Education Under Way (Educazione in Corso) is a 24-month project created to counter educational poverty – preventing school dropouts, the NEET phenomenon and forms of academic deviance – in Municipality 1 of Bari.
The project presents an educational model, which strengthens motivation towards learning, develops a sense of belonging towards the school and the community, and contributes to inclusive, quality education for girls and boys aged 11 to 17.
Objectives
Education Under Way aims at creating considerable change among children:
- self-enhancement, learning to value one’s talents and interests, strengthening of self-esteem also through relationships with others;
- development of communication, expression and artistic skills, spirit of enterprise and initiative;
- revival towards the search for possible future paths, alternatives to premature school abandonment and academic deviance
Another objective concerns strengthening of the educating community through enhancement of public areas, spaces for self-expression and initiatives for communal moments.
Beneficiaries
The project is aimed at girls and boys aged 11 to 17 – who are undergoing transition from primary to middle or middle to high school – their families, their schools and their community.
Parents are accompanied to adopt a gaze of care, involvement and at no time judgmental with respect to changes in their children.
The school opens itself to the territory: the activities take place both within its premises and outside, in the nearing neighborhoods. They aim to create a dialogue and a reciprocity on important educational turnarounds with the community.
Actions of the project
active during and after school hours; aimed at 11-14 year-old pupils in situations of vulnerability; aims to enhance students’ motivation to learn, through study support and activities complementary curricular teaching.
activities that aim to make students more aware of their school progression, develop autonomy in the processes of choice, and help them reflect on their own aspirations, resources and their socio-cultural context of affinity.
trainings and meetings to improve the involvement of teachers and educators; sharing of methods and strategies in line with the present-day.
parenting support in the form of meetings and events aimed at setting off the involvement of families and introduce processes of educational co-responsibility.
a series of initiatives involving role modeling, tutoring and workshops to bring girls closer to studies within the scientific field.
activities to develop self-conscience; enhance understanding of oneself and one’s environment, the ability to choose and the responsibility of those choices.
activities in support of summer camps, to help promote active citizenship.
shared space and time to open up to inter-peer and intergenerational dialogue, promote active citizenship and counter forms of inactivity and non-participation.
Partnership
The schools ICS Giuseppe Garibaldi, I.P. “LUIGI SANTARELLA”, and I.I.S.S. G. MARCONI – M. HACK
Cinemovel Foundation, which presents a very collaborative methodology and which handles the animation of the community
CNIPA Puglia, professional training organization
Bass Culture Srl, entertainment and event agency
Faber City – Alberobello Community Cooperative, which deals with activities aimed at parents and the training of educational operators
SNAM Foundation (Fondazione SNAM), responsible for further in-depth studies and the promotion of STEM activities
The project in numbers
Overall, the project activities will reach
Project funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU – PNRR M5C3 – Investment 1.3 – Structured socio-educational interventions to combat educational poverty in Southern Italy in support of the Third Sector
