IEA’s International Civic and Citizenship Education Study and the Teaching of Civic Education in Italy

Palmerio, Laura; Damiani, Valeria; Caponera, Elisa

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Active Citizenship and Participation Through “Dialogues in the Square”

Beatrice Ligorio,

Barzanò,

Amenduni

et al. 2024

Education and Dialogue in Polarized Societies

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In this chapter we describe an ongoing project (“Dialogues in the Square”—DiS) that started in 2017, where active citizenship and social participation are developed through concrete actions concerning the improvement of public spaces. The project focuses on students’ analysis of the degradation of an important historical square in Rome, to plan and implement innovative interventions tackling its flaws, while exploiting its potential to contribute to the common good. Nineteen classes of students (age 8–19), from two schools, have been involved for different periods of time, from one to four years. The DiS project offers a rich array of opportunities for dialogue inside and outside the school. Several stakeholders are engaged with students and teachers on different subjects, including the local municipality, artists, academics, and experts of different fields. Creativity, dreams, and ideas are continuously shared and negotiated, while considering challenges, opportunities, and constraints. Overall, the project can be seen as a broad landscape for dialogue between various human and nonhuman actors: students, teachers, classes, institutions, stakeholders, community, environment, and monuments. Many artefacts were used and produced, including working materials and videos, renderings, and posters prepared by students. Working sessions were video-recorded, and teachers were interviewed. We qualitatively analyzed these materials to understand what type of dialogue is activated by the multiplicity of agents involved in the project and to reflect upon the role school should cover to support active citizenship.

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Active Citizenship and Participation Through “Dialogues in the Square”

Beatrice Ligorio,

Barzanò,

Amenduni

et al. 2024

Education and Dialogue in Polarized Societies

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Young people’s civic engagement in Italy: evidence on grade 8 students from the international civic and citizenship education study (ICCS) 2016

Damiani,

Caponera,

Losito

et al. 2024

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Civic engagement represents a key aspect of a democratic society and is itself a multidimensional construct. Research has shown that the promotion of civic engagement is an important component of civic and citizenship education intended in a broad sense, pertaining to formal, non-formal and informal learning situations. Within a national scenario characterised by increasing levels of general institutional disaffection and a lack of electoral and political involvement, the recent reform in the area of civic and citizenship education (Law 92/2019) has led to lively debates on the status of its implementation in Italian schools and recent research at the national level has highlighted the lack of activities to promote students’ engagement. This study further investigates the ICCS 2016 findings on civic engagement of Italian students with two objectives: to identify possible groups of Italian eighth-grade students on the basis of their level of civic engagement and to examine the associations among these groups and some key factors reflecting school contexts and students’ attitudes and behaviours. To reach these goals, the data analyses encompassed a latent profile analysis and a logistic regression model. The latent profile analysis allowed the identification of three groups of Italian students: disengaged, moderately engaged and engaged students. The results of the regression model showed that engaged students were characterised by a higher level of citizenship self-efficacy. These findings confirm those of previous research on the key role of internal self-efficacy in promoting students’ civic engagement.

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IEA’s International Civic and Citizenship Education Study and the Teaching of Civic Education in Italy

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Active Citizenship and Participation Through “Dialogues in the Square”

Active Citizenship and Participation Through “Dialogues in the Square”

Young people’s civic engagement in Italy: evidence on grade 8 students from the international civic and citizenship education study (ICCS) 2016

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