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The article refers to several international researches on the competences needed from practitioners working today in ECEC settings. It suggests that the complexity of our societies today needs complex competences of professionals in order to deal with the increasing diversity. Being able to ‘stay …

This study discusses the advantages of high-quality ECEC and possible risks of low-quality early childhood services. It states that children from disadvantaged backgrounds show the greatest gains from attending high-quality child care.The first part of the chapter gives a brief overview of the histo…

Durante una festa di fine anno è stato realizzato dai genitori e regalato al nido un albero in legno, da appendere all’ingresso. Nell’albero dell’accoglienza è stato scritto “Benvenuti” in 10 lingue diverse.

Migrations, with their strong dynamics and specificities, constitute an increasingly significant reality of our everyday life, and our social relations. Experts, public decision makers, as well as citizens are called to daily interact with migrant individuals and families. While considering the dyn…

The current international debate widely recognizes the need of improving the quality of ECEC for all children and families. This is especially true when taking into account the impact that quality ECEC can have on the wellbeing of children and families with vulnerable background, including immigrant…

The Sure Start Children’s Houses (SSCHs) programme is part of the Hungarian Government’s measures aimed at stopping social exclusion and eradicating child poverty and malnutrition. From 2013, the Sure Start Children’s Houses programme has become part of Hungarian Child Protection Law as a bas…

Zilan, una bambina nata a Jiang Su (un paese vicino a Shanghai in Cina). I suoi genitori, già durante il colloquio, avevano detto che in casa parlavano solo cinese. Già dai primi giorni le educatrici notano che Zilan ha difficoltà a capire l’italiano. Parlando con i genitori la mamma decide di …

More than thirty years after the emergence of first systematic migrant flows, and more than twenty-five years after its creation, the Documentation Centre – Laboratory on Intercultural Education (CDLEI) of the Municipality of Bologna, decides to focus on the question of foreign families, and inclu…