Reaching Thousands of Children in Low Income Communities With High-Quality ECED Services: A Journey of Perseverance and Creativity.

This paper describes a creative and bold way in which a local NGO addressed increasing access and quality of ECED services in Colombia. This case study on Fundacion Carulla's aeioTU early childhood innovation in Colombia contributes to understanding the possibilities for the private sector to spark innovation, and the importance of an open and collaborative strategy in contributing to the ECED sector at large. The critical role of monitoring and evaluation in the provision of services is highlighted. This guided key decisions on different growth phases. After a decade of work, Fundacion Carulla-aeioTU has shown capacity to effectively support children's development in low-income settings through their participation in quality programming. Furthermore, this case study also describes how the organization, having proven its capacity to provide high-quality services directly to children, decided to innovate and bring about different solutions to reach and support other stakeholders in the early childhood development ecosystem.

Artes de governar a infância: liguagem e naturalização da criança na abordagem de educação infantil da Reggio Emília / Arts of governing childhood: language and child's naturalization in the Reggio Emilia approach

Este estudo faz uma análise da abordagem da Reggio Emília para a Educação Infantil. Assumindo uma posição pós-estruturalista de inspiração foucaultiana, descreve a proposta italiana e anatomiza seus discursos. A utilização das ferramentas teórico-metodológicas possibilita determinar um espaço analítico - no qual os domínios da ética e da política se cruzam permanentemente - para entender como operam as modernas práticas de subjetivação, nessas experiências educativas destinadas a crianças de tenra idade. O exame breve e pontual da referida abordagem possibilita destacar vocabulários provenientes de campos claramente identificáveis para indicar suas articulações, filiações, compromissos. Pressupondo-se que é a linguagem que permite tornar determinada "porção da realidade" pensável, mostra-se como as palavras podem tornar inteligíveis as práticas sociais e expressar direções desejáveis para ali produzir intervenções.

The study explores the Reggio Emilia approach to Early Childhood Education. Drawing upon a post-structuralist, foucaultian inspired position, it describes that Italian experience and anatomizes its discourses. The use of theoretical and methodological tools make possible to determine an analytical space - in which ethical and political spaces are permanently crossing - to understand how modern practices of subjectification operate in these educational experiences addressed to very young children. The approach brief and punctual analysis makes possible to point out vocabularies from clearly identified fields in order to indicate its articulations, lineages, commitments. Assuming that language makes thinkable a determinate "part of reality", I stress how words could give intelligibility to social practices and show desirable directions to interventions.