The cultures of families. Parenting and participation in early childhood educational services in Reggio Emilia

Starting from a concrete collaborative experience, the article aims to discuss the role, as well as the multiple declinations, that collaboration between pedagogical and anthropological knowledge can assume in the promotion of self-reflective practices in the field of childhood services for children...

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Main Authors: Manuela Tassan, Daniela Lanzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2022-05-01
Series:Educazione Interculturale
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Online Access:https://educazione-interculturale.unibo.it/article/view/14966
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description Starting from a concrete collaborative experience, the article aims to discuss the role, as well as the multiple declinations, that collaboration between pedagogical and anthropological knowledge can assume in the promotion of self-reflective practices in the field of childhood services for children in the 0-6 age group. The focus will be, in particular, on The culture of families, a project and training process, started in 2019 and still ongoing, which has involved a group of teachers of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia’s infant-toddler centres and preschools. The initiative was born with the aim of questioning the changes taking place in contemporary families in order to understand how to encourage participation in educational services. The pandemic crisis, however, has transformed the project also into a fundamental opportunity for collective reworking of the challenges posed by this particular historical moment. This contribution will analyse the project’s strategy and the theoretical suggestions opened up by this experience, which has been profitably interwoven with the participation of some teachers in training and research activities in the anthropological field.
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spelling doaj.art-3db206d68179482ab33b05680bef87d02022-12-22T03:36:15ZengUniversity of BolognaEducazione Interculturale2420-81752022-05-0120111210.6092/issn.2420-8175/1496613298The cultures of families. Parenting and participation in early childhood educational services in Reggio EmiliaManuela Tassan0Daniela Lanzi1Università di Milano-BicoccaScuole e Nidi d’Infanzia – Istituzione del Comune di Reggio EmiliaStarting from a concrete collaborative experience, the article aims to discuss the role, as well as the multiple declinations, that collaboration between pedagogical and anthropological knowledge can assume in the promotion of self-reflective practices in the field of childhood services for children in the 0-6 age group. The focus will be, in particular, on The culture of families, a project and training process, started in 2019 and still ongoing, which has involved a group of teachers of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia’s infant-toddler centres and preschools. The initiative was born with the aim of questioning the changes taking place in contemporary families in order to understand how to encourage participation in educational services. The pandemic crisis, however, has transformed the project also into a fundamental opportunity for collective reworking of the challenges posed by this particular historical moment. This contribution will analyse the project’s strategy and the theoretical suggestions opened up by this experience, which has been profitably interwoven with the participation of some teachers in training and research activities in the anthropological field.https://educazione-interculturale.unibo.it/article/view/14966participationparentingfamilieschildhood educational servicesself-reflexivity
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The cultures of families. Parenting and participation in early childhood educational services in Reggio Emilia
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title The cultures of families. Parenting and participation in early childhood educational services in Reggio Emilia
title_full The cultures of families. Parenting and participation in early childhood educational services in Reggio Emilia
title_fullStr The cultures of families. Parenting and participation in early childhood educational services in Reggio Emilia
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title_short The cultures of families. Parenting and participation in early childhood educational services in Reggio Emilia
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parenting
families
childhood educational services
self-reflexivity
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