Valerio Ferrero

The learning cities model is recognised for its perspectives on relational renewal, lifelong learning and social innovation. Emphasising its educational value for an intercultural, sustainable and glocal citizenship, this paper explores the paradigm’s link with Italo Calvino’s The Invisible…

The practice of homework has long been internationally problematized because of its effects on social reproduction. By fitting into the discourse on equity in education and using the interpretive category of “non-traditional factors of inequality”, which refers to disparities produced by school…

This theoretical-conceptual paper aims to highlight the pedagogical potential of Matthew Lipman’s community philosophical practice for the education of complex thinking by elaborating its links with Gianni Rodari’s pedagogy. The analysis refers to four thematic cores: (1) narrative as a…

Italian Constitution assigns school a key role for social justice: assuming equity as a horizon of pedagogical meaning is essential. However, old and new inequalities weigh on students’ educational paths, generating iniquity. In this context, Antonio Gramsci’s thought on school is an important…

Starting from bill 2372/22, now in the Senato as Ddl 2493/22, the essay explores the link between non-cognitive competences and equity and social justice in education, thematizing the multiplicity of expressions referring to this domain of skills and attitudes and seeing in Philosophy for Children a…