The history of early childhood education in India dates back to the 1890s, when the kindergarten was started in the country. Later on, during the decades before independence, some pioneers— like Gijubhai Badheka and Tarabai Modak—struggled to establish a number of educational institutions for young children and training centres for teachers. Badheka worked extensively in Dakshinamurthi in the G...

A student of children’s folkways, Italian author and teacher Lella Gandini is best known in the United States as the leading advocate for the Reggio Emilia approach to early-childhood education, which emerged after the Second World War in Northern Italy—in the town that gives this approach its name. Gandini’s many publications in English and Italian include volumes on early-childhood education ...