Educating attentive educators In dialogue with Lella Gandini

Abstract

Vito Minoia  in dialogue with Lella Gandini, a student of children’s folkways, Italian author and pedagogist.  

Lella Gandini is best known in the United States as the leading advocate for the Reggio  Emilia approach to early-childhood education, which emerged after the Second World War in Northern Italy—in the town that gives this approach its name. Gandini’s many publications in English and Italian include volumes on early-childhood education and Italian folklore, and she is coauthor or coeditor of such works as Insights and Inspirations from Reggio Emilia Stories of Teachers and Children from North America; The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education; and Beautiful Stuff!: Learning with Found Materials.