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Carbonara, Valentina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
This paper focuses on the integration of translanguaging practices in a public preschool situated in a small village in North-West of Italy. Mobility processes and local Italian families' school choices have led to the raise of the number of students with an immigrant background enrolled at the studied preschool up to 85%. After a brief overview…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Translation, Code Switching (Language), Preschool Education
Gurjar, Nandita – Childhood Education, 2021
Italian makerspace is based on the principles of the Reggio Emilia approach founded by Loris Malaguzzi, in which the environment plays a critical role in children's development. Malaguzzi believed that the makerspace is the third teacher (joining family and classroom teachers), and children express themselves through a "hundred…
Descriptors: Child Development, Creativity, Reggio Emilia Approach, Preschool Education
González-Moreira, Alba; Ferreira, Camino; Vidal, Javier – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The educational transition between early childhood education and primary education is a complex moment of change with repercussions throughout the academic life of the students. For this reason, it is important to seek continuity between both educational stages. A successful transition produces for the social, cognitive and emotional well-being of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries
Ada Bier; Gabriele Zanello; Antonella Ottogalli – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2024
The aim of the Regional Dossier series is to provide concise descriptions of regional or minority languages in education, mainly in Europe but also in other parts of the world. Friulian is a Romance language, traditionally recognised as part of the Rhaeto-Romance sub-family. It is spoken in Friûl (in Friulian)/Friuli (in Italian), a territory…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Foreign Countries, Native Language Instruction, Italian
Elena Florit; Chiara Barachetti; Marinella Majorano; Manuela Lavelli – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Toddlers from low-income and language-minority immigrant families are at risk for language difficulties due to early disparities in the quality of their home language environment. The present longitudinal study extends previous research by investigating nursery teachers' communicative modalities and functions, and their relations with the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Toddlers, Low Income Groups
Emerson, Andrea M.; Linder, Sandra M. – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2021
The Reggio Emilia approach is identified as a resource and inspiration in the field of early childhood education. The term 'Reggio Inspired' refers to all Reggio Emilia approach-based practices outside of Reggio Emilia, Italy. This paper presents a comprehensive study of Reggio Inspired empirical research. Results from an integrative review of the…
Descriptors: Reggio Emilia Approach, Preschool Education, Educational Research, Child Development
Aguiar, Cecília; Silva, Carla S.; Guerra, Rita; Rodrigues, Ricardo B.; Ribeiro, Luísa A.; Pastori, Giulia; Leseman, Paul – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
We analysed effective and promising interventions, within the classroom and school microsystems, aiming to promote equality and belongingness for immigrant, Roma, and low-income children attending early childhood education and care (ECEC) and primary education in eight European countries. Over 500 interventions were identified, and 78…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Equal Education, Low Income Students, Early Childhood Education
Guaran, Andrea – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2016
This paper focuses on the reflection on the relationship between values and methodological principles of Outdoor Education and spatial and geographical education perspectives, especially in pre-school and primary school, which relates to the age between 3 and 10 years. Outdoor Education is an educational practice that is already rooted in the…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Geography, Geography Instruction, Reflection
Svetlana Poleschuk; Thomas Dreesen; Barbara D'Ippolito; Joaquin Carceles Martinez Lozano – UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight, 2023
In Italy, more than 700,000 asylum seekers and migrants arrived in the country between 2014-2020. Newly arrived children including refugees and migrants need to quickly acquire Italian skills to succeed in school and society. To help address this urgent need, the Akelius digital learning application was introduced in Bologna and Rome for Italian…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Practices, Independent Study, Italian
Harkness, Sara; Super, Charles M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
The seven papers in this issue address a variety of challenges that parents in several different cultural places encounter as they do their best to ensure their children's safe, happy, and successful development from infancy through middle childhood: infant sleep, developmental agendas, temperament, preschools, academic success, and learning to be…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Barriers, Cultural Differences, Child Development
Lazzari, Arianna; Balduzzi, Lucia; Van Laere, Katrien; Boudry, Caroline; Rezek, Mateja; Prodger, Angela – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
Positive transitions across home, ECEC and compulsory school education (CSE) are critical in promoting children's development and educational achievement: this seems especially the case for children from migrant backgrounds. However, as a consequence of entrenched institutional practices and lack of ownership the issues by the different groups of…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, At Risk Students, Cultural Differences, Transitional Programs
Hospital School Teachers' Sense of Stress and Gratification: An Investigation of the Italian Context
Vincenza Benigno; Chiara Fante – Continuity in Education, 2020
In their daily teaching in hospitals, teachers interact within a complex interpersonal and professional network. The present study investigated what kind of professional relationships hospital teachers have with other staff in their daily work and which factors they perceive as being either stressful or gratifying in their professional activities.…
Descriptors: Hospitalized Children, Interpersonal Relationship, Teaching Conditions, Hospitals
Lichene, Claudia – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
European and international research shows how the child has an attitude, in relation to the knowledge of the natural world, characterized by curiosity and free exploration. My research refers to the theoretical contribution of Dewey ([1933. "How We Think: A Restatement of the Relationship of Reflective Thinking to the Educational…
Descriptors: Science Education, Preschool Education, Intellectual Development, Educational Philosophy
Barrs, Myra; Drury, Rose – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2017
This article discusses the practice of documentation in the early years education services of Pistoia, Italy. The findings, arising from a research study visit in May 2014, provide insights into the values and principles implicit in early childhood practice in the Pistoian "nidi d'infanzia" [nurseries] (for children from 3 months to 3…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Nursery Schools, Kindergarten
Bogatec, Norina, Ed. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2020
The aim of the Regional dossiers series is to provide a concise description of European minority languages in education. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors, legal arrangements and support structures, as well as quantitative aspects such as the number of schools, teachers,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction, Language Usage