BAMBINI CHE CONTANO: A LONG TERM PROGRAM FOR PRESCHOOL TEACHERS DEVELOPMENT

This paper aims at reporting about a five years program for preschool teachers development, with the author as a teacher educator, on appointment of the city council of Modena. The project has involved every year about 25 teachers. In this paper the political background and the structure of the program are reported together with some outcomes concerning the materials for teacher development, the activities realized in schools by the teachers and the construction of a community of inquiry involving teachers, teacher educators, pedagogists and policy makers.