A long relay race
From the Resistance to the present day: how the world's finest kindergartens were born in Reggio Emilia.
 
In 1991 Reggio Emilia was named by Newsweek, one of America's leading magazines, as the world's most innovative city in regard to preschools. In a lengthy dossier on the world's 10 best schools, alongside entire states deemed excellent for certain specific disciplines-New Zealand for reading, the Netherlands for math and foreign languages, Japan in science-the Reggio Emilia area becomes the educational model to look up to.
But how was it possible for a small Italian province to achieve such prestigious recognition, which then led this educational approach to be studied all over the world? As is often the case, great innovations are not born from an isolated episode or place but from an entire context that is particularly fertile and sensitive, born through overcoming obstacles that accelerate its development, from trials and errors that stimulate the creativity of an entire community. These are sometimes small stories, those that make up this great history, which led Reggio Emilia and its province, to give a very strong impulse to the movement for the protection of rights, helping to build values that today we can define as European.
 
A Long Relay Race is the three-part podcast that tells the story of how educational services 0-6 in the Reggio Emilia area came into being.

Una lunga staffetta was written by Agnese Spinelli.
Producer: Alexia Salati for Progettinfanzia
Historical consulting: Adriano Arati, Steffen Kreuseler - Istoreco
Voices: Cecilia Di Donato, Luca Cattani - MaMiMò Theater Center
Sound Design and Editing: Giuseppe Pugliese - Insomnia Studios
Post Production: Giuseppe Pugliese, Adriano Arati

A Long Relay is made as part of the European project The Most Beautiful of Our Days (www.themostbeautiifulofourdays.eu)

We thank Giacomina Castagnetti, Loretta Giaroni, Marta Lusuardi, Jone Bartoli, Maura Bussei, Manuela Davoli, Mariangela Brocchetti.