AIPI Società Cooperativa

“Conflict management in pupils’ groups through Interculture”

12-15 April 2011Iasi - Romania

AIPI’s history

• AIPI Società Cooperativa was established in 2005, after the A.I.P.I Association, created by educators and teachers who, from 1993 al 2001 had managed the Interethnic Centre of the Immigration Service of the Municipality of Bologna.

• Close collaboration with schools and the territory for the reception and socio-cultural integration of children

(Some) types of intervention

• Reception and integration of foreign non – Italian speaking children in school

• Italian L2 courses in the schools of the First and Second Grade of the Province of Bologna

• Intercultural Workshops• Linguistic and cultural mediation• L1 Courses• After-school activities (Centro Interculturale

Comellini) • Creative workshops (Theatre, Poetry, Creative

Writing, Hand-work labs)

Reception and integrationthat is

Preparing the ground

Create a welcoming atmosphere in the school for children newly arrived in

Italy in order to- enhance the skills, abilities and personal knowledge for a fair

inclusion in accordance with local regulations (see Art.45, of Presidential Decree No.394 of 1999)

- facilitate the integration process between peers- create a path of Equal Opportunities in the Right to Education in accordance with the general principles established by the UN (Declaration of the Rights of the Child, Seventh Principle)

Laboratories of Italian as L2:providing the tools

• Laboratories of Italian as L2 at school in order to:

– Verbalize their feelings, tell about themselves – Create a system of positive interactions in the context

(student / student, student / actors of the school pupil area) – Gradually acquire linguistic, sociolinguistic and cultural

competences that nurture the range of "knowledge" and foster personal and shared reflection in meta-culture and interculture

– Providing the tools to give voice to the person through the channel language to avoid the frustration and isolation that can lead to misunderstandings and subsequent aggressive and violent expressions

Intercultural workshops in class

Among Intercultural skills (see CEFR) :“the ability to overcome stereotyped ways of relating”

Education to Meeting others, and to the Plurality of viewpoints

Interculture as Awareness -> requires a guidance ineducation to Respect of the Other

Linguistic and cultural Mediation

•Bridging the culture of origin and the culture of destination offering tools that allow a clear interpretation of both

•Facilitating exchange between people from different cultures, and mutual understanding between different educational systems

•Facilitating a clear communication in the school – pupil – family relations

•Linguistic and cultural Mediators as example of recognized success in the personal and social field

L1 Courses

• Language -> vehicle for socio-cultural meanings and values

• Valuing the native language to enhance an entire cultural system

• Preventing the occurrence of subtractive bilingualism

» Chinese language courses at I.T.C.S Rosa Luxemburg of Bologna addressed to Chinse students and Italian students / teachers alike

The “After- School” (Centro Interculturale Comellini)

Place of confrontation, conflict and meeting•between peers•with adults (educators and teachers)•with the territory

Integration through•Educational activities (L2 Study, study-support)•Recreational- educational activities (sport, territory exploration)

in a protected educational environment where the child is accompanied through a path of confrontation, conflict and meeting with the surrounding social and territorial environment

Play and Art workshops

• Creative manual workshops for younger children • Poetry workshops

• To foster collaborative work within the group

• to create an environment where problems can be expressed – discussed - solved

• to give voice to various forms of expressive skills

Theatre (intercultural) workshops• Theatre as a means of self expression conveyed by a variety of expressive communication channels

• to create positive relationships based on mutual listening

• Education to the interaction based on suspension of judgment on the Other

• estrangement from personal / conflict experience

• From reality to staging (Representation)

• From the Insights experienced in the scene to Reality (Extrapolation)

• Personal contribution becomes enrichment for oneself and for the group (individual and group enhancement as a body that takes on an identity)

» Expressiveness and success focus on choral work and not on protagonist / individualism

» An example of a theater workshop held at I.T.C. S. Rosa Luxemburg, Bologna :

http://www.crossingtv.it/video/extravisioni/episodio-24-valigie-di-storie-storie-di-valigie

Mulțumesc!Grazie!