Learning & Development International: Children in charge

Nursery World, 11 September 2008

UK practitioners can learn much from the nurseries of San Miniato, a close neighbour and rival in excellence to Reggio Emilia, say Keir Bloomer and Bronwen Cohen, authors of a new book on the area.

San Miniato is a small town and comune (local authority) in the heart of Tuscany in Italy, with a population of just over 26,000, but it has big ideas for its youngest citizens. Here, 40 per cent of children under the age of three attend a nido (nursery for children under three years old) or an 'integrated' service for children from birth up to the...

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