I giovani, le istituzioni e il contesto socio-educativo: un'indagine nel Comune di Battipaglia

My research project is about the problems concerning young people’s active citizenship competence, necessary to activate a social and cultural participation in the education of conscious and responsible citizens. The citizenship education can contribute to the improvement at the levels of youth involvement and participation, influencing the dynamics which generate processes of alienation from public life, with a consequent indifference towards issues of general interest. First of all, my research will describe and examine some of the most important concepts concerning the topic of participation, citizens and citizenship. Then it will take into account the contributions about the concept of citizenship, by T. H. Marshall, and the changes related to the concept of citizenship, driven by phenomena of immigration and globalization. In the second chapter, my research will concentrate on the school contest, on the role of the school in the citizen education and the idea of education as a social life experience, as John Dewey said. The second part is fully concentrated on the field research. .. [edited by Author]