Promuovere processi inclusivi a scuola con il Digital Storytelling

One of the most significant educational challenges that schools have to facing today is to contrast any kind of social discrimination and scholastic burnout of students wich came from different cultures. With the aim of responding to this challenge, it has been set-up the European project Roma Inclusive School Experiences (RISE), coordinated by the University of Bologna. This project intends to promote scholastic and social inclusion of Roma children student who attend Italian, Portuguese and Slovenian primary and secondary schools, through the activation of research- training courses (created for teachers and policy makers) and workshops (theater, kitchen, rap, digital culture etc.) addressed to the students of participating classes. This paper presents the results of an exploratory survey aimed at detecting the impact of Digital Storytelling activities through the “voice” of the students. The collected data show that there are several points in common between the two levels of schools involved with respect to the positive impact of the laboratory, but also substantial differences concerning – depending on the school level – the greater or lesser habit of teachers to activate opportunities for collaborative work in the class- room supported (also) by digital technologies.