Multiple discrimination and the risk of cultural impoverishment. Considerations regarding the pedagogical challenges of the complex society

Irene Biemmi; Emiliano Macinai

doi:10.6092/issn.1970-2221/12644

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Irene Biemmi Università di Firenze

Irene Biemmi is Researcher of Social Pedagogy at the Department of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology (FORLILPSI) at the University of Florence. Her areas of research interest concern gender issues in the education sector with particular reference to critical analysis of teaching materials, teacher training and school orientation.
Emiliano Macinai Università di Firenze

Emiliano Macinai is Associate Professor of Theory of Education and Social Education within the Department of Education and Psychology, University of Florence. He teaches Intercultural Education and Childhood Education and carries out his research in the field of the Childhood Studies, Human Rights and Interculture. Childhood education and the history of childhood have been the main theme of his studies during the three years of his doctorate and still remain the main field of his investigations. His research aims at analysing the long-lasting phenomena going with the changes in life-styles, family relationships and educational patterns. It finds further fields of closer examination in the study of contemporary times. The first field concerns the pedagogical reading of doctor Itard’s memories and, more in general, the theme of desertion related to the historical perspective of the so-called “wild youth”. The second field concerns children’s rights and focuses on the 20th century: it carries out a pedagogical reading of the related documents and analyses the implications for a renewed education to citizenship in the 3rd millennium. A wider dimension of pedagogical and intercultural research is introduced through the theme of the education to rights and citizenship, and the influence on education of the changes in advanced societies is studied in depth. The main aim of his research on the renewal of school and teaching, is the educational development of the major themes of pedagogical and intercultural reflection. The focus is on education and democratic citizenship, reception and interculture, communication and lesson planning.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1970-2221/12644

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children’s rights, racism, sexism, multiple discrimination, educational poverty

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of some of the major themes addressed by the Multidisciplinary Course on Human Rights Education coordinated by the author for the Department of Education, Languages, Interculture, Literature, and Psychology - FORLILPSI) of the University of Florence in collaboration with the Italian Committee for UNICEF. The main thrust of the course and therefore of these notes was and is valorisation of children’s rights education as a resource for combating the various types of discrimination that underlie processes of exclusion and social marginalization and that increase risks of educational poverty and cultural deprivation. More in detail, we analyze that set of cultural practices, behaviours, and beliefs that generate sexist and racial prejudices and lead to systematic violation of the rights of social groups, which thus suffer processes of inferiorisation.

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