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…

This article applies the construct of the 'learning city' to the context of territorial communities. These communities, facing difficulties resulting from marginalization processes—a consequence of globalization which has concentrated opportunities and wealth in predominantly urban hubs—seek to…

The article frames the theme of Learning Cities by taking as an example the way in which the Open-Air Lab research group, within the MUSA project, has worked on the construction of a participatory culture of sustainability in the city of Milan. After outlining the theoretical framework of the…

Today’s sociocultural complexity urges pedagogical research to reflect on new educational and training needs to support the education of new generations, to make humanity flourish. Specifically, a contribution to the critical examination comes from the World Bank report “Achieving gender…

This article presents results from the first phase of an action research process conducted together with a group of secondary school teachers, with the aim of experimenting with actions that reduce educational risk and improve inclusion and participation in schools. The ‘Framework for…

In the age of datafication, our lives are increasingly created and managed online. This path seems irreversible and greater attention to the use and structures of the mass media, especially new media, seems equally essential. In this scenario, in which the main social media and their functions have…

The contribution presents the research-training implemented within the EduSostenibile project, funded by the “Con i Bambini Foundation”. The project proposal has promoted the birth and development of Educating Communities which has resulted in the construction of eight Territorial Educational…

This paper introduces the complex relationship among technology-school-society as framework of the discourses, processes and policies of the daily practices of schooling. Nowadays, we live in an interconnected digital ecosystem that represents a powerful architecture for user participation, posing…