Distance Educating, Emergency Educating (2020)

This study aims to describe the actions implemented by educational services during the COVID-19 emergency in the spring of 2020, to understand how nurseries and preschools responded to the emergency.<br> The objective of the research is to understand how educators, teachers and pedagogical coordinators of 0-6 preschool services faced the lockdown period and consequently how the educational relationship, proposals, actions of involvement, training, design and pedagogical documentation were declined.<br> Through a questionnaire administered to early childhood services mainly in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna regions in the first months of the lockdown, the changes introduced are investigated with the intent to understand experiences and ethical-moral questioning, modifications to project development, and conditions for the continuity of educational processes through renewed relations, capable of bringing out the main and generative features of educating.<br>