Periodical n.1 Jan/Feb 2016
LEADING ARTICLE: Two game pedagogies
Roberto Farnè
FOCUS: CHILDHOOD AND SUSTAINIBILITY
Andrea Canevaro
HALFWAY BETWEEN ECONOMY AND PEDAGOGY: FOR A PROXIMITY WELFARE
Giovanni Mazzanti
The issue of public/private partnership requires a real approach by a diversified and integrated ecosystem offer, in order to reach the widest audience. In early childhood schools, the large gap between received and potential audience requires private resources engagement, financing a service that, when managed exclusively on public funds, would be otherwise hardly sustainable and expanded.
GROWING UP ON CHILDHOOD: SERVICES QUALITY, BEST PRACTICES AND GOOD IDEAS
Elisa Marchioni
We are still far from the target of 33% children under 3 years old attending educational services for childhood imposed by Europe. To increase children share and manage services with high quality, you have to focus on the budget aimed at them. Districts pay more or less 18% in resources dedicated to local welfare, covering almost 60% of management costs, which are normally at the expense of families, according to diversified amounts.
EMILIA-ROMAGNA CHILDHOOS SUSTAINABLE QUALITY OF SERVICES
Maria Teresa Marzocchi
Despite difficulties determined by the uncertainty of the national context, this district kept on investing in 0-3 educational integrated systems services. In order to combine quality and sustainability, the connection between politics and pedagogy is evidently efficient for services plan and management.
CHILDHOOD EDUCATIONAL SERVICES AND THEIR SUSTAINABILITY
Loretta Lega
It seems unthinkable to support the present critical situation of services just by means of financial restyling operations. We need to rethink educational governance and the strategies maximizing its high quality distribution. Education cannot be condensed on reductive criteria based on “quasi-markets”: a “public hand” is essential also in order to face all the weaknesses that childhood is experiencing in our country.
INVEST ON SCHOOL TO REALIZE A COMMON GOOD
Mariangela Bastico
Is the merging possible between sustainability and flexibility for childhood services? “Spring sections” and new varieties of 0-3 services, should prove that it is. Considering the relationship between the public and the private sectors on school management, you quite often have to put aside ideologically characterized prejudices, in order to analyse, together with costs, management and personal training quality.
ARGOMENTI
BETWEEN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PEDAGOGY
Claudia Cacchioni
In order to build a pedagogy founded on deep child understanding, we need a training fit to introduce teachers and instructors to a psychoanalytic mindset and to psychoanalytic pedagogy applications. Managing children and adult emotions should be essential for educators feature.
CHILDREN TEMPORARY CUSTODY
DA glimpse to pedagogic problems and possibilities
Elisa Borrello
Family custody is based on an obvious “paradox injunction”: it orders foster parents “to act as parents”, producing emotional and educational environment to develop personalities. It force them, nonetheless to “not act as parents” . How can we solve this conflict?
ALICE: AN EVERLASTING "WONDER"
Francesca Farinelli
The uncanny literary icon discloses childhood rights, sustaining it with bold resolution. Alice by Lewis Carrol is the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to for children to exploit their being children as long as they can: faulty, desecrating and challenging.
EXPERIENCES, THOUGHTS AND WORDS
Alberto Manzi
How may we support a child in growing up harmoniously developing his/her intellectual skills? The child’s play work is for him/her the best solution to train “cognitive tension” through a constant path made of curiosities, questions and answers, supporting the relationship between thoughts and language.
ESPERIENZE
The game as social transformation place.
From opposition to paradox games
Antonio Di Donato
”Saltafossi” project originates by the need to establish a place rooted in free educational experiences for psychophysical learnings, from arts to natural education. The idea of “critical physical education” is inspired by democratic education operating all round the world.
A question of power: Irene and other children
To study the game, the environment and the relationships
Fabio Comunello, Eraldo Berti
The study of playful activities in a children group and thier related documentation are the fundamentals of a narrative, a playful drama where actions and children relationships create the psychomotory content plot, to be read and understood.
A children theater
Giovanni Castagno, Andrea Chianelli
During the school year a part of a pre-school experimented a theater class exploring the Odyssey. Homer theater has produced the opportunity to face different subjects and play “to pretend” living in 9th Century BC in Greece.