Country Report: Civic and Citizenship Education in Italy: Thousands of Fragmented Activities Looking for a Systematization

Abstract: Purpose: In the present paper we describe how civic and citizenship education takes place in Italy, trying to identify strengths and weaknesses, with the aims both of understanding the situation and of identifying possible measures for improvement.Methods: The methodology implies an analysis of the official guidelines by the Ministry in this field, a short view of the research publications of the last 30 years, the informal observation of the daily teaching at school from the personal experience of the authors in Italy.Findings: First of all we study the concept of civic and citizenship education, and focus on the curriculum of civic and citizenship education (aims, teaching approaches, taught time, methods and means) in the school system, including the school culture and the experiences of participation inside school; we investigate the teacher training and role, the informal and non-formal influences in this educational field, and conclude dealing with the student assessment.... http://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/article/view/826

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Country Report: Civic and Citizenship Education in Italy: Thousands of Fragmented Activities Looking for a Systematization ; day:08 ; month:07 ; year:2017 ; Journal of social science education ; (08.07.2017)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Bombardelli, Olga ; Codato, Marta

Further information

• DOI: 10.4119/jsse-826
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019011816484539361229
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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