Quality of Early Childhood Education: network evaluation and regional monitoring - Interview with Antonio Gariboldi

ABSTRACT

In this interview, Antonio Gariboldi, an Italian researcher and professor at the Università Degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia in Emilia Romagna, presents his research and reports the advisory he provided to Italian, municipal and regional education networks. His work is centered in the evaluation and it was developed from the creation of a regional system for monitoring of educational quality of the services for the infancy and the organization of educative contexts. Gariboldi also speaks about formative activities, often carried out in the form of action research. I am very grateful for the initial mediation of the researcher Donatella Savio, from the Università Degli di Studi di Pavia, who made my meeting with Professor Antonio Gariboldi possible, in the period I was in Italy for postdoctoral studies. I also thank the teacher for the attention and reception from the first contacts to the face-to-face meeting at the UNIMORE premises in Reggio Emilia.

Keywords:
Early Childhood Education; Quality; Evaluation; Network Monitoring.