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Interculturalism is a way to deal with the cultural difference, which is a growing issue today and often manipulated in politics. In recent years, the populism (along with sovranism, nationalism, and authoritarism) has been the true enemy of the intercultural discourse, widening intolerance and racism in both social interactions, media communication, and urban contexts. The article aims at analyzing the fundamentals of Interculturalism and their apparent discrepancy with populism, providing reflexivity as a remedy to the current loss of sense of the intercultural discourse which sometimes became functional to the institutional racism. Firstly, the article recalls the basic values to understand the different nuances of interculturalism; secondly, it argues that leaving the "passion for interculturalism" up to the practicalities disempowers the intercultural discourse within the ambivalence of the field level. The authors argue about the need to focus also on the intermediate level in which embedding a rigorous discourse, inspired by the "reflexivity" critique. This is applied to the policy making in some crucial social and educational fields. The social planner is meant to use clear "middle ray concepts" and to distinguish the intercultural solutions from the populistic ones, on the basis of 4 antinomies: simplicity vs. complexity; rapidity vs. duration; conflict vs. conciliation; self-centered self vs. decentered self.

In March 2020 all schools in Italy were closed due to the Covid‐19 pandemic, and the novelty of distance learning was introduced. During the 2020-2021 school year, pre‐primary and primary schooling was carried out in situ, while secondary education was re‐organized into a mixed system, with students spending 50% of their time attending classes from home, in distance learning. This reconfiguration was a challenge to students, teachers, and parents, affecting the learning experience of the most vulnerable students and students with disabilities, particularly. It necessarily brought into question Italy's "progressive" legal framework for "school inclusion". The scope of the present article is to analyze the teaching activities carried out with students with disabilities in Italy during the first wave of the emergency lockdown and their consequent challenges for school inclusiveness. An overview of the Italian inclusive model in education and the national measures adopted to guarantee the right to education during times of school closure/restriction is outlined. We have sought to test the hypothesis that distance learning may introduce many risks for inclusion (resulting in a "downgrading inclusion", that is, a decline of the level of inclusion already reached for students with disabilities), but it may also present an improvement in how teachers address these students and their needs. To this end, after reporting data from the available studies on this target, we provide insights from a web questionnaire submitted to a non‐probabilistic sample of nearly 150 primary and (lower and upper) secondary school teachers. Results showcase that, though with a general worsening of school inclusion, in some cases, teachers were actually able to support students with disabilities and their families in a new, customized, empathetic, and more attentive manner.

Gli interventi contro la dispersione scolastica sono centrati sul ripristino della relazione allievo- scuola. Tuttavia la letteratura scientifica dimostra che questo approccio si rivela inefficace se non si intacca la mancanza di "famigliarità reciproca" e la collaborazione paritaria tra scuola e famiglia. Il saggio intende verificare la natura precaria della collaborazione scuola-famiglia grazie allo studio di dispositivi contro la dispersione scolastica in Svizzera (Vaud) e del Piano Azione Coesione PAC F3 in Italia (regioni meridionali). L'analisi qualitativa e comparativa di documenti prodotti a seguito di precedenti studi permette d'individuare in quali condizioni la collaborazione risulta più vulnerabile e fragile, così come alcuni elementi che diminuiscono la fragilizzazione del legame tra la scuola e i genitori degli studenti a rischio. (DIPF/Orig.) ; Interventionen gegen Schulabbruch zentrieren sich vor allem auf die Wiederherstellung der Beziehungen zwischen Schule, Schülerinnen und Schülern. Doch die wissenschaftliche Literatur zeigt, dass diese Ansätze, ohne eine Behandlung der gegenseitigen Vertrautheit und der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Schule und Familien, nicht erfolgreich sind. In unserem Beitrag wird die Ungewissheit dieser Zusammenarbeit basierend auf Vergleichsanalysen von Programmen gegen Schulabbruch in der Schweiz (Vaud) und in Süditalien (Piano Azione Coesione PAC F3) überprüft. Die qualitative Analyse von verschiedenen Dokumenten erlaubte es uns, einige Bedingungen, die die Beziehungen zwischen Schule und Familie schwächen, und Elemente die diese Schwächung verringern, zu identifizieren. (DIPF/Orig.)

Nei processi migratori le persone con disabilità sono pressoché invisibili per quanto esposte a rischi crescenti di discriminazione negativa; riconoscere tale discriminazione multipla non e` semplice perché spesso e` implicita, nascosta dentro le prassi istituzionali e giuridiche, e non percepita come tale dalla stessa persona che ne è vittima. La conoscenza di questo fenomeno è parziale a tutti i livelli: la letteratura internazionale è limitata e specialistica (prevale l'ambito medico); gli studi sul campo - anche in Italia - sono rari. L'articolo, che introduce il dossier Disabilità e migrazione. Gli studi in Italia nel quale si traccia una prima mappa di come e dove gli svantaggi si vanno a cumulare nello spazio sociale, vuole delineare l'orizzonte di un campo di studi interdisciplinari che merita di essere approfondito sia per migliorare la conoscenza dei processi intersezionali di "disabilitazione" sia per rendere più efficace l'intervento nei contesti di care.

"The nine chapters in this book explore how the Italian education system responded to distance learning during the first wave of the pandemic. The impact of the hard lockdown on both teaching and learning revealed the inherent weaknesses of a system in which digital technology had only recently been introduced and highlighted the relevant inequalities in their access and use. While students, teachers and families adapted (albeit with difficulty) to the new learning and teaching routines, the institutions faced the challenge of ensuring quality and equality. By including various case studies and unedited sets of data collected in different areas of the country, the book offers up-to-date insights on the impact of the pandemic on the Italian school system and provides a broad introduction to the educational emergency from a sociological perspective. The volume ends with a post-commentary comparing the Italian case with the similar situation of school closure as it occurred in the United Kingdom"--