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"The mind is like a parachute, it only works if it opens up". This phrase attributed to Albert Einstein opens our short volume, as open-mindedness represents a fundamental premise for understanding why and how to bring the language of puppets to Early childhood education and care (ECEC) services for children between 0 and 7 years.

To enter into the merits of this question, we must first of all talk about the "context", in fact it is very important to know how to place our interventions in the social, territorial and cultural contexts where they take place.

Understanding the context in which we operate on a daily basis helps us to go beyond contingent problems, to enrich the pedagogical culture of the Service and above all to develop a design thought capable of reading the complexity and diversity of our society, our world, our educational service. and our users. In essence, this allows us to put the person at the center of the pedagogical interest and, consequently, to be able to respond to the emerging needs of our children and their families.

A few decades ago, the French pedagogue Bertrand Schwartz (Cfr. 1997: 209), pointed out the "detachment" of the education and training system from learners, the world of work, life, environment, cultural activities and also about its territory.

In the last twenty years, the Early childhood education and care (ECEC) services for children between 0 and 7 years have focused their efforts fundamentally on the child and not on what surrounds him: so families, diversity, the territory have remained out of thought, planning and pedagogical programming, depriving educators of precious work tools and "narrowing" their gaze, which instead must be open to looking at a world in evolution and deep change.

In my opinion, knowing how to enhance the "context" in our educational programs represents, however, an important opportunity also to sensitize children to interculturality and the model of encounter and, consequently, represents an opportunity to contribute to the development of significant skills that concern, all around, the present and the future of each child.