THE CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS IN SCHOOLS: THE NEW CHALLENGES – Conference in Naples

IMG_3794 Was held in Naples on 10-11 March 2016 the third national seminar sponsored by MIUR in cooperation with theNational Observatory for the integration of foreign students and for intercultural established in 2014….

The purpose of the seminars is to focus on the organizational needs and school teaching in multicultural contexts of particular complexity and promote the Exchange and comparison of skills, experience and good practice between different territories, also in collaboration with Association, Research institutes, Local Authorities, University.
The presence of "new Italians" may be an opportunity and a chance for change for all; the plurality of our schools can already now be laboratory for coexistence and new citizenship to the Italy of tomorrow.

The seminar was organized by:
USR for Campania
MIUR Department for the education system of education and training
MIUR general direction for the student, the integration and participation
City of Naples – Education DepartmentThe inaugural meeting of the seminar took place in the art Hall of the barons of Castel Nuovo in the presence of Undersecretary of Sato Davide Pharaoh, the Mayor of Naples, Luigi De Magistris, the Director-General of USR Campania Luisa Fernandez, the Councillor at the instruction of the Comune di Napoli Annamaria Palmieri, by Vinicio Obiakor of Directorate-General for the student, the integration and participation….
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… and it began with songs from the multiethnic choir of the JV Bovio-Colletta di Napoli, a group of guys that did resonate under the vaults of this important monument notes and words of several significant airs …There is all the wonderful people of this town…

Many participants have said "... at this point, After seeing the children sing we can also go home. There is no need to continue the seminar !!
Were arranged 4 thematic sections, one dedicated to childhood, the second relates to how school in the suburbs, then the topic of teaching Italian as language2, and finally the question of the curricula, to be reviewed on the occasion of the big changes taking place in schools with the presence of these children.
In the crowded subgroup related to curricula, and that is how they can and should change curricula in schools with a strong immigrant presence, were presented different experiences of interculturality in schools of all types and levels of reality scattered all over the country.

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"Could be an opportunity" he argued Marco Rossi Doria The NSU Campania "to rethink the curricula to create cosmopolitanism with different languages available, trying to abandon the segmentation of the study by puncturing disciplinary boundaries in favour of a transverse redial. " This theme was then taken up by myself in plenary highlighting the interest expressed by the MCE has relatively to the issue and considering possible availability of the movement to work together to study and experimentation in this regard on curricula throughout the country.
There have been some significant experiences including:
Paola Painter Network Integration foreign students from Treviso www.retetrevisointegrazionealunnistranieri.it
Maria Omodeo of COSPE (Cooperation for the development of emerging countries) who explained the interesting experience of twinning and cultural exchanges between the area of lawn and a Chinese province West of Shanghai
Maria Rosa Baker (School Leader) and Cynthia Dark (teacher) dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni XXIII di Martina Franca (BR)

IMG_3770 multiethnic chorus IC Bovio Colletta -Napoli

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