In 2014 Save the Children Italia defined child educational poverty as the depriving of children of all ages of the possibility to learn, experiment with, develop and give free rein to their abilities, talents and aspirations. The construct has been detailed over the years, progressively shifting the focus from deprivation to potential learning, even in non-cognitive dimensions. At the same time, indices have been proposed to measure the phenomenon. But what is educational poverty for adolescents? Do the indicators selected over time measure dimensions perceived as a priority by minors? A research experience inspired by the Student Voice movement collected the voices of 121 adolescents from Fiorenzuola d’Arda (PC) in April and May 2021. Without pretending to be representative and exhaustive, the article introduces the evolution of the educational poverty construct, then explores images, experiences and meanings attributed to it by boys and girls, as well as directions of meaning suggested by their “adolescent gaze” in order to prevent and counteract the phenomenon in its multiple dimensions.
Nel 2014 Save the Children Italia ha definito la povertà educativa minorile come “privazione da parte dei bambini e degli adolescenti della possibilità di apprendere, sperimentare, sviluppare e far fiorire liberamente capacità, talenti e aspirazioni”. Negli anni il costrutto è stato dettagliato, spostando progressivamente il focus dalla privazione al potenziale apprendimento, anche in dimensioni non cognitive. Sono stati parallelamente proposti indici per la misurazione del fenomeno. Ma che cos’è per gli adolescenti la povertà educativa? Gli indicatori selezionati nel tempo misurano dimensioni avvertite come prioritarie dai minori? Un’esperienza di ricerca ispirata al movimento Student Voice ha raccolto, nei mesi di aprile e maggio 2021, le voci di 121 adolescenti di Fiorenzuola d’Arda (PC). Senza pretese di rappresentatività e di esaustività, l’articolo introduce all’evoluzione del costrutto di povertà educativa e poi esplora immagini, vissuti e significati a esso attribuiti da ragazzi e ragazze, nonché le direzioni di senso suggerite dal loro “sguardo adolescente” ai fini di prevenire e contrastare il fenomeno nelle sue molteplici dimensioni.
Finetti, S., Sguardi adolescenti sulla povertà educativa minorile. Un’esperienza di Student Voice Research, <<EDUCATION SCIENCES & SOCIETY>>, 2022; 13 (2): 240-263. [doi:10.3280/ess2-2022oa14800] [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/226228]
Sguardi adolescenti sulla povertà educativa minorile. Un’esperienza di Student Voice Research
Finetti, Simona
2022
Abstract
In 2014 Save the Children Italia defined child educational poverty as the depriving of children of all ages of the possibility to learn, experiment with, develop and give free rein to their abilities, talents and aspirations. The construct has been detailed over the years, progressively shifting the focus from deprivation to potential learning, even in non-cognitive dimensions. At the same time, indices have been proposed to measure the phenomenon. But what is educational poverty for adolescents? Do the indicators selected over time measure dimensions perceived as a priority by minors? A research experience inspired by the Student Voice movement collected the voices of 121 adolescents from Fiorenzuola d’Arda (PC) in April and May 2021. Without pretending to be representative and exhaustive, the article introduces the evolution of the educational poverty construct, then explores images, experiences and meanings attributed to it by boys and girls, as well as directions of meaning suggested by their “adolescent gaze” in order to prevent and counteract the phenomenon in its multiple dimensions.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.