Ms Sun Xueling
Minister of State, Ministry of Home Affairs & Ministry of Social and Family Development
Maddalena Tedeschi is a Pedagogista, responsible for the Complex Organisation Unit of the Istituzione of Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres of Reggio Emilia Municipality. For Reggio Children, she collaborates on realising projects involving publishing, exhibitions, and professional learning, in Italy and abroad.
Themes of special investigation include: educational environments as the design of spaces and new architectures, dietary education in early childhood, projects of educational continuity and relations between preschool and primary school.
Specific areas of Tedeschi’s deeper research on practice/thinking in children’s education include: the construction of scientific thinking in children, the use of digital technology in didactics, the construction of a school curriculum for 0-11 years, processes of evaluation and documentation in learning, environments as learning context, the culture of the atelier.
Member of the Research Group on the use of digital technology in didactics, in collaboration with Reggio Children, and the Milano Bicocca University.
Also for Reggio Children, Tedeschi has authored articles and curated exhibitions and publications.
Mirella Ruozzi completed her art school diploma course, in ceramics, at the Gaetano Chierici Art School in Reggio Emilia in 1972, and the professional exam to qualify as a teacher of arts education in middle schools in 1973. From 1975 to 2016, Mirella Ruozzi was an atelierista with the Preschools and Infant-toddler Centers – Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia. She was the atelierista of the Ada Gobetti Municipal Infant-toddler Center, and the Ernesto Balducci Municipal Preschool. Mirella has collaborated with Reggio Emilia municipal infant-toddler centers: Genoeffa Cervi, Peter Pan, Luigi Bellelli, Gianni Rodari, and Pablo Picasso.
In 2001, Mirella began curating projects on research, professional development, and more in-depth investigation at the Gianni Rodari Theatre Workshop through the Preschools and Infant-Toddler Centers – Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia. She has collaborated on and curated several educational and professional learning projects for the Istituzione. She collaborates with Reggio Children on exhibitions, ateliers, publishing projects, and professional development courses by participating in seminars and workshops in Italy and overseas.
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