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THE ITALIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

17th March 2014

Parma

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The Italian educational system for children

between tha ages of 0 – 6 years

Nursery-school

0-3 years

For children between 3

months and 3 years.

Pre-school

3-6 years

For children between

the age of 3 and 6

years.

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The Italian educational system

law framework

Nursery-school

Ministry of Social Policy

Legislative competence

Regional (law 6/12)

Guidelines: Index of the

Pedagogical Project and

Educational Childhood

services; July 2012

Pre-school

Ministry of Education

Legislative competence State

National Indications for the Curriculum of Pre-school and primary school; Experience fields; September 2012

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Experience fields

1. The self and the other: the basic questions, the moral sense, the living together;

2. The body in movement: identity, autonomy, health;

3. Images, sounds and colours: gestures, art, music, multimedia;

4. Speeches and words: communication, language, culture;

5. The world knowledge: order, measure, space, time, nature.

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Nursery school

In Emilia-Romagna the nursery

school is regulated by the Regional Law n.1/2000 “Rules concerning educational services for the nursery-school”, amended in the Regional Law n.8/2004

and n. 6/2012.

As regards nursery-service, it’s important to point out that this law sets out nursery-school features, goals, different ways of service management, opening times, educators and pedagogic coordinator functions.

Pre-school

The National Indications for the

pre-school curriculum defines

the pedagogic, educational and

functional identity (september

2012).

It’s important to point out the

directives help to define service

goals, educational-didactic

proposals and field experience

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What is

Pre-school

Pre-school sets up educational and didactic proposals allowing children,between the ages of three-six years, to explore and discover the surrounding world through a specific curriculum. There is also an implied curriculum made up of factors that define the learning field and make it clear and at once recognizable.

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Nursery-school

Nursery-school is a social and educational service of public interest for all children between the ages of three months - three years. It works together with families for children’ s growth and training, in the framework of a childhood policy that guarantees the right to education, respect of the individual as well as his/her cultural and religious identity.

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Aims

Nursery-school

The nursery-school aims at:

children training and socialization, in order to help their psycophysical well-being, and to develop their abilities in knowledge, care, and social attitudes. Children care involving a costant entrusting to characters different from parental ones in a context outside the familiar one; families support in children care and in educational choices.

Pre-school

For each child, pre-school aims at developing identity, autonomy, competence and social responsibility, guaranteed by a costant and close cooperation between the teachers, families and the community.

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Management Nursery-school

Educational early childhood service

can be managed by: Municipalities, or association of municipalities; private subjects, authorized having an agreement with Municipalities; private subjects chosen by Municipalities through public tendering; private subjects justified in working.

Pre-school

Pre-school, freely chosen by

families, open to all the children

between the ages of three - six

years addressing their right to

education. It’s carried out by a large

number of istitutional and

organizational models which are

promoted by several subjects:

State, Religious Orders,

Associations and Parish

communities, local authorities.

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Tasks of the Staff

Staffs is responsible for children care and education and for relationships with families. They think of service organization and working.

Staff activity takes place according to working methods based on teamwork. Teh staff is closely cooperating and sharing the activities with families, in order to ensure educational continuity and the total integrated use of the different professional skills of the staff.

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The pedagogic coordinator’s role

Pedagogic coordinators should train and support the operators’ work, including their permanent training, and should promote and evaluate the quality of the services, should control and document experiences, should experiment changes in the services, should liase between educational and social and health services, should cooperate with families and local communities, in order to promote childhood culture.

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Strengths

The educational method: based on observation and listening, on a

jointly

worked out planning;

Evaluation: has a training function and monitors the standards of quality of

The educational services. It recognizes, describes and documents children processes of growth;

Value of play: is the most natural learning opportunity enhancing and supporting

children emotional, cognitive and relational skills;

Sharing: It is a way to create and develop a relationship of mutual responsibility, as well as to encourage dialogue and cooperation in order to

build common knowledge;

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Care of the place: the place must be comfortable, warm, tidy, taste-oriented; it must express the pedagogy and the educational choices of each school. It’s a place that recalls the children who live there, their importance, their needs of playing, moving, expressing, of feeling alone and of socializing. Children like living in this place thanks to its physical surroundings, its furniture and objects that create a functional and pleasant environment; Organization of times: the time shall be relaxed, so children are allowed to play, explore, talk, observe, listen, understand and grow up in a safe and quiet way. So they can feel self-confidence and be aware of their activities; Papers : A way to leave signs, memories and to reflect, to make evident training modalities and courses and to allow to consider progress in learning both individually and in team.

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WHO WILL WE MEET?

Municipalities

State

Parish

Nursery-school

- ‘Acquerello’

Parma

Pre-school

-‘Molgolfiera’

- ‘Aquilone’

Parma

- ‘Montessori’

- ‘Allende’

- ‘Don Milani’

- ‘Derlindati’

Collecchio

- ‘Madonna di Fatima’

Mamiano