Naples laboratory and frontier of the new school among the cities that go to vote. "Present schooling is the clearest sign of Italy's restart," said the President Sergio Mattarella at the start of the school year in Pizzo Calabro. But it doesn't always start again everywhere and in the same way. The circumstance of the start of the new year see Naples as a national experimental site of an engaging journey. Sustainable and unique in the panorama of Italian education. A journey that looks at the redemption of a city afflicted by historical ills in vdaughter of a decisive electoral round for its future as a great metropolis. It is certainly a city that needs to have more regard for its schools. Knowing how to organize spaces and times suitable for the development, the economy, the growth of his boys to keep them. If - to quote Mattarella again - "the school is society's oxygen and its functioning is the mirror of that of the country" here we must commit ourselves to the of dispersion and abandonment, certainly, but also on that of structures, social organization, mobility, technologies.
Il Educational Cooperation Movement, Association of teachers and educators, which has been involved in the living body of the city for years, takes charge of it. As part of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of its foundation organized a study day on "Educational ecosystems and the fight against dispersion and abandonment" for Saturday 25 September. A stimulating event, with experts and scholars, sponsored by the Ministry of Education and which aims to pick up the threads of a job in favor of the most disadvantaged. In recent years they have increased and for the most desperate reasons. Its existence is perceived every time we talk about school-work courses, training, new professions, entry into the world of work. Against the backdrop of contradictions that have never been resolved, aggravated by the inadequacy of ruling classes who are too hasty in their decisions. You are in front of, in short, ad a deficient educational ecosystem, which calls for good buildings, laboratories, adequate environments, cleanliness, participation. All aggravated by the pandemic, by industrial desertification, when it got stronger the need to bring young people closer to study and job prospects. The quality of the study and political sensitivity as indicators of a rebirth for which, coincidentally, the former rector of the Federico II University is also in the field as a candidate for mayor, Gaetano Manfredi.
The decennial experience of the MCE with an eye to environmental issues and urban development, boasts significant experiences in Naples. After-school activities in the slums, popular kindergartens, initiatives in difficult neighbourhoods, while iThe productive fabric was impoverished and alternatives to education came from segments of society beyond democratic control. What can the teachers of this organization do who in thefamily album includes pedagogues such as C. Freinet, teachers such as A. Bernardini, A. Manzi ? The complexity of the territory is a synthesis of variety and contrasts, say the organizers of the Neapolitan day. Here we start with past experiences that today offer food for thought and analysis for projects to be developed in schools, universities and civil society. It is above all from the latter that the forward shot can come. Taking “new paths of work that can contribute to a popular pedagogy“ with new methods and technologies without neglecting rights. Why "It's never too late" to learn, said Alberto Manzi, historic exponent of the MCE.
