A boundary can be a barrier (between cultures, languages and people) or, on the contrary an open door, a territory for meeting, place of peaceful cohabitation and positive “contamination”. Also, a border can be the best place to export an important experience of multiculturalism: “a periphery” of national identity and “a centre” of the European one. In Venezia Giulia, a border region characterized by linguistic minorities both in Italian and Slovenian territory, there is a need for cultural integration and getting to know the other side; in fact, there are still some difficulties when it comes to confrontation between the Italians and the Slovenians, which are mainly due to historical reasons despite their common belonging to the EU and to the Schenghen space. In order to favour an achievement of such a result, by solving ethnic and cultural issues that characterize also some other European border regions, in 2007 a multilateral biennial project was born, sponsored by EU and named “School on Borders”. There are local entities involved, schools of various types and importance in border localities of six countries (Italy, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Poland and Northern Ireland), with the Department of Geography , Human and Environmental Sciences of the Milan University as the scientific coordinator. Among the project partners, there is the “P. Trubar – S. Gregorčič” high school from Gorizia, where the teaching is done in Slovenian. The Italian is taught parallel to the mother-tongue. English and /or German are taught as second and/or third foreign language. This schools has Italian students whose mother-tongue is Slovenian, which makes them bilingual, and also Slovenian students from Nova Gorica or other Slovenian localities. There is a multicultural atmosphere in the school, and the political and linguistic separation between North-East Italy and Slovenia that conditioned – and still does –both these countries, here has no sense. This school, together with other “School on Borders” partners, contributes to the realisation of a compendium of best practices, as a collections of actions meant to manage and improve the particular geographical context of existence in border spaces, whose main feature is being multi-cultural.

European project “School on borders”. Culture without borders between Italy and Slovenia / A. Violante. ((Intervento presentato al convegno Il primo convegno dei geografi dell'alto Adriatico. Gestione comune della zona senza confini tenutosi a Koper (SLO) nel 2008.

European project “School on borders”. Culture without borders between Italy and Slovenia

A. Violante
Primo
2008

Abstract

A boundary can be a barrier (between cultures, languages and people) or, on the contrary an open door, a territory for meeting, place of peaceful cohabitation and positive “contamination”. Also, a border can be the best place to export an important experience of multiculturalism: “a periphery” of national identity and “a centre” of the European one. In Venezia Giulia, a border region characterized by linguistic minorities both in Italian and Slovenian territory, there is a need for cultural integration and getting to know the other side; in fact, there are still some difficulties when it comes to confrontation between the Italians and the Slovenians, which are mainly due to historical reasons despite their common belonging to the EU and to the Schenghen space. In order to favour an achievement of such a result, by solving ethnic and cultural issues that characterize also some other European border regions, in 2007 a multilateral biennial project was born, sponsored by EU and named “School on Borders”. There are local entities involved, schools of various types and importance in border localities of six countries (Italy, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Poland and Northern Ireland), with the Department of Geography , Human and Environmental Sciences of the Milan University as the scientific coordinator. Among the project partners, there is the “P. Trubar – S. Gregorčič” high school from Gorizia, where the teaching is done in Slovenian. The Italian is taught parallel to the mother-tongue. English and /or German are taught as second and/or third foreign language. This schools has Italian students whose mother-tongue is Slovenian, which makes them bilingual, and also Slovenian students from Nova Gorica or other Slovenian localities. There is a multicultural atmosphere in the school, and the political and linguistic separation between North-East Italy and Slovenia that conditioned – and still does –both these countries, here has no sense. This school, together with other “School on Borders” partners, contributes to the realisation of a compendium of best practices, as a collections of actions meant to manage and improve the particular geographical context of existence in border spaces, whose main feature is being multi-cultural.
28-nov-2008
Border ; school ; Italy ; Slovenia ; multiculturalism ; nationality
Settore M-GGR/01 - Geografia
Univerza na Primorskem, Koper
Univerza na Primorskem, Znanstveno-Raziskovalno Sredisce Koper
European project “School on borders”. Culture without borders between Italy and Slovenia / A. Violante. ((Intervento presentato al convegno Il primo convegno dei geografi dell'alto Adriatico. Gestione comune della zona senza confini tenutosi a Koper (SLO) nel 2008.
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