Creating Spaces for Early Childhood Education and Care in Italy. The Early Years of Tuscany Public ECEC in the Testimonies of the Educators (1970-1990)

This article is a first result of collective research, which we coordinate, on the history of educational services in Tuscany through the “voice” of the educators. The interviews were conducted by the graduate program students and students in Childhood Science, and have been useful in preparing various theses and are now kept in the permanent laboratory of Research on Children of the department of SCIFOPSI at the University of Florence. The article is therefore the result of joint work of the two authors, but in particular the introduction and conclusion can be attributed to both authors and paragraphs 1.1. and 2.2. are by Emiliano Macinai and paragraphs 1.2, 2.1.1. and 2.1.2 are by Stefano Oliviero.