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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…

This paper presents the results of a European survey that was part of a European funded project, entitled ‘Multicultural Early Childhood Education’, carried out between 2017 and 2018, in three countries: Italy, Spain, and Hungary. The goal was to explore the intercultural training needs of Early…

This paper presents the results of a European survey that was part of a European funded project, entitled ‘Multicultural Early Childhood Education’, carried out between 2017 and 2018, in three countries: Italy, Spain, and Hungary. The goal was to explore the intercultural training needs of Early…

This manual collects experiences, inspiration and tips for cooperation between schools and parents in order to improve language development at home. The text is based on the research by Martine van der Pluijm in the context of her PhD research at the ‘Kenniscentrum Talentontwikkeling’ of the Hog…

As immigrant children are in all the urban classrooms in Canada, US and Europe, EC practitioners have to understand their needs, to be able to work effectively with them. These children arrive in the classroom not as novices with blank language slates, but as language users with language and litera…

Every family, be it migrant or not, constitutes a unit in itself, a microcosm held together by ties and stories, marked by roles, resources, affections, and events. Accordingly, it would be misleading to consider migrant families as homogeneous social entities, though they all share the experience o…

Achieving gender equality in education participation, in the teaching and learning process and in access to social and economic opportunities that education can facilitate are key interlinked ambitions in two of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:…

Educational systems worldwide, and the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in particular, are currently influenced and re-shaped by globalization and transformation. This article presents different theoretical perspectives on globalization and transformation. Various approaches are se…