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Engaging with diversity: the construction of policy for intercultural education in ItalyFootnote1

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Pages 137-150 | Published online: 11 Apr 2008
 

Abstract

Italy has become a destination for immigration, and this has had an impact on the linguistic and cultural diversity of school populations. In response to this changing profile, Italy has developed a series of language‐in‐education policies for meeting the needs of immigrant children. This paper traces the development of these policies and examines the ways in which the linguistic and cultural education of immigrants has been conceptualized. It traces a movement from policies relating to language and integration to intercultural education with a focus on developing the intercultural abilities of the entire population. At the same time, Italy’s language‐in‐education policies, while responding to the changed social profile resulting from immigration, have marginalized some aspects of immigrant children’s educational needs.

L’Italia è diventata una destinazione per l’immigrazione e questo ha avuto un impatto sulla diversità linguistico‐culturale della popolazione scolastica. In risposta a questo cambiamento, l’Italia ha sviluppato una serie di politiche linguistico‐educative per soddisfare le necessità dei bambini immigrati. Quest’articolo traccia lo sviluppo di queste politiche ed esamina il modo in cui l’inserimento linguistico‐culturale dei bambini immigrati è stato concettualizzato nell’ambito scolastico. Inoltre, traccia la loro evoluzione partendo da politiche riguardanti gli aspetti linguistici e l’integrazione scolastica all’educazione interculturale, focalizzata nello sviluppo delle abilità interculturali della popolazione intera. Le politiche linguistiche italiane in materia di istruzione hanno cercato in questo modo di rispondere al nuovo profilo sociale risultato dall’immigrazione, ma hanno, allo stesso tempo, emarginato degli aspetti riguardanti i bisogni educativi dei bambini immigrati.

Notes

1. This study was supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant.

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