The city that learns, or Learning City, represents an emerging paradigm of sustainable urban development, based on lifelong learning, social inclusion and innovation. This paper explores how the concept of the Learning City intertwines with the Leaving No One Behind principle of the United Nations…

The essay proposed here aims to lay the theoretical foundations for an Archive of marginal cultures, with the valorization of the wise role of the elderly and taking as a sample an internal area of Calabria, including the Municipalities of Grecanic language, with Reggio Calabria as the leader. The…

The Piano delle Fosse Granarie can be seen as an open-air educational space, an example of situated learning rooted in historical memory and community identity. As an agricultural archive and civic resource, it offers opportunities for active citizenship, cultural ecology and social cohesion. The…

Learning Cities are a model that aims to respond to the difficulties faced by diverse and global communities. This article explores the role of Learning Cities as key tools for preventing and raising awareness of gender-based violence and inequalities. Urban and social spaces, such as Centri…

The Learning City recognises the need to ensure the learning and well-being of its entire population, consistent with an inclusive approach according to the principle of ‘Leaving No One Behind’. It is precisely in the area of learning and wellbeing that culture plays a fundamental role, thus…

In the context of integrated reception – understood as a holistic and emancipatory approach to care – the central element remains the creation of meaningful interpersonal and social relationships, that allow refugees to feel like active protagonists of a community. This paper presents a case…

School should be an environment where every student has the opportunity to grow and reach their highest potential through an educational experience that respects and values diversity. This requires an active engagement on the part of the school community in creating a welcoming climate and…

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education is becoming increasingly important in today's society, as technology continues to advance and shape our world. However, effective STEM pedagogy requires more than just teaching these subjects in isolation. It involves creating a…

Today it is not complex to detect a great fragmentation of the fields of experience, which translates into the diversity of languages and symbolic codes, and in the multiplicity of evaluation criteria with which one approaches the study of the surrounding reality. A fragmented situation, therefore,…

The new educational emergencies, exacerbated by the pandemic situation, highlight the need for a pedagogy committed to building new possible paths of “social citizenship”, declined in its complexity and multidirectional: on the one hand as civicness, on the other as citizenship. The debate on…

Thanks to the tumultuous digital technologies development, nowadays we live in a world without boundaries, characterized by liquid communities that meet and collide, sometimes denying mutual recognition. We move in a communicative bulimia where information runs like in a circus where the sense and…

In this paper we’re trying to explain the first Italian experience of collaboration between Umbria Region and Regional Education Autority (USR) for the community of “animatori digitali” (teachers with particular role for the digital transformation of schools). A special network where the…

The social system is profoundly changed, producing important consequences both in the school, and in our "communities." The concept of community is polysemic and various, depending on the perspective from which we study it. So, this essay focuses on the nature of the school as educational community.…