Comenius CMP Project “SAS Success at School through volunteering” (2012-2014) (Project n. 526187-LLP).The fied of research concern the methodological theoretical frame
of the anthropology of the contemporaneity and they intend to
deepen some sociocultural processes of the actual world - city,
migration and cultural tourism, media, human rights - with
particular attention to the educational contexts. New lines of
prosecution of this fields of research are: the relationship
between migrant families and and services to the childhood;
cultural politics in the multicultural contexts.The ethnographic
method constitutes the perspective through which to analyze the
educational contexts allowing an interdisciplinary dialogue with
other perspectives of research; such perspective has been, in
the preceding years to the center both of itineraries of
research-action of education to the human rights that in those of
analyze to the language of the media. If the educational
contexts can be cultured as spaces of social inclusion to the
social networks of the urban territory (migrant families and young
people of "second generation"), such perspective has now allowed to
deepen new lines of search: the scholastic and social drop-out of
the "second generations"; the relationship between cultural
difference and gender in the educational relationships in family
and in the services of childhood; the transformations in the
cultural planning of the institutions (museums, libraries,
theaters) turned to the "new citizens". Another field of
investigation concerns, finally, the particularly evident processes
of impoverishment in urban areas characterized by tall standards of
comfort; such analysis also aims to build a network of public and
private interlocutors with the purpose to individualize processes
of social inclusion through, for instance, the tool of the
microcredit.
The interdisciplinary research of the Department of Education
Science, (co-ordinator M.Grazia Contini) on
“The
educational care in multicultural contexts”. Since 2009
the attention within this area has been focused on the issue
of
“Childhoods and migrant Families in the nursery
school”. This perspective of analysis qualifies also my
involvement in the PRIN research
“Young migrants, migratory
processes and urban contexts”(2007-2009).
Particularly, actually, the fields of my activity of research
concern:
- Childhood, families, migrant processes. Different occasions of
research (PRIN: "
Young migrants, migratory processes and urban
contexts” (2007-2009) scientific
co-ordination Matilde Callari Galli; the
interdisciplinary researches of the Dip. of Sciences of the
education, "
The care in Education" (2007-2009) and
"
Childhoods and Families ...”
(2009-2011) - scientific co-ordination Maria
Grazia Contini) they have allowed me to deepen more specific two
fileds of research: the relationship between migrant young
people and the urban context particularly on the role that
plays in it the scholastic experience; the relationship between
migrant families and educational and scholastic services to
childhood, with particular respect to the phase of "reception"
(from the analysis of the protocols of reception to the "point of
view" on the school of the immigrated families). This activity of
research on the theoretical plan has allowed me to discuss
the category of "second generations" and of "transnational
families"; on the plain ethnographic, I am deepening, the dynamics
of the scholastic failure of the "second generations" and in
general the specificity their process of identitary construction as
the models of share to the scholastic life between school and
families proper to the contexts multiculturali.
- Urban contexts and migrant processes. A seam of research
concerns particularly the study of the migrant community
through the ethnographic analysis of the urban context (Bologna)
with the purpose to deepen the study both on the plan of their
practices - agreements as the forms and the ways to live different
spaces of the city: school, services, associations, public places,
etc. - both on the plan of the representations produced by these
groups - narrations that have for object the city of landing,
relationships with the inhabitants, with the country of origin,
with the present services on the territory particularly those
concerning the childhood and the adolescence. It will deal with an
ethnographic exploration of the young people and belonging migrant
women to migrant families to deepen the experience of
such immigration by the Italian society, in terms of institutional
practices, social representations.
- Poverty and microcredit in the contemporary society. I have been
involved as responsible of the Anthropological Area in the
University Strategic
Project
“M.i.c.r.o” (2006-2008) about micro-credit
as social intervention tool against poverty. Among its activities,
I have involved on the realisation of a
“Plan of
practicality for the implementation of experiences of Micro-credit
Grameen Italy”. Such filed of research is continued with a
research concern to the relationship between migrant women and
experiences of microcredit in Italy.
Comenius CMP Project “SAS Success at School through volunteering” (2012-2014) (Project n. 526187-LLP), this is a research in the field of Anthropology of Education particularly focusing on issues such as school performance, drop-out, school and communities, inclusive education patterns and education policies.
