Ingrid Pramling; Sheridan, Sonja; Williams, Pia – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2006
In recent years the OECD has undertaken the evaluation of early childhood education and care (ECEC) on behalf of ministers of education in a number of countries in order to support quality improvement in this field. This article is based on a workshop for the national coordinators of early childhood policy in Sweden, 2003, which dealt with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Reggio Emilia Approach, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Special Educational Needs in the Italian Compulsory School System: A Personal Account.
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Cicogna, Caterina – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1987
Describes the Italian educational system from preschool to high school, along with the events leading up to the implementation of government-mandated total integration of handicapped children into the compulsory school system. Also describes details of this integration in three Verona area schools and discusses problems remaining to be solved.…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Educational Legislation, Educational Practices, Elementary Education