Loris malaguzzi biography pedagogical institute

Loris Malaguzzi was born in Correggio on 23 February 1920.

Loris malaguzzi biography pedagogical institute

He grew up in Reggio Emilia where he attended the Istituto Magistrale secondary school, and graduated from Urbino University with a degree in pedagogy in 1946

During the war he worked in elementary and middle schools in Reggio Emilia and some of the smaller outlying municipalities in the province of Reggio Emilia such as Reggiolo, Sologno, and Guastalla.

This important human and educational experience  shaped many of his later choices.

Malaguzzi’s formation was eclectic. He began writing as a journalist in the late 1930s and after the war he collaborated with the newspapers Progresso d’Italia and l’Unita.

He was interested in theatre, cinema, art, sport, politics and education, and actively participated in Reggio Emilia’s new cultural life. During these years he joined the Italian Communist Party.

At the end of 1946 Malaguzzi was first a teacher and then Director at the Convitto Scuola della Rinascita in Rivaltella,