Between training and planning: the partnership with parents within an Italian ECEC service

A good relationship with parents is a very central topic within early childhood education (ECEC) services because it is a fundamental element to build a co-constructive educational project between children, educators and their adult relatives. Although, this kind of relationship can’t be improvised, but has to be developed by the work group, that need specific training and competences to choose the style of intervention in line with agreed common goals and targets, within the particular project of welcome of each educational context.Within a perspective that enhance the educational alliance between educators and parents, the paper intents to present a case study on the implications that a particular educators’ training (about the theme of families-services relationship) had both on the educators’ beliefs and on the educational practices and activities about this relationship, within an infant toddler center managed by a Municipality in the North of Italy.