Comunicare e creare relazioni con i genitori di origine straniera. I saperi professionali nei nidi e nelle scuole dell’infanzia di Bologna

Abstract

Educators and teachers should meet parents of foreign origin right from the initial stages in order to create positive relations, reciprocal trust and the premises for sharing the responsibilities of the children’s education, between people from different backgrounds who have divergent cultural references, speak different languages, and have different ways of regarding themselves and understanding one another. The article analyzes the qualitative interviews carried out with pre-school educators and kindergarten teachers in Bologna regarding the quality of communication, the practices for welcoming families of foreign origin, and the relational modalities currently adopted.