Margherita Zoebeli from Zurich to Rimini. A life devoted to childhood

This volume gathers the proceedings of the conference dedicated to Margherita Zoebeli and organised at the University Campus of Rimini by the Department of Education Studies ‘Giovanni Maria Bertin’ of the University of Bologna, in collaboration with the Fondazione Margherita Zoebeli (Margherita Zoebeli Foundation) and the Centro Educativo Italo-Svizzero di Rimini (Italian-Swiss Educational Centre - CEIS).

The main objective of the conference (18-19 November 2022) was to study, through archival documents, the valuable work carried out by the Swiss educator and teacher, who moved to Rimini after the Second World War. Thanks to Margherita Zoebeli and her national and international contacts, the Villaggio Italo-Svizzero (Italian-Swiss Village) she founded, later the Centro Educativo Italo-Svizzero di Rimini (Italian-Swiss Educational Centre - CEIS), became a true workshop of active pedagogy in the immediate post-World War II period.

The contributions focus on the pedagogical and educational value of her choices, considered in the context of the time, while also trying to highlight their relevance for today’s training of educators and teachers, a training that is becoming increasingly important in view of the new challenges and emergencies that education has to face.