Rapporti, riflessioni, presentazioni

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Educating the city, transforming the future. The Learning City paradigm
The concept of Learning City promoted by UNESCO represents an innovative political vision that places lifelong learning…
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Learning Cities and the culture of peace. Unesco promotes the construction of inclusive, sustainable, and democratic communities
Learning city concept is now one of the most significant outcomes of Unesco's thinking, in which education, rights,…
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Learning city as a driver for the diffusion of social well-being. Promoting “urban democracies” to reduce inequalities, marginalization and juvenile deviance
Marginality can no more be read in terms of self-exclusion of the subject, since it is now clear that it corresponds to…
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The city: an educational and narrative space
The principle inspiring this essay is rooted in the idea of city as a space marked by narratives, stories and personal…
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The Learning City as sense of place and of the common good
The city that learns, or Learning City, represents an emerging paradigm of sustainable urban development, based on…
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AI literacy in Learning Cities. Innovative Educational Methodologies for Digital Literacy and Citizen Empowerment
This paper aims to explore the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning within Learning Cities,…
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Learning cities as a node of a sustainable and intergenerational widespread educational system
The contribution analyzes the results of the action-research project “Widespread Educational Ecosystem: Innovative and…
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Intercultural dimensions of English language teaching: enhancing European key-competences in the context of Learning Cities
Intercultural education and English language teaching play a key role in the development of inclusive societies, acting…
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For a marginal archive. the wise role of the elderly
The essay proposed here aims to lay the theoretical foundations for an Archive of marginal cultures, with the…
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Educational communities in the face of bullying victimization: what challenges?
The aim of this work is to highlight how prejudices and silence can be risk factors for an educational community capable…
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Peripheral knowledges: feminist urbanism as a transformative educational practice
This contribution aims to critically reconsider the notion of the Learning City, distancing it from technocratic and…
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Physical literacy in learning cities: promoting community wellbeing through sport and movement education
This article examines the integration of physical literacy within the Learning Cities paradigm, focusing on the role of…
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Giving back to the community. To educate cities that are learning to give back
According to the Global Solidarity Report, in 2024 the world scored just 36 out of 100 on the Global Solidarity…
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The role of Mathematics in culture, territory and active citizenship
Mathematics is commonly recognized as a fundamental area of development of human civilization. Since ancient times, its…
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Learning and Pedagogy of Territories: The Piano delle Fosse Granarie as a Symbolic and Educational Device
The Piano delle Fosse Granarie can be seen as an open-air educational space, an example of situated learning rooted in…
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For a Urban Pedagogy: popular education as a conflictual and transformative practice
This paper is part of a more comprehensive theoretical and practical model of learning cities, viewed through the lens…
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Empowering Urban Futures: The Role of Lifelong Learning in Developing Inclusive and Sustainable Learning Cities
The article, therefore, proposes Learning Cities as a theoretical model for engineering sustainable and inclusive urban…
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Learning Cities and Public History: Memory as a Collective Good or a Tool of Power?
Starting from the 1970s, the field of historical studies showed an increasing interest in the theme of memory. This…
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A critical-pedagogical analysis of learning cities: epistemological dimensions and infrastructures for a culture of lifelong learning
The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities promotes lifelong learning policies that recall the idea of the learning…
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Learning cities bridging innovation and transformative education: the Viennese case study of Bildungsgrätzl
Today, the Smart Cities (SC) concept has quickly become popular in the debate on sustainable urban development. However,…
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Building inclusive cities: towards lifelong learning model for gender education and equal opportunities
This study aims to explore the development of a lifelong learning model focused on gender education and equal…
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The Learning City as a model of social inclusion
Contemporary cities often appear as places, or “non-places”, within which pluralism and cultural diversity, rather…
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Shaping the future of learning: competences and the role of Learning Cities
This paper examines the role of continuous professional development in fostering the European Key Competences within…
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Varese: Rethinking for Transformation – A Partnership Between the Municipality and the University for Educational and Social Innovation
The Municipality of Varese, in collaboration with the teaching and Learning Center at the University of Insubria, has…
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School museums as tools for learning cities: the case of the Museum of School and Education “Mauro Laeng” (MuSEd)
Almost a century ago, Gramsci argued that the educational relationship for the formation of the citizen necessarily…
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Re-discovering urban spaces through heritage: children’s experiences
In cities increasingly characterized by a desertification of social spaces (Mortari, 2008), this paper explores heritage…
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Invisible Cities as laboratories of democracy: learning cities from Calvino’s perspective, between education and relationships
The learning cities model is recognised for its perspectives on relational renewal, lifelong learning and social…
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The city behind bars: educational pathways and confined stories in the penitentiary institutions
Education in the penitentiary facilities plays a fundamental role in the fields of lifelong learning and inclusive…
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Learning Cities as places of education and change: urban and social spaces for the prevention of gender-based violence
Learning Cities are a model that aims to respond to the difficulties faced by diverse and global communities. This…
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Learning Cities: New ‘places’ for building the common good for the birth of new communities
One of the key aspects in the design of ‘Learning Cities’ is “the construction of a sense of citizenship”, which…
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The city as an exploratory landscape and learning environment
The city, as a complex ecosystem, allows the acquisition of skills for the exercise of citizenship. Pedagogy, a science…
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The City and the Prison: Control Mechanisms and Generative Possibilities of the Prison in Learning Cities
Within the learning city - one whose walls are welcoming and inclusive - education must be reimagined, especially in…

Studi e contributi di ricerca

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Learning City and Inclusion. The Street Competences of Homeless People in a Lifelong Learning Perspective
Access to learning is a crucial element in an inclusive learning city perspective. Homelessness is one of the most…
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Learning community: connecting cultural heritage to local development
This article applies the construct of the 'learning city' to the context of territorial communities. These communities,…
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Learning in prison as a challenge for Learning Cities. Reflections from the Learning Math in Prison project
The concept of Learning City aims to promote inclusive learning for all, from basic to higher education, including…
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Learning cities for teacher education. Phenomenology of experience for a pedagogy of exploration
How can urban exploration function as a site of learning? What epistemological frameworks can drive innovation in…
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The strategic role of teacher training for a learning city
The Learning City concept highlights the role of local educational and cultural institutions, encouraging them to…
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Smart educational ecosystems and digital transformation of urban education: an analysis of teaching practices and emerging technologies in italian schools
Digital innovation is redefining the role of schools within the urban ecosystem, transforming them into distributed and…
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Service Learning and Learning City: Exploring School-Community Collaboration in Local Education Networks
The 2021 UNESCO Report refers to Service Learning (SL) as a pedagogy that integrates learning with a strong sense of…
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From the “city as a classroom” to the learning city: toward an experience of landscape pedagogy between children's literature and planetary education
After a historical reconstruction starting with Marshall McLuhan's contribution to the definition of a “city as a…
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Learning City and Smart City: a strategic integration for the development of citizens' soft skills
The learning city model proposed by UNESCO (UNESCO, 2015 e 2017) and the urban paradigm commonly known as smart city…
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Physical and sports activities, university life and free time management for the promotion of well-being in Learning Cities
This paper investigates the theme of Learning Cities in relation to university life, physical and sports activities and…
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Educating the city. Cultural heritage, volunteering and beauty for inclusive regeneration
Urban regeneration cannot be limited to the physical transformation of spaces, but must translate into an authentic…
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A culture of sustainability rooted in the territory. The Open-Air Lab actions within the MUSA project
The article frames the theme of Learning Cities by taking as an example the way in which the Open-Air Lab research…
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Bridging the Boundaries of Learning: European Youth’s Experiences Across Formal, Non-Formal, and Informal Education
This contribution explores the findings of a phenomenological research investigating the trajectories of European youth…
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Beyond Time Constraints: Quality and Effectiveness in the Comparison between Four-year and Five-year High Schools in Southern Italy
The following study aims to analyze the effectiveness of four-year and five-year high school educational pathways within…
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Supporting young people in the learning city: educability, regenerative capacity and new practices of community work
For some time now, the prospects of the “learning city” paradigm have been discussed both in academia and within the…
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The role of inclusive culture between being a Learning City and making “community”: the case of Turin
The Learning City recognises the need to ensure the learning and well-being of its entire population, consistent with an…

Fuori call

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Meta-prompting in Education: the role of Artificial Intelligence in students' metacognitive development for effective question formulation
In recent years, growing attention has been directed toward the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support the…
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Rethinking assessment in Italian primary schools: moving beyond descriptive judgements post - 2025 reform
Five years later, primary school teachers found themselves in the midst of the 2024/2025 academic year applying…
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University lecturers between social fields, social worlds and communities of practice: empirical analysis of a case study
This paper explores the complex dynamics involving university lecturers, particularly professional lecturers, within the…
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The tutor-student relationship in teacher identity formation. Research perspective
This paper examines the role of practicum and tutoring in the initial training of teachers, with particular attention to…
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A Toolkit for Designing Outdoor Education
This study investigates the potential of a Toolkit for the design of Outdoor Education paths for infant, primary and…
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Towards English for Specific Purposes in teacher education: A needs analysis of prospective preprimary teachers of English
This study explores the affordances of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in teacher education, in light of recent…