The national health emergency, caused by the spread of Covid-19, involved the school system and required an effort to the school-family alliance and to institutions in order to promote e-learning.The paper describes strategies adopted to reschedule an educational project for primary schools, already tested as a pilot in 2019, in a e-learning version. The project Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow aims to reduce ethnic prejudice and promote anti-discrimination and inclusive practices through indirect contact, empathy and perspective taking. It uses drawings by migrant children, collected by the artist Bryan McCormack. Following the positive results of the pilot, the project has expanded in 2020 involving 12 primary schools’ classrooms in Rome. In order to face Covid-19, the suspension of traditional face-to-face didactic required an adjustment of the project in the e-learning mode, as shown in the paper. The rescheduling process is described in the paper, following the phases to define the educational setting, the strategies and the methods and it also focused difficulties and resources.
L’emergenza sanitaria nazionale, dovuta alla diffusione del covid-19, ha investito l’intero sistema di istruzione, richiedendo lo sforzo congiunto dell’alleanza scuola-famiglia e delle istituzioni per attivare forme di didattica a distanza. Il contributo descrive le strategie adottate per riprogrammare in modalità e-learning un progetto educativo per la scuola primaria, già sperimentato nell’a.s. 2018-2019. Il progetto Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow ha l’obiettivo di ridurre il pregiudizio etnico e promuovere pratiche antidiscriminatorie e inclusive attraverso il contatto indiretto, il perspective taking e l’empatia, usando i disegni di bambini migranti, raccolti dall’artista Bryan McCormack. In seguito ai positivi risultati della prima realizzazione (pubblicati in questa stessa rivista n.3, 2019), il progetto è stato diffuso nel corrente anno (2019-2020), coinvolgendo dodici classi IV e V di scuola primaria di Roma. La sospensione della didattica in presenza ha richiesto un adattamento delle attività previste dal progetto alle modalità a distanza. Il lavoro ripercorre tale processo di adattamento, descrivendo le fasi e le modalità di ridefinizione del setting educativo, delle strategie e degli strumenti utilizzati e riflettendo su criticità e potenzialità emerse.
Promuovere l’inclusione attraverso il “contatto a distanza”: il progetto Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow ai tempi dell’emergenza sanitaria
Gabrielli Sara
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2020-01-01
Abstract
The national health emergency, caused by the spread of Covid-19, involved the school system and required an effort to the school-family alliance and to institutions in order to promote e-learning.The paper describes strategies adopted to reschedule an educational project for primary schools, already tested as a pilot in 2019, in a e-learning version. The project Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow aims to reduce ethnic prejudice and promote anti-discrimination and inclusive practices through indirect contact, empathy and perspective taking. It uses drawings by migrant children, collected by the artist Bryan McCormack. Following the positive results of the pilot, the project has expanded in 2020 involving 12 primary schools’ classrooms in Rome. In order to face Covid-19, the suspension of traditional face-to-face didactic required an adjustment of the project in the e-learning mode, as shown in the paper. The rescheduling process is described in the paper, following the phases to define the educational setting, the strategies and the methods and it also focused difficulties and resources.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
