Early school leaving is a complex phenomenon that often appears as a combination of individual factors, personal history, and the cultural context. Moreover, this phenomenon impacts the individual's paths, choices, quality of life and the social and cultural capital of the country in which they live. Actions to tackle early school leaving, therefore, promote, on the one hand, the improvement of individual life paths and, on the other, the promotion of conditions for the cultural and economic progress of the social context. The primary purpose of the paper is to describe intervention strategies to fight school drop-out in Italy. It focuses on the different levels of intervention used both inside and outside of schools to contrast school dropout. It briefly presents several research projects conducted at different times and within different contexts. It focuses on tackling early school leaving during the Covid-19 time. Through the experiences reported, the aim is to present, synthetically and without claiming to be exhaustive, the variety and the heterogeneity of contexts, tools, objectives, of the intervention areas. This is an opportunity to take stock and to share some reflections on the persistence of the early school leaving phenomena, which endure notwithstanding the multiplicity, across time, of measures and interventions to fight it. What are the possible reasons for this?
La dispersione scolastica è un fenomeno complesso, che si manifesta, spesso, come risultante di una combinazione di fattori diversi, individuali, di provenienza, di contesto. Ed è un fenomeno che ha un impatto importante non solo sui percorsi, le scelte e la qualità di vita dell’individuo, ma anche sul capitale sociale e culturale del paese in cui egli vive. Le azioni di contrasto alla dispersione scolastica, dunque, favoriscono da un lato il miglioramento dei percorsi di vita dei singoli, dall’altro la promozione di condizioni per il progresso culturale ed economico del contesto sociale. Proposito del contributo è quello di presentare alcune delle principali politiche e misure d’intervento intraprese in questi anni per contrastare il fenomeno della dispersione in istruzione, aggravato dalla crisi pandemica da Covid-19. Attraverso le esperienze riportate si intende rappresentare, sinteticamente e senza alcuna pretesa di esaustività, la varietà e l’eterogeneità, di contesti, di strumenti, di obiettivi, delle aree di intervento. Un’occasione per fare il punto e condividere alcune riflessioni sulla persistenza di fenomeni di dispersione scolastica che permangono nonostante il moltiplicarsi, nel tempo, di misure e azioni per il contrasto. Quali le possibili ragioni?
Come contrastare la dispersione scolastica: policy, progetti, buone pratiche e alcune riflessioni. How to tackle early school leaving: policy, projects, best practices and some reflections / Vecchiarelli, Mirko; Szpunar, Giordana. - In: Q-TIMES WEBMAGAZINE. - ISSN 2038-3282. - 3(2022), pp. 45-60. [10.14668/QTimes_14305]
Come contrastare la dispersione scolastica: policy, progetti, buone pratiche e alcune riflessioni. How to tackle early school leaving: policy, projects, best practices and some reflections
Mirko Vecchiarelli
;Giordana Szpunar
2022
Abstract
Early school leaving is a complex phenomenon that often appears as a combination of individual factors, personal history, and the cultural context. Moreover, this phenomenon impacts the individual's paths, choices, quality of life and the social and cultural capital of the country in which they live. Actions to tackle early school leaving, therefore, promote, on the one hand, the improvement of individual life paths and, on the other, the promotion of conditions for the cultural and economic progress of the social context. The primary purpose of the paper is to describe intervention strategies to fight school drop-out in Italy. It focuses on the different levels of intervention used both inside and outside of schools to contrast school dropout. It briefly presents several research projects conducted at different times and within different contexts. It focuses on tackling early school leaving during the Covid-19 time. Through the experiences reported, the aim is to present, synthetically and without claiming to be exhaustive, the variety and the heterogeneity of contexts, tools, objectives, of the intervention areas. This is an opportunity to take stock and to share some reflections on the persistence of the early school leaving phenomena, which endure notwithstanding the multiplicity, across time, of measures and interventions to fight it. What are the possible reasons for this?I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.