Giuseppina Pizzigoni's 20th Century Pedagogy of the Kindergarten

Giuseppina Pizzigoni (1870-1947) was a pioneer of the change in the vision of school education in Italy, an autonomous interpreter of the impulse of transformation that lies at the origin of the progressive school, the active school, the new school in Europe and the USA. In 1907 she conceived the renewal of the Italian school, anticipating the structure of the comprehensive school and including the nursery school with infants and children from 0 to 3 years of age. In 1911 she created a first Rinnovata Pizzigoni building that still exists in Milan. The book explores the real revolution of experimental method introduced in infant school from its original conception to the most recent achievements and intends to show how the initial pedagogical idea can develop creatively, without being an imitation of a previous model, and instead proposing a permanent renewal of education, and planning school from indoor to outdoor.