L’integrazione comincia dai più piccoli. Idee e pratiche narrative nella scuola dell’infanzia multiculturale, Rete integrazione alunni stranieri di Treviso, Istituto Com-prensivo n° 1 “A. Martini” di Treviso (2013)

The text gathers ideas and proposals diffused and exchanged in the context of the course “L’integrazione comincia da piccoli. L’Italiano dei bambini stranieri nella scuola dell’Infanzia”, organised by the integration network for foreign pupils of Treviso, open to all schools in the Province.

Since some time, Italian nursery schools have become multicultural educational contexts, inhabited by children and families of diverse origins who bring a variety of stories, languages, cultures, and religions in.

Today’s nursery schools represent a place where “children of immigration” experience for the first time their own and other people's differences; a place where they learn to relate to other children and adults, while progressively adapting and improving their social strategies and communication skills; it is also a context that immigrant parents – and especially moms – come into a continuous contact with, hence avoid a latent condition of social isolation.

Thereby, ECEC services prove to be spaces where a process of mutual approaching and getting closer among adults and among children is being ushered in.

The book gathers some suggestions and proposals of activities, experimented in the nursery schools of Treviso.

Focus of the publication:

- sociocultural and linguistic diversity;

- inclusion in ECEC services;

- migrant children in ECEC;

- migrant families esp. mothers