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The article illustrates the findings of a systematic literature review carried out within the Erasmus+ project START (Sustaining Warm and Inclusive Transitions across the Early Years) focusing on transitions from early childhood education and care to primary school. To date, most literature reviews conducted on this topic examined the findings derived from studies published in English and conducted in Anglosaxon countries, thus overlooking the findings of research carried out in EU Member States and published more frequently in original languages. The systematic literature review presented in this paper attempts to address such gap by analysing the findings of studies conducted in the context of EU Member States, which offer a particularly relevant and rich contribution in relation to children’s, families’ and professionals’ experiences and perspectives during transitions. By shedding light on the findings derived from such publication sources, this literature review offers valuable insights in terms of investigating the multiple understandings and approaches underlying transition practices across a variety of policy contexts, educational systems and pedagogical traditions typical of EU Member States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Classroom deliberations in an inclusive environment is challenging yet rewarding. Teaching students with varied needs under the same roof provides the teachers with the opportunity to bring out their best and to help students to attain an optimum level of learning. The purpose set for this paper is to conduct a rigorous review of inclusive teaching-learning practices across countries to understand and present the best ways of conducting an inclusive classroom. To explore the stated objective the researchers opted for an extensive desk review method to review the available related literature in a systematic manner. As a result of conducting a systematic review analysis, certain themes have emerged under which plausible inclusive practices have been presented as a finding of the research. The study presented five categories of best teaching practices that emerged from the review. This paper presented a concise and accumulated version of the best practices and methods adopted by the practitioners in inclusive education across the world. Amalgamated findings present that using ICT, individualised learning and various classroom management techniques, collaboration and curriculum adaptations provide the best ways to promote inclusion.

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The paper presents the "state of the art" of the European Erasmus KA2 WIN project: Writing for Inclusion. After the introduction, dedicated to the themes of inclusion, from a pedagogical, anthropological and historical point of view, there are several in-depth studies dedicated to inclusive processes at school and in extra-school social contexts. Inclusion is not considered exclusively as the inclusion of disability in educational and work contexts, but it is considered as a transversal practice that we hope will become modus operandi in every daily experience, both individual and collective. This is a first article that presents the work already done within this Erasmus KA2 project and other future essays are expected to deepen and refine the topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper explores the effects of social disablement caused by imprisonment, analyzing how this institution can exacerbate existing disability conditions or create new ones. Through a review of sociological literature, it highlights how the prison context can significantly contribute to an additional level of disablement. Considering the incapacitating effects of imprisonment, it emerges that the prison system acts as a “producer” of social disablement, intensifying marginalization processes and increasing societal disparities. This process is fueled by prison overcrowding, loss of employment and housing, suspension of social assistance, and the breakdown of family ties, creating a vicious cycle that generates and reinforces social disablement. The article underscores the need for greater attention and research in the field of disability within the prison environment, considering the dynamic interaction between individual conditions and contextual factors that influence it. Furthermore, it calls for a critical reflection on the social function and practices of prison institutions, proposing a more inclusive approach that reconsiders penal structures and policies to mitigate the disabling effects of detention.

Many European language policy documents have long confirmed the importance of adopting a plurilingual and intercultural perspective in teaching, which could foster inclusion and promote an understanding of linguistic and cultural diversity. After comparing the European notion of plurilingual and intercultural education with the Italian one of democratic linguistic education, the paper discusses the most suitable teaching approaches for the enhancement of plurilingual repertoires in the Italian school, highlighting their points of contact and specificities. The goal is to show how plurilingualism can become an educational and cognitive resource for the benefit of the whole class, as well as an object for enhancing the individual and his/her language biography. The paper thus seeks to propose a possible Italian way of approaching to plurilingual education, capable of benefiting from the historical and sociolinguistic heritage of our country but in continuity with the educational language policies of the European Union. Being conceived in the broadest sense, plurilingualism thus becomes a ground for comparison and mutual (re)cognition in which all languages ​​and varieties of languages in the classroom acquire dignity and value.

In this paper is shown a review of the Istat works about the themes of inclusion, exclusion and social inequalities. The main results of a survey carried out in 2013-2015, and the approaches followed are presented. This survey investigated the existing data sources and metadata about Roma populations. The need to establish a statistical working group on data relating to the Roma population is explained, as foreseen in the implementation of the Strategy. The activity of this working group aims to provide the guidelines for collecting and processing data concerning the Roma populations together with the institutions and public bodies involve, as well as to harmonize data and existing metadata and systematizatize data sources. Moreover, the Istat survey, which aims to analyze the existing data on housing transitions, is presented. The last goal is part of the agreement with Unar of March 1 2018, and is taking place in recent months. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper describes the interplay between orality and inclusive English as a Foreign Language Teaching (in the primary classroom), with reference to the Italian context. Inclusive teaching is here understood as a teacher’s ability to provide environments ensuring every pupil equal access to the English language. In the first part of the paper, a case is made for the need to implement the use of aural and oral communication in the EFL classroom, both in terms of letting children listen to the sounds of the new language (thus fostering comprehension skills) and enabling them to copy the teacher’s sounds and words, or even express what they might already know. The second part of the paper focusses on the learner, and in particular on immigrant children who are trying to master the local language (Italian), native children who might have different levels of access to the foreign language outside school, depending on their socio-economic status, and children with specific learning difficulty. Finally, the paper briefly discusses the implications, both for in-service teachers and for university student teachers, of the implementation (and increase) of classroom orality.

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This paper focuses on an investigation into the complex phenomenology of bullying and cyberbullying behaviour, focusing actions of contrast and treatment within a preventive perspective of inclusive education capable of designing multi-level strategies. The paper presents the results of a collaborative research-training project with a network of Apulian secondary schools and the consequent design of the educational device for the prevention and treatment of the phenomenon (the SEP device: sensitise, educate, protect) useful for dealing with the phenomena from a pedagogical point of view. The device allows to develop an observational and receptive posture concerning the behavioural prodromes and to accept the complexity of the phenomena adopting multiple-levels educational choices. Prevenire e contrastare bullismo e cyberbullismo attraverso il dispositivo SEP: sensibilizzare, educare, proteggere. Risultanze di un’indagine. Il presente contributo mette a tema un’indagine sulla complessa fenomenologia dei comportamenti di bullismo e cyberbullismo, focalizzando le azioni di contrasto e di cura entro una prospettiva preventiva di didattica dell’inclusione in grado di progettare strategie a più livelli. Nel contributo si presentano le risultanze di una ricerca-formazione collaborativa avviata con una rete di scuole secondarie di I e II grado pugliesi e la conseguente progettazione del dispositivo di educazione alla prevenzione e cura del fenomeno (il dispositivo SEP: sensibilizzare, educare, proteggere) utile a fronteggiare i fenomeni in chiave pedagogica. Il dispositivo consente di assumere una postura osservativa e ricettiva dei prodromi comportamentali e di accogliere la complessità dei fenomeni adottando scelte educative a più livelli articolate in un approccio adattivo inclusivo costruito sul contesto e rivolto all’intero gruppo e non solo alla diade bullo-vittima. These are articulated in an inclusive adaptive approach built on the context and aimed at the entire group and not just on the bully-victim dyad. The concept of inclusion, indeed, is closely linked to education to “active citizenship”, understood as responsible participation in building a civil society and requires action that involves the entire school community and families.

This paper refers to the «Interdisciplinary Research Project» of the Department of Education at Roma Tre University. The title of the project is «E-learning for higher education: setting up an integrated model for the qualification of learning and educational relationships in online courses» and represents a development of a previous research (Bocci, 2019a), which was aimed at outlining some dimensions and issues of inclusive online education. Taking as a background the different theoretical perspectives that study inclusion and inclusive processes (such as the Bio-Psycho-Social Model, the Social Model, the Capability Approach and the Universal Design) in the present paper the authors show the results of an exploratory survey aimed at verifying the validity of a new search tool − an analysis form developed starting from the work of Gráinne Conole (2013) on MOOCs − used to analyze the level of inclusion of some university online courses of the EduOpen platform. The aim of the work is to provide a self-analysis tool to better guide in an inclusive perspective those who design and deliver e-learning courses. The first results are encouraging and lead to further investment of resources in this direction.

The present paper aims to investigate the issue of interculturality and migrations in contemporary literature addressed to teenagers and young adults, with a specific focus on those modern bildungsromans that pay attention to single individuals and to the development of their identity between two countries. Literature is a relevant educational tool as – through the fascination provided by stories – it creates inclusion, identification, and knowledge. Moreover, it offers to young readers new meaningful life-experiences. The paper explores how literature for children represents the complexity of identities on the border in two different literary formats. The study focuses on novels, graphic novels, and their portrayal of evolving identities, considering books where the young protagonists are usually on the line between two cultures and looking for themselves. The paper develops a brief analysis of some of the most significant works on contemporary Italian publishing industry, highlighting the literary potential from an inclusive perspective.

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This paper analyzes two dystopias belonging to different worlds and eras: one from the 20th century, We, by Russian writer E. Zamjatin and the other from the 21st century, Notre vie dans les forêts, by the French M. Darrieussecq. This literary journey of a century allows us to focus on themes dear to the dystopian genre but especially related to the lives of today’s readers, in the spirit of engaged literature. In particular, readers will be prompted to reflect, with the help of some critical insights, primarily on the disasters of the Anthropocene and on the depersonalization experienced by humans in a world that changes too quickly and in which the boundaries between human and nonhuman seem to have been obliterated. Starting from this last element, the article considers a new model of inclusion of the different, the posthuman, through the studies of Rosi Braidotti and Donna Haraway.

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Recent research shows the growing need of using video-analysis in qualitative educational research. Video-analysis offers possibilities for representing Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) professionals’ practices, and for becoming a mediational and epistemological tool of their on-going knowledge construction about inclusion and equity. This paper presents initial findings from a case study conducted in Bologna, Italy, using video-analysis as a tool for ECEC practitioners’ active learning and professional development. Results from the study show how video (recording and analysis) help practitioners (re)thinking their interactions with children and stimulate reflections on their conceptualization of inclusive practices. Drawing on a European trans-national project funded by the Erasmus Plus Program, this paper argues the relevance of video-elicited discussions and focus groups to help providing significant feedback to educators, as well as creating a digital repository of inclusive practices. Registrare interazioni inclusive nei servizi per l’infanzia: video-analisi e formazione degli insegnanti. Ricerche recenti dimostrano l’importanza dell’uso della video-analisi nella ricerca educativa qualitativa. L’analisi dei video offre la possibilità di rappresentare le pratiche di educatori e professionisti che operano nei servizi per la prima infanzia. La video-analisi può diventare uno strumento epistemologico e di mediazione per l’acquisizione di conoscenze sull’inclusione e l’equità. Il contributo presenta i primi risultati di un caso studio condotto in Italia (Bologna) utilizzando l’analisi video come strumento per l’apprendimento attivo e lo sviluppo professionale degli educatori nei servizi per l’infanzia. I risultati dello studio mostrano come la registrazione e l’analisi dei video aiuta gli educatori a (ri)pensare le loro interazioni con i bambini, stimolando rinnovate riflessioni sulla loro concettualizzazione di pratiche inclusive. Basandosi su un progetto di ricerca Europeo finanziato dal programma Erasmus Plus, questo articolo sostiene la rilevanza dei focus group stimolati da video per fornire feedback agli educatori in formazione in servizio, nonché a creare un archivio digitale di pratiche inclusive.

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This essay looks at urban regeneration beginning from the notion of the exclusive qualities of the contemporary city: selective, closed, introspective, and inaccessible. Focusing on the tactical/metadesign phase of the urban regeneration process and referring to the paradigms of resilience and bio-psycho-social inclusion, the paper proposes a technological design vision to recompose the qualities of the ‘common good’ known as the city into an inclusive, open, communicative and accessible reality. Operating through technological-environmental interfaces and need-based/ enabling macro-requirements, the paper considers the urban system as an inhabitable organism characterised by differences, tensions and balances between the apparatuses of the city, within a matrix of widespread quality.

The paper presents the state of the art of the European Erasmus Project KA2 – WIN: Writing For Inclusion – dedicated to school inclusion and the use of alternative teaching methodologies such as Digital Storytelling. Starting from a survey on the theme of educational care from a theoretical and pedagogical point of view, the article focuses - in the central parts - on the activities carried out with the students and teachers at the European primary schools involved. The article highlighted the social, as well as educational and cultural implications of the research work carried out by the educational and university institutions involved, with a broad theoretical-methodological reflection which will close, in the coming months, with the assessment of the project itself.

Students in two graduate English seminars at Texas A&M were offered an introduction to TEI encoding and were surveyed as to their experiences. Four students presented short papers to the TEI meeting that incorporated both the survey responses and their own perspectives as relative newcomers to TEI. These papers demonstrate why it is important to incorporate TEI in the graduate curriculum, how that incorporation might best be approached, and what happens when TEI is viewed through a disciplinary lens.

The article illustrates the findings of a systematic literature review carried out within the Erasmus+ project START (Sustaining Warm and Inclusive Transitions across the Early Years) focusing on transitions from early childhood education and care to primary school. To date, most literature reviews conducted on this topic examined the findings derived from studies published in English and conducted in Anglosaxon countries, thus overlooking the findings of research carried out in EU Member States and published more frequently in original languages. The systematic literature review presented in this paper attempts to address such gap by analysing the findings of studies conducted in the context of EU Member States, which offer a particularly relevant and rich contribution in relation to children’s, families’ and professionals’ experiences and perspectives during transitions. By shedding light on the findings derived from such publication sources, this literature review offers valuable insights in terms of investigating the multiple understandings and approaches underlying transition practices across a variety of policy contexts, educational systems and pedagogical traditions typical of EU Member States.

This paper aims to address a current issue for Special Pedagogy: the educational inclusion of students with learning disabilities in academic settings. Specifically, what is presented in these pages represents part of a broader investigation activity carried out by the writer during the three-year Ph.D. program. In 2019, it has been possible to extend the data collection within Flinders University in Adelaide (South Australia) thanks to the support of «Erasmus+ study 2018/19» funds. The Australian experience represents, in fact, the subject of this article, which will present the case study carried out in the university of Adelaide. Following a description of the context and a summary of the recent history regarding the inclusion of people with learning disabilities in the world of education, we will report the data collected with some considerations «in progress» on what emerged. The survey, that has a qualitative matrix, wants to give voice to the perspective of the respondents (students and disability advisors), taking it (potentially) as a possible incipit for the start of further investigation regarding the inclusion of the target considered here.

Example sentences are a major source of data in both linguistics and language teaching. We use examples in our teaching to support students’ learning, both in textbooks and in more informal contexts such as classroom instruction and small-group work. This paper is concerned with the representation of gender in such examples. We introduce our prior work on the use of examples in Linguistics research articles, showing that they exhibit pervasive biases and stereotypes. Among other findings, men outnumber women in examples at a 2:1 rate. Men are portrayed more often as grammatical subjects with jobs, while women are family-oriented passive actors in a male world. We offer recommendations to avoid such bias, to encourage student participation and send a message of inclusion in the classroom.

The paper proposes a reflection on the main difficulties that the migrant family with a child with disabilities is facing. Starting from the critical analysis of the literature on the subject and from the results of the interviews that took place with some migrant families, the contribution intends to reflect on the relational and planning strategies useful for promoting, within early childhood education services, truly inclusive educational processes capable of encouraging the active participation of families and children who experiment this double belonging: culture of origin and disability. The objective is to raise awareness and guide educators and teachers in the preparation of inclusive practices that know how to jointly consider double membership.

The paper seeks to call for greater attention, from pedagogical research, to the growing presence of disabled immigrant children at school, to elaborate educational research paths and inclusive educational actions. In case of disability and in the presence of immigrant experiences, the teacher is invited to wear new glasses to identify and respond to the plurality of needs, to use the reading grids of the discomfort as free as possible from stereotypes and prejudices. The work was carried out with the aim of offering a criterion, in the school context, to guide the observation of child behavior according to scientific canons attentive to the needs of these pupils, their specificities, their expectations and a consideration of the deficit in light of the pupil's culture of origin. This ensures greater well-being, better learning outcomes and more complete school and social integration.

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) stresses the importance of accurate, reliable, comparable and disaggregated data by conditions and areas of life. There is national and international research, but the UN itself declares them unsatisfactory, denouncing the connection with unequal and ineffective policies on disability. In light of these considerations, this paper intends to present an overview on the nature and criticalities of the statistics on persons with disabilities reviewing the scientific literature. Starting from this framework, the project «More than just numbers» disability data matter, held by the University of Bergamo, will be introduced. It aims at developing a theoretical-methodological model to promote an in-depth, updated knowledge on disability, on the phenomena and the systems related to it, as well as tracing political actions for a truly inclusive society.

The central role played by space within the educational field, considered as a prerequisite for action, redefines the didactic experience through the meanings of design and organization, implying a systemic relationship between teacher, learner and contexts. The aim of this paper is to reflect upon the meanings of space, spatiality, accessibility and the opportunity to prepare educational and didactic places in which the inclusion of each and every one can be promoted, including pupils with complex communication needs. Indeed, for those pupils the absence of language, a partial or not very functional use of language can represent a limitation to well-being, an obstacle to activity and an impediment to participation to school context. Ripensare lo spazio didattico-educativo: suggestioni per promuovere l’inclusione scolastica. Il ruolo centrale dello spazio in ambito educativo, inteso come presupposto dell’azione, riconfigura l’esperienza didattica nei significati di progettazione e di organizzazione, implicando una relazione sistemica tra docente, discente e ambiente. L’obiettivo di questo lavoro è di riflettere sui significati di spazio, spazialità, accessibilità e sull’opportunità di predisporre luoghi dell’educazione e della didattica nei quali favorire l’inclusione di tutti e di ciascuno, ivi compresi, gli alunni con bisogni comunicativi complessi (BCC) nei quali l’assenza del linguaggio, un uso parziale o poco funzionale può costituire una limitazione al benessere, un ostacolo all’attività e un impedimento alla partecipazione nel contesto scolastico.

The school textbook is a cultural artefact capable of conveying a particular cultural and social imagery that clearly affects the attitudes of teachers and learners towards disability. This paper presents an exploratory-descriptive study that aims to investigate the attitudes of primary school teachers towards the representation of disability within the school textbook. Correlation between attitudes and teaching qualifications and experience were also sought. For this purpose, a questionnaire was constructed starting from macro-themes that emerged from semi-structured interviews during the previous qualitative phase. Findings have shown that teachers, while aware of the low educational value of the textbook and the scarcity of images and texts related to disability, have positive attitudes towards inclusive representation, use and design of materials related to special needs. Finally, teachers with the specialization for support activities were found to have more positive attitudes towards the representation and management of materials representing the reality of disability. Rappresentazione della disabilità nei libri di testo: gli atteggiamenti degli insegnanti della scuola primaria. Il libro di testo scolastico costituisce un artefatto culturale che veicola un particolare immaginario destinato ad influenzare le percezioni di insegnanti e alunni. L’articolo presenta uno studio esplorativo-descrittivo che mira ad investigare gli atteggiamenti dei docenti nei confronti della rappresentazione della disabilità all’interno dei libri di testo scolastici. A tale scopo è stato costruito un questionario ad hoc a partire dai macro-temi emersi dalle interviste semi-strutturate durante la precedente fase qualitativa. La ricerca mostra che gli insegnanti, pur consapevoli dello scarso valore educativo del libro di testo e della scarsità di immagini e testi relativi alla disabilità, hanno atteggiamenti positivi nei confronti della rappresentazione inclusiva e delle competenze personali nella gestione di materiali relativi alla realtà dei bisogni speciali. Gli insegnanti in possesso della specializzazione per le attività di sostegno, infine, tendono ad avere atteggiamenti più positivi nei confronti della rappresentazione della e dell’utilizzo di immagini e testi disabilità all’interno dei libri di testo rappresentanti la disabilità.

The pandemic, with its environmental and socio-economic crises, has highlighted the urgency of structural responses. Overcoming this polycrisis requires the reactivation of a community and identity dimension of places. Cultural institutions can play an important role in this process. This paper proposes a focus on the role of ecomuseums in the creation of resilient communities, able to renew themselves to respond to crises. The ecomuseum movement is strongly committed to the eco-social transition of communities and territories and offers good practices for the management of common goods, methods and tools for the recognition of local identities, joint decision-making, co-planning, the care of living cultural heritage, the integral development of the landscape and the monitoring of impacts.

The paper presents the “state of the art” of the European Erasmus KA2 WIN project: Writing for Inclusion. After the introduction, dedicated to the themes of inclusion, from a pedagogical, anthropological and historical point of view, there are several in-depth studies dedicated to inclusive processes at school and in extra-school social contexts. Inclusion is not considered exclusively as the inclusion of disability in educational and work contexts, but it is considered as a transversal practice that we hope will become modus operandi in every daily experience, both individual and collective. This is a first article that presents the work already done within this Erasmus KA2 project and other future essays are expected to deepen and refine the topic.

This paper reveals why the issue of transforming the system of lifelong learning towards an ‘inclusive education system at all levels and lifelong learning’ (United Nations, 2006, p. 16), due to national ratifications of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006), cuts right to the core of democratic societies and national policy agendas. Following the socio-spatial works by Löw (2001; 2008), the example of the German lifelong learning arena serves to illustrate the benefit of spatial theory in the adult education discourse. Empirical findings of a qualitative research design allow insights into how access to a place of learning is interpreted and organised by adult education professionals. It opens up an understanding of who gains access to public adult education institutions and, imperatively, why access is not merely a pedagogical issue, but a negotiation of citizenship and politics and is, thus, of a genuine political nature.

The initial training for support teachers is an essential factor in promoting the quality of inclusive processes in schools of different types and levels. The Specialization Course for Support Teacher, established by the D.M. 30.09.2011, is a training course whose effectiveness must be systematically monitored and evaluated in order to progressively increase its quality. In this sense, the paper presents the evaluation system developed and tested in the fourth edition (2018-19) course, highlighting its usefulness for the purpose of redesigning and improving it. Monitorare e valutare la formazione degli insegnanti di sostegno in una prospettiva di miglioramento La formazione iniziale degli insegnanti specializzati per le attività di sostegno didattico agli alunni con disabilità rappresenta un fattore essenziale per promuovere la qualità dei processi inclusivi nelle scuole di differente ordine e grado. I Corsi di Specializzazione per il Sostegno istituiti dal D.M. 30.09.2011 costituiscono dunque un percorso formativo di cui è necessario monitorare e valutare sistematicamente l’efficacia per incrementarne progressivamente la qualità. In questo senso il contributo presenta l’impianto valutativo elaborato e sperimentato nella quarta edizione del corso del 2018-19, evidenziandone l’utilità al fine della riprogettazione e del miglioramento del percorso.

In light of the regulatory provisions provided by the Implementing Decrees of the Law 107/2015, starting from the cultural revolution that the ICF proposes, educational institutions are called upon to reconsider the individualized planning provided for the safeguard of pupils with disabilities. In order to guide the teachers in the dialogue with the biopsychosocial perspective, the working group of the Center on New Technologies for Disability and Inclusion (CNTHI) of the University of Salento has launched a research and training path on the ICF-based Individualized Educational Planning. The outcome of the research is the formalization and subsequent testing of a IEP -ICF model. The paper describes the development phases of the model and presents the results of the experimentation and monitoring process implemented in some school institutions in the reference area. Progettazione educativa individualizzata su base ICF. Sperimentazione e monitoraggio del modello PEI-ICF UniSalento Alla luce delle disposizioni normative previste dai Decreti attuativi della L. 107/2015, le istituzioni scolastiche sono chiamate a ripensare la progettazione individualizzata a tutela dell’alunno con disabilità a partire dalla rivoluzione culturale che l’ICF propone. Allo scopo di guidare i docenti nell’interlocuzione con la prospettiva bio-psico-sociale, il gruppo di lavoro del Centro sulle Nuove Tecnologie per la disabilità e l’Inclusione (CNTHI) dell’Università del Salento ha avviato un percorso di ricerca e di formazione sulla progettazione educativa individualizzata in chiave ICF, il cui esito è rappresentato dalla formalizzazione e dalla successiva sperimentazione di un modello PEI-ICF. Nel contributo sono descritte le fasi di elaborazione del modello e presentati i risultati del percorso di sperimentazione e di monitoraggio messo in atto in alcune istituzioni scolastiche del territorio.

Starting from an analysis of the perceptual dynamics and the representations that are activated in front of a body with disabilities, and from a necessary crisis of mental schemes that can produce stereotyping, categorization and labeling, the paper reflects on the ways of valorizing the motor skills in an inclusive sense of support teachers in training, traditionally excluded from the learning assessment, starting from the activity carried out during the laboratory of Methods and Didactics of Motor Activities organized within the Specialization Course for support activities of the University of Reggio Calabria Mediterranea in the academic year 2018-2019. Valutazione delle conoscenze motorie nei futuri insegnanti di sostegno per una scuola senza barriere A partire da un’analisi delle dinamiche percettive e delle rappresentazioni che si attivano dinanzi a un corpo con disabilità, e da una necessaria messa in crisi di schemi mentali che possono produrre sterotipizzazioni, categorizzazioni ed etichettature, il presente contributo riflette sulle modalità di valorizzazione delle conoscenze motorie in senso inclusivo degli insegnanti di sostegno in formazione, tradizionalmente escluse dal learning assessment, a partire dall’attività svolta durante il laboratorio di Metodi e Didattiche delle Attività Motorie organizzato nell’ambito del Corso di specializzazione per le attività di sostegno dell’Università degli Studi di Reggio Calabria Mediterranea nell’a.a. 2018-2019.

The many experiences of territorial heritage enhancement developed in Italy show how recognising the close link between community and territory can be the basis for paths of sustainable local development. How to translate this practice legacy to render it useful in deeply different contexts, such as the Global South countries, where centuries of colonisation and exploitation of resources as well as of the population (like in Latin America) have permanently altered any balance between the man and the environment? The paper organises some reflections emerged from researches and projects developed by the writer inside the LabPSM – Laboratory City and territory in the countries of the Global South – of the University of Florence, within the broader framework of post-colonial studies. The main issue explored concerns projects and policies for the requalification of informal settlements, with regard to which a contribution is offered in terms of criticism and construction of meanings and methodologies.