Educating for Interculturalism today evokes a reality in which cultural diversity, often trivialized and demeaned in public discourse, escapes deep scrutiny, despite continuing to press for recognition in its rich potential. This reality urges us not to dwell only on the most visible conditions with which it is often associated: poverty, exclusion, discrimination, and inequality. We cannot practice interculturalism merely by bearing witness to injustices; we must make concrete choices, getting involved and acting within organizations, starting with schools, to cultivate attitudes of curiosity, openness, and flexibility. This is so that everyone's cultural and value references are not considered the only possible ones, and so that we equip ourselves to build relationships from a perspective of encounter, dialogue, and reciprocity. In this difficult historical context of crisis linked to the spread of the pandemic, the long-term resident immigrant, essentially unseen—whose concrete existence, after all, no one seems interested in knowing—appears to be just another nuisance to be removed. The work of building norms and laws that shape a community where all its cultural and social components can support each other in reciprocity has never been truly accomplished, except in fragmented ways. There has often been a preference to delegate this to the third sector, which is precarious, unstable, and always in search of funding. Perhaps what is needed is a well-structured and systemic integration program, one that works to correct the common perception of non-Italian resident citizens as isolated and vulnerable "extras," rather than as constitutive parts of the community.

Educare all'Intercultura, oggi, evoca una realtà in cui la diversità culturale, spesso banalizzata e umiliata nel dibattito pubblico, sfugge a uno sguardo profondo, nonostante continui a premere per essere conosciuta nelle sue ricche potenzialità, inducendo a non fermarsi solo sulle condizioni più evidenti a cui è spesso associata: povertà, esclusione, discriminazione e disparità. Non si può fare intercultura limitandosi a testimoniare le ingiustizie, occorre assumere scelte concrete, mettendosi in gioco e agendo sulle organizzazioni, in primis sulla scuola, per coltivare atteggiamenti di curiosità, apertura e flessibilità, affinché i riferimenti culturali e valoriali di ciascuno/a non vengano considerati come gli unici possibili e ci si attrezzi a costruire relazioni in una prospettiva di incontro, di dialogo, di reciprocità. L'immigrato residente, sostanzialmente non-visto, la cui esistenza concreta tutto sommato non interessa conoscere, in questo difficile contesto storico di crisi connessa alla diffusione della pandemia, sembrerebbe essere solo una grana aggiunta alle altre da rimuovere. Il lavoro di costruzione di norme e leggi qualificanti una comunità in cui tutte le sue componenti culturali e sociali siano in grado di sostenersi nella reciprocità non è mai stato fatto, se non in modo frammentario. Si è spesso preferito delegare il terzo settore a occuparsene, il quale è precario, instabile, sempre in cerca di finanziamenti. Forse occorrerebbe un programma per l'integrazione ben strutturato e strutturale, che agisca per correggere la percezione comune che vede i cittadini non italiani residenti, isolati e vulnerabili, degli «in più» e non parte costitutiva delle comunità.

Marulo, C., Conte, G. (2021). Intercultura. Affrontare insieme i passaggi fra le lingue. COOPERAZIONE EDUCATIVA, 70(3), 88-90.

Intercultura. Affrontare insieme i passaggi fra le lingue

Carla Marulo;
2021

Abstract

Educating for Interculturalism today evokes a reality in which cultural diversity, often trivialized and demeaned in public discourse, escapes deep scrutiny, despite continuing to press for recognition in its rich potential. This reality urges us not to dwell only on the most visible conditions with which it is often associated: poverty, exclusion, discrimination, and inequality. We cannot practice interculturalism merely by bearing witness to injustices; we must make concrete choices, getting involved and acting within organizations, starting with schools, to cultivate attitudes of curiosity, openness, and flexibility. This is so that everyone's cultural and value references are not considered the only possible ones, and so that we equip ourselves to build relationships from a perspective of encounter, dialogue, and reciprocity. In this difficult historical context of crisis linked to the spread of the pandemic, the long-term resident immigrant, essentially unseen—whose concrete existence, after all, no one seems interested in knowing—appears to be just another nuisance to be removed. The work of building norms and laws that shape a community where all its cultural and social components can support each other in reciprocity has never been truly accomplished, except in fragmented ways. There has often been a preference to delegate this to the third sector, which is precarious, unstable, and always in search of funding. Perhaps what is needed is a well-structured and systemic integration program, one that works to correct the common perception of non-Italian resident citizens as isolated and vulnerable "extras," rather than as constitutive parts of the community.
2021
Marulo, C., Conte, G. (2021). Intercultura. Affrontare insieme i passaggi fra le lingue. COOPERAZIONE EDUCATIVA, 70(3), 88-90.
Marulo, Carla; Conte, Graziella
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