L’interculturalità nelle scuole medie milanesi : progetto di intervento formativo

The aim of this paper is to provide theoretical and scientific frameworks for enhancing multicultural education, intended as that discipline which not only seeks to create equal educational opportunities for students from diverse ethnic, social-class, and cultural groups , but also to pursue an educated, autonomous citizenry able to live together respecting cultural differences and to discuss the organization of public spaces and their shape. Given its scope, the present article is divided into two parts. First, a theoretical section is devoted to those ideas of liberalism, pluralism, democratic discourse in their relations to civic education. Reasoning among such concepts is essential to understand the framework within which the research takes place for such ideas shape and inform the educational program set up and conducted in the classrooms. In particular, the research design relies heavily on John Rawls’s conception of liberalism. Second, the article proceeds by describing the outlook of the educational program and the results collected within the research carried out in the school year 2008/2009 by CeSEP, the Center of Public Ethics of the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele.